[Dr. Sivana]

So, if the tariffs were on sugar from the beginning, and we mostly had sugar in soda up until the ‘80s, we can go back to that. I remember getting Coca-Cola in 16 ounce leaded glass 8-packs (returnables) in Chicago on sale for 99 cents. The sugar could not have been TOO expensive.

[blackdog]

The domestic production of sugar is largely an empire of two families. Those families own congress. The corn syrup use came as a result of excess corn stockpiles and it was less volatile in cost swings. It's purely a commercial commodity and very friendly to process control in manufacturing finished products like jelly, soda, ice cream, candy, etc.

30% of corn stockpiles in the US largely sit and rot before demand catches up. Mountains of it just sitting outside in piles.