Mexican coke

[dr galaga]

My wife and I went to a small Mexican restaurant down the road.  I was immediately drawn to the pop cooler.  They had a bunch of Mexican soda that I could buy at the store, but they also had Mexican Coke in returnable bottles!  I took one out and I said how it's cane sugar and it's supposed to taste better.  I could barely taste anything different and my wife couldn't taste any difference at all.  Do the rest of you really taste a difference?
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For me the only difference is the hugely inflated price.
I think it's like the Emperor's New Clothes. We all believe it is cane sugar, but they probably slip corn syrup into it these days and meanwhile we all hem and haw over the supposed better taste.

[dr galaga]

There were some "nutrition" labels on some of the bottles (half-a**ed put on, most were only partially on).  The label said it was made in Mexico and the ingrdients said sugar and/or HFCS.  
Oh, and the freshness date said 31 Dec 05.

[DanV]

I can taste the difference. The Mexican is sweeter and less syrupy with a cleaner taste. They have them at Jungle Jims in Fairfield for 99 cents  for a 355 ml (12 0z) bottle. The passover coke even tastes better than the Mexican for me because it has the super high carbonation (burns going down when you swallow it). The little 8oz cokes in glass taste better to me than the cans too, but I know it's the same  stuff as in the cans

[glassbottlesrule]

I think it tastes better.  I buy it buy the case and the quality does vary greatly from one case to the next.  I'm a pop snob though.  Coke tastes vastly different from one bottler to the next.  Imo the best tasting coke I've had lately is 20 oz pet from the Detroit bottling plant.  When it's fresh it has some of the highest carbonation around and sometimes I swear It's sugar and not HFCS.  To me the difference between Cane sugar and HFCS is not so much taste but the mouth feel of the pop.  Sugar is smoother and doesn't leave any slimy feeling the way HFCS does.

[sodaworks]

I haven't drank a mexican Coca-Cola for a while now, but I used to drink them all the time. The mexican soda was sweeter. Now if we were talking "Tecate" (mexican beer) with lemon and salt, its the best way to wash down mexican food! '>