Got a MtDew "throwback"

[dead0man]

The wife picked a couple up on accident at a gas station today.  They taste a little like diet soda.  I can drink it, but I'm not impressed at all.  I suppose I've been soured on corn syrup.


Now get in line to call me a heathen.

[bullmoose88]

I actually thought real sugar made pepsi drinkable.  Thumbs up to pepsi throwback

[Ebowed]

I suppose I've been soured on corn syrup.

That's too bad.  I don't know about other soft drinks, but Coca-Cola tastes remarkably better with cane sugar over corn syrup.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I haven't tried a throwback yet.

[Mint]

Hopefully they'll keep it. High Fructose "Corn Syrup" is poison.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Are you sure it's cane sugar and not beet sugar?  I think they'd make a big deal out of it to say "pure cane sugar" but instead it just says "natural sugar".

I didn't really know what to think of either of them.  I only ever really drink diet pop, though.

[minionofmidas]

Are you sure it's cane sugar and not beet sugar?  I think they'd make a big deal out of it to say "pure cane sugar" but instead it just says "natural sugar".

Beet sugar is cane sugar.

Saccharose, to use the scientific term.

[Ban my account ffs!]

Are you sure it's cane sugar and not beet sugar?  I think they'd make a big deal out of it to say "pure cane sugar" but instead it just says "natural sugar".

Beet sugar is cane sugar.

Saccharose, to use the scientific term.

I always understood beet sugar to be sugar derived from sugar beets while cane sugar was sugar derived from sugar cane plants.

They are essentially the same thing, but there is a difference.  Beet sugar likely comes from sugar beets grown in the northern plains and upper midwestern U.S. while the sugar cane sugar probably comes from decidedly poorer areas with poor land use, etc.

[minionofmidas]

Are you sure it's cane sugar and not beet sugar?  I think they'd make a big deal out of it to say "pure cane sugar" but instead it just says "natural sugar".

Beet sugar is cane sugar.

Saccharose, to use the scientific term.

I always understood beet sugar to be sugar derived from sugar beets while cane sugar was sugar derived from sugar cane plants.

They are essentially the same thing, but there is a difference.  Beet sugar likely comes from sugar beets grown in the northern plains and upper midwestern U.S. while the sugar cane sugar probably comes from decidedly poorer areas with poor land use, etc.

Well, yes.

But you're not going to taste the difference. Cane sugar was coined as the generic term back when sugarcane was the only plant to contain sufficiently large amounts of it to be commercially relevant. There still is no good, generally accepted term to replace it (except saccharose).

[??????????]

It's the same exact thing.

[Ban my account ffs!]

It's the same exact thing.

So is benadryl and unisom... but that's not what they want you to think.

[paul718]

You can always order Dr. Pepper made from cane sugar from the bottling plant in Dublin, Texas. 

Dublin Dr. Pepper