Damaeus wrote:
> In news:rec.food.cooking, "cybercat" > posted on
> Sat, 10 Nov 2007 15:16:52 -0500:
>
>> It's true. My dad was a route salesman for Coca Cola when I was
>> small, and took me along when he set up samples in groceries, showed
>> me how to adjust the mix to taste.
>
> Okay, Coca-Cola has a formula, and when bottled, that formula has a
> certain syrup to carbonated water ratio. There's a guideline for
> mixing syrup and carbonated water in fountain drinks. If that
> guideline isn't followed, the taste of the final drink is altered and
> it is no longer Coke. It might taste better, but it isn't Coke
> anymore. That's the point. However, thinking back, oftentimes the
> sweeter-tasting Cokes from fountains also tended to seem a bit on the
> flat side, as if the carbonated water wasn't right.

Sorry, but the formula is in the syrup, not the syrup/water mixture. Pepsi,
Dr. Pepper, and Royal Crown all have their own syrup formulas. If you use
Coke syrup at any ratio of water, you have Coke.

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Dave
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