[Darkwolf377]

It never tasted quite right to me when it returned as “Classic”. I can’t say for sure but I believe they eliminated sugar when it came back and just used corn syrup. The woman I talked to at Coke HQ said the only place you could get it with sugar was in kosher stores, and I did that for awhile, but now I’ve gone over to the dark side aka Pepsi.

[Welsh Rabbit]

It never tasted quite right to me when it returned as “Classic”. I can’t say for sure but I believe they eliminated sugar when it came back and just used corn syrup.

That is exactly what happened (although at first, it may have been a sugar/HFC mixture). This has led some to theorize that New Coke was just a conspiracy to switch regular Coke to HFC (by taking real Coke out of the market for awhile, a lot of people would forget exactly how it tasted with real sugar).