Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lasspvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!lasspvax!chu From: chu@lasspvax.UUCP (Clare Chu) Newsgroups: net.misc.coke Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <455@lasspvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 13:55:57 EDT Article-I.D.: lasspvax.455 Posted: Fri Aug 9 13:55:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 21:41:22 EDT References: <304@persci.UUCP> <26800003@hpfclm.UUCP> Reply-To: chu@lasspvax.UUCP (Clare Chu) Organization: LASSP, Cornell University Lines: 29 In article <26800003@hpfclm.UUCP> woof@hpfcla.UUCP (woof) writes: >> I heard that Classic Coke still doesn't use the old formula, that the label >> still says "corn syrup" (or words to that effect) instead of good ol' >> American red-blooded Mom-and-apple-pie sugar. >> >> I'm not a Coke drinker, but was just curious if anyone would verify this.. > >Arghh, yes. Ingredients from the Coke Classic in my hand: > >CARBONATED WATER, HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AND / OR SUCROSE, CARAMEL >COLOR, PHOSPHORIC ACID, NATURAL FLAVORS, CAFFEINE. > >It still gives the ol' throat burn, however. Does anybody have a stash >of the old stuff that can compare taste with the Classic? Are they >really the same? Can the taste buds discern the difference between >fructose, sucrose, and glucose? > >Steve Wolf Hewlett-Packard Company >{ihnp4|hplabs}!hpfcla!woof Fort Collins, Colorado Strange...here in Ithaca (boondocks) we still have those gold top cans that list sugar as the second ingredient. I haven't seen Classic yet. And by now my taste buds are so confused I don't know if these gold top cans that say sugar are old or new coke. My boyfriend claims they are old coke. And they're still selling it at the campus store... Clare