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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
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Subject: Re: Re: Classic Coke vs. Original Coke
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Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 10:11:32 EDT
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> > It may be that the only place you can buy the pre-1980 formula Coke will be
> > in Hawaii.  Here, liquid sugar is readily available from a local sugar
> > refinery -- at a slightly lower cost than shipping in corn syrup sweetener.
> Since the coke(tm) syrup in the world is made at coke's
> main plant in Atlanta, GA, the price of sugar in Hawaii doesn't
> mean anything.  The only thing the bottling plants put in the
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> soup is the carbonated water.  Maybe as they used to say for
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> Oly, "It's in the water." :-)

	NO WAY!  The 'flavoring agent' for Coke and Pepsi both come as a *two*
part mixture in plastic 5-gallon pails.  The 'A' and 'B' flavoring agents are
mixed with locally obtained liquid sugar [I use this term in general] in batch
tanks.  The resultant mixture is then tested for color using comparison tubes,
tested for pH, and tested for 'sugar' content using a refractometer.  This
syrup is then metered with demineralized, dechlorinated water and then it flows
to a carbonator where it is chilled and mixed with CO2.
	Bottling plants get their liquid sugar in 5,000 gallon tank trucks. The
liquid sugar accounts for the vast majority of the syrup weight.  The reason
why complete syrup is not distributed by Coke and Pepsi is simple - the high
cost of freight.
	I have done some process control work for the beverage industry, and
I know the above for a fact.

	Larry Lippman
	Recognition Research Corp.
	Clarence, New York
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