Janet Bostwick wrote:
>
> If you are interested, my Costco has cases of Pepsi with sugar called
> Throwback in white square carton for $5.79. Recently I saw Coke with
> sugar at Costco for $17 per carton. I don't imagine that the $5.79
> pricing will last forever. Check your Costco for prices.
> Janet US

Around here at least, Costco, Sam's and many other places always carry
Coke and Pepsi from Mexico which are made with sugar.

On 6/11/2011 3:42 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>

>
> Around here at least, Costco, Sam's and many other places always carry
> Coke and Pepsi from Mexico which are made with sugar.




And Mexican water, the thought of which is troublesome if you've ever
returned from a Mexican vacation with giardia. :-P

gloria p

On Jun 11, 5:20*pm, "gloria.p" > wrote:
> On 6/11/2011 3:42 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>
>
>
> > Around here at least, Costco, Sam's and many other places always carry
> > Coke and Pepsi from Mexico which are made with sugar.
>
> And Mexican water, the thought of which is troublesome if you've ever
> returned from a Mexican vacation with giardia. * :-P
>
> gloria p


Pepsi Throwback isn't specifically from Mexico. They make it every now
and then, presumably when the price of actual sugar drops to the point
where they can sell it at the same price as the regular HFCS stuff. I
love the taste of it better than standard Pepsi. Dr. Pepper and 7-Up
are doing the real sugar throwback thing, too. I hope it's working for
them. There is just no substitute for real sugar in soda.

"gloria.p" wrote:
>
> On 6/11/2011 3:42 PM, Pete C. wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > Around here at least, Costco, Sam's and many other places always carry
> > Coke and Pepsi from Mexico which are made with sugar.
>
> And Mexican water, the thought of which is troublesome if you've ever
> returned from a Mexican vacation with giardia. :-P
>
> gloria p

I can't recall ever hearing of a recall on mexican sodas.

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:39:13 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
>"gloria.p" wrote:
>>
>> On 6/11/2011 3:42 PM, Pete C. wrote:
>> >
>>
>> >
>> > Around here at least, Costco, Sam's and many other places always carry
>> > Coke and Pepsi from Mexico which are made with sugar.
>>
>> And Mexican water, the thought of which is troublesome if you've ever
>> returned from a Mexican vacation with giardia. :-P
>>
>> gloria p
>
>I can't recall ever hearing of a recall on mexican sodas.

Much of the soft drinks in Mexico are bottled in the southern portion
of the country, near where they grow and refine cane, and water is
rain forest pure. It's really in northern Mexico, especially the
border towns (both sides) where the water is treacherous. Last I was
in Central America all beverage bottles were reuseable glass, no
plastic, even booze bottles were reused... however many of the locals
would keep the bottles to fill with their own brews, tropical fruit
wines are potent and delicious... once you try cashew wine you'll
never pay big bucks for grape wines again.

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:42:55 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
>Janet Bostwick wrote:
>>
>> If you are interested, my Costco has cases of Pepsi with sugar called
>> Throwback in white square carton for $5.79. Recently I saw Coke with
>> sugar at Costco for $17 per carton. I don't imagine that the $5.79
>> pricing will last forever. Check your Costco for prices.
>> Janet US
>
>Around here at least, Costco, Sam's and many other places always carry
>Coke and Pepsi from Mexico which are made with sugar.

Mine did too. But not at that price.
Janet US

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:42:55 -0500, Pete C. wrote:

> Around here at least, Costco, Sam's and many other places always carry
> Coke and Pepsi from Mexico which are made with sugar.

I've always wondered about that. The carbonated water might be added at
the bottler in Tucson, or Mexico, or Japan, or wherever, but isn't the
syrup, which I am pretty certain contains the sweetener (HFCS, sugar, or
whatever), made in Atlanta.

Brian Christiansen

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:52:10 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:


> Have you ever even read the bottle? The part starts with "Bottled
> by..."
>
Sheesh. Of course I have. From wikipedia:

"The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889
where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then
sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive
territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North
America, Coca-Cola Refreshments."

From the Coca-Cola company's own webpage:

"Our Company manufactures and sells concentrates, beverage bases and
syrups to bottling operations, owns the brands and is responsible for
consumer brand marketing initiatives. Our bottling partners manufacture,
package, merchandise and distribute the final branded beverages to our
customers and vending partners, who then sell our products to consumers. "

The bottler is where the carbonated water is added, not where the syrup
is produced. The syrup is produced in Atlanta or wherever, then sold to
a bottler who adds the water, puts it in bottles, etc., then sells it.
"Bottled by..." does not necessarily indicate where the syrup was made.

Brian Christiansen

Sqwertz wrote:
>
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:27:14 +0000 (UTC), Brian wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 22:52:10 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:
> >
> >> Have you ever even read the bottle? The part starts with "Bottled
> >> by..."
> >>
> > Sheesh. Of course I have. From wikipedia:
> >
> > "The company operates a franchised distribution system dating from 1889
> > where The Coca-Cola Company only produces syrup concentrate which is then
> > sold to various bottlers throughout the world who hold an exclusive
> > territory. The Coca-Cola Company owns its anchor bottler in North
> > America, Coca-Cola Refreshments."
> >
> > From the Coca-Cola company's own webpage:
> >
> > "Our Company manufactures and sells concentrates, beverage bases and
> > syrups to bottling operations, owns the brands and is responsible for
> > consumer brand marketing initiatives. Our bottling partners manufacture,
> > package, merchandise and distribute the final branded beverages to our
> > customers and vending partners, who then sell our products to consumers. "
> >
> > The bottler is where the carbonated water is added, not where the syrup
> > is produced. The syrup is produced in Atlanta or wherever, then sold to
> > a bottler who adds the water, puts it in bottles, etc., then sells it.
> > "Bottled by..." does not necessarily indicate where the syrup was made.
>
> Nowhere does it say that all the syrup is made in Atlanta. It's
> preposterous to ship syrup to Australia. Sheesh is right. In some
> cases, it probably is made right next door to the bottler.
>
> And it doesn't say all that on the bottle. I was referring to the
> water, dumbass.
>
> -sw

I've spent some time at a Coca Cola bottling plant, and there were
separate huge holding tanks for "sweetener" that was pumped in from
tanker trucks. The filtration process for the water used in production
was quite extensive, even though the water source was standard US city
water. The water in the soda, or in the bottled water was definitely not
"city" water (as claimed by anti bottled water kooks) even though that
was the origin.