In most of the world you can get Coke made with sugar. In Germany, if you want diet, you can get it with cyclamate.
Around here, in the groceries that serve large numbers of non-natural born citizens, you can have a choice of Pepsi, Dr Pepper, or Mountain Dew made with real sugar for the same price as the HFCS products, or pay a stiff premium for Mexican Cokes.
Seems to be a decided lack of intelligence in Atlanta these days. And has been since they had that Cuban president.
(See how I tied an apparent thread hijack back into the political story?)
Mexican Cokes and Pepsi with sugar are available at my Safeway for about twice what the corn syrup version sells for. I gladly pay it because they are so much better. I cannot say why, but there is huge difference, so much so that I will not drink a corn syrup soft drink anymore. They just make me feel bad afterward.