86 was a good year. I’m glad I laid down a case in my soda cellar.
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How about eating a Twinkie from 1956? 
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Yep, I’ve been reading that evidence is starting to show that HFCS goes straight to the liver to be turned to fat. It’s crap for us.
Find me one and I’ll eat it. Seriously 
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And now I know… Thanks!
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My brown fizzy drink of choice, Dr. Pepper, had or have them, too, but I haven’t found them in my supermarket for a while now. I try not to drink sodas too often lately.
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Because “freedom”?
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A clarification about the Mexican Coke from a guy living in Tijuana…
There’s a shit-ton of HFCS Coke sold in Mexico, in cans and plastic bottles. You have to buy only the Coke sold in glass bottles for the cane sugar recipe.
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I wonder if the cans and plastic bottles come from North of the border.
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I think I will prefer CocaCola of those days…Less Sugar
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FYI, if you are looking for that “real sugar” Coke without HFCS and you don’t have a bodega nearby to buy the Mexican coke in glass bottles, find a grocery store in a 3 or 4 mlle radius of a synagogue and look for the Coke 2 liters with the yellow cap. Apparently HFCS is chametz and isn’t Kosher for Passover. Granted this only works for a month or so before Passover.
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The cane sugar version of Dr. Pepper was the pinnacle of peak soda, one of the best mass produced soda ever, imho. 
(disclaimer: my second favorite soda is a grapefruit soda, so my tastes are a bit different then the average american.) 
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Oh look, I found a penny on the ground. I am going to put it in my mouth and swallow it.
That’s fascinating. And good to know. I’ve seen the yellow caps! I like how that article says it without saying it.
I think it’s the same the world over. Coca-Cola syrup is formulated in special facilities, shipped to whatever region, and then bottled using the local (purified) water supply.
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Good point. Now I’m really wondering how the Mexican coke with sugar remained that way.
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I would assume special-grade syrup? It’s just cane sugar isn’t it?
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I’m not sure if it’s cane or beet sugar.
ETA: According to wikipedia cane sugar, and intended for export to the US as a “nostalgia product”.
Huh.
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Now you got me looking…seems like cane in Mexico.
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Sadly, it all seems to be corn syrup here in China.
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