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  • Closure of Sugar Refinery Brings End to New York City Suburb’s Working Waterfront (Yonkers NY)

    06/27/2025 8:33:51 AM PDT · by texas booster · 32 replies
    gCaptain ^ | June 26 2025 | Mike Schuler
    The historic Domino sugar refinery in Yonkers, New York will cease operations by the end of this year. The closure of the 130-year-old plant will bring an end to barge and bulk ship deliveries to this section of the Hudson, continuing a de-industrialization trend along the river that has been underway for decades. ASR Group announced the closure on Friday in a recent press release detailing consolidation of the sugar refiner’s operations in the northeast United States. The company is “making strategic operational investments and optimizations to its U.S. business,” according to the statement. As of last year, the Yonkers...
  • Kosher-for-Passover Coke and Pepsi Are Back! (Made with real sugar, not high fructose corn syrup.)

    03/05/2009 10:53:13 PM PST · by neverdem · 20 replies · 1,729+ views
    Serious Eats ^ | April 18, 2008 | Erin Zimmer
    L'Chaim! Stock Up Now! Photograph courtesy of mhaithaca While bread gets cracker-ified during Passover, chosen bottles of soda get stripped of their high-fructose corn syrup and are sweetened instead with the real deal. No need to hunt for imported Mexican colas or hitch a ride south of the border for the cane sugar cola that tastes so great. That's right: Passover Coke is here! (Or Passover Pepsi, if you're on that side of the Cola War.) Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi make a real-sugar version around this time of year, and you can find it by looking for yellow caps on...