[Oshkalaboomboom]

Full title: Coca-Cola will sell smaller bottles at higher prices rather than alter famous recipe in response to the sugar tax

British Bloomberg Style Big Brother/Nanny State Alert. Truth be told, I thought Coca Cola altered their recipe ages ago and the only true version of it, made with cane sugar, was sold in Mexico. Maybe they meant to say they won't lower the percentage of the original recipe.

[windsorknot]

I like Mexican coke. Give me the cane!

[no-to-illegals]

This could get messy when the coke war begins

[rb22982]

They still use sugar cane in most of Europe too. The reasons we call it Mexican coke here is the distro we get of it comes from mexico

[null and void]

Just how sacred is the recipe? American Coke has corn syrup. The rest of the world has cane sugar.

If you want to fatten livestock, you feed it corn, just sayin’...

[AF_Blue]

In the UK, it’s probably derived from sugar beets, not cane.

[jonrick46]

Seattle is imposing a sugar tax on soft drinks. Now in effect distributors of all bottled and canned sodas, juice drinks, sports and energy drinks, flavored waters, sweetened teas and ready-to-drink coffee beverages sold in Seattle would pay a tax of 1.75 cents per ounce. It is one more way tax dollars are grabbed by the greedy Tax-o-cRATs.

[Moonman62]

Pay more, get less. It’s the government way.

[FreedomPoster]

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’’

— CS Lewis

[iowamark]

The new UK sugared drinks tax covers all sugars, not just cane sugar.

[Chickensoup]

When I was very young, Coke was sold in reusable heavy green glass embossed bottles that needed a church key to open.

They were about 10 oz, the perfect size for a drink with a meal or to satiate thirst.

they were stored in wood returnable open crates.

We really did recycle.

[lefty-lie-spy]

Ah, I miss me the Irn-Bru. It’s great soda drink. Japan actually has the best variety of sweetened drinks though.

[Fhios]

I quit drinking Stella Beer because they changed their serving size to 11.2 oz vs 12 oz.

[dangus]

The question is: Does the U.K. have a corn-syrup tax, or is that part of what’s being called a sugar tax?

[deport]

Coca Cola over the years.......

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/11-facts-about-the-contour-bottle

[Fresh Wind]

Kosher Coke for Passover (with real sugar):

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/kosher-coke-how-an-atlanta-rabbi-started-a-passover-tradition