where i live cane sugar (or ‘natural sugar’) pepsi for instance are the same price as regular sugar pepsi
Right, but that is because the two sweeteners are about the same cost again.
They switched to corn sugars because it was cheaper at the time. (back in the late 80s or so? it was around the “new” coke time)
it was not that long ago up and at um with Jack and Ben got in to the numbers on how much sugar/corn sugar Coca-Cola uses and the costs involved. Even a 1 cent price difference turns in to millions for them.