Loading ...The system seems to make our stuff crappy, so we buy imports instead. They did that with US made cars decades ago. After 1970 US cars went down hill in quality. Same thing with Coke. They made it with cheap fructose. I heard we have so many Mexicans here that were used to their old Coke and started importing it for them. I’ve drinking it for many years. Once you start, you can’t go back to regular US Coke.
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One reason for the discrepancy in ingredients is a simmering trade war between the United States and Mexico (via Smithsonian Magazine). The Mexican soda industry has always preferred sugar in its beverages because it aids the country’s sugar industry.
In 1997, Mexico passed a tariff on high-fructose corn syrup to prop up the sugar industry because of the competition posed by corn syrup. The United States, which exports large amounts of corn syrup, did not take kindly to the tariff — they brought the case to the World Trade Organization, which ruled in favor of the U.S.
Five years later, Mexico tried again to make corn syrup prohibitively expensive. Again, the United States went to the WTO and again, the WTO ruled in favor of the United States. Even after these legal setbacks, Mexico appears to be doing something right to keep high fructose corn syrup out of their soda industry, because Mexican Coke which is exported to the United States continues to be made with cane sugar.
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