mexican coke at costco

[MoonDawg]

      I have a Mexican bottle with ingredients
      Contains carbonated water, high fructuose, corn syrup
and / or sucrose.......etc.

[johnieG]

The label reads Cane sugar and or cornsyrup (blended) , but I know that Mexico has a cane sugar industry that insists on the use of cane sugar, plus they have imported cane from Cuba too. this drives Coke nuts! ( they prefer the cheaper/subsidized USA Corn syrup) plus Mexico has jobs at stake in the refilling & bottling plants & refillable bottle suppliers too.
besides enviromentally speaking refillables make more sense than one-way plastic made from petrol. but the bottles hate to handle all that glass & transport costs, etc. the bottom line is the profit margin per/unit.

I figure that with the event of ethanol based fuels, the price of cornsyrup will rise & maybe the cane sugar version will re-appear here in the states.

[loman4ec]

I wish that would happen. It would take us trading with Cuba again though. That is why it changed in the first place right? Over here in Asia all soda's are cane sugar. It is a huge difference. Unfortunately I live in Singapore now and they don't use glass here like in Thailand

[G.Pope]

Ya know that Michigan grows large quantities of beet sugar. The sugar you buy in the store in 5lb. bags is beet sugar. Big Chief, Pioneer, ETC. That used to be the sugar that they put in our pop.

Pope

[zosofan]

hey gang,

sorry it took so long to get back to this.  the label says:

"carbonated water, sugar, caramel color, phosphoric acid natural flavors, caffiene"

also, the price was $17.99

i grew up in michigan and remember the mountains of sugar beets.  i kinda miss that.

[johnieG]

hey gang,

sorry it took so long to get back to this.  the label says:

"carbonated water, sugar, caramel color, phosphoric acid natural flavors, caffiene"

also, the price was $17.99

i grew up in michigan and remember the mountains of sugar beets.  i kinda miss that.

Hey, you gotta drive up I-75 near Saginaw then! they're cooking the beets at the Big-chief (Pioneer) sugar plant, mmmm that one-of-a-kind smell in the air! ( for those of you who don't know what a sugar-beet smells like when it's being boiled/cooked to render the sugar out of it , think of boiling cabbage, rotten garbage & compost all together...Yum!) now picture a mountian of sugar beets about 40-feet high & covering about 50 acres or more...quite the sight (& smell) but hey, they'll tell you up in beet country, "that's he smell of suger & money being made"  amen bro'   

[Panamag8or]

I've said this before, but why doesn't Coke make a cane sugar version, sell it in the 8-oz. glass bottles and call it "Coke Deluxe" or something? How much extra could it cost per bottle... 10 cents or so? I'd pay that in a heartbeat. You'd think they would have gotten the hint when they saw how much Mexicoke Americans are buying.

Speaking of which, I have to go on a Mexicoke hunt tomorrow, since I refuse to use the corn syrup stuff on my Coca-Cola basted ham.

[darktone]

I have a Mexican store that will sell me a case of coke for $21. What are you guy's paying for it?

[halehouse]

Is that for the larger bottles?  Seems about right.  The manager at the one by me during the summer said $20 for a case of anything they carried.

[darktone]

Is that for the larger bottles?  Seems about right.  The manager at the one by me during the summer said $20 for a case of anything they carried.

 That's for the 12 ounce bottles. Anyone notice the coke is not coming in retornable bottles anymore?