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I'm telling you all, the newly redoubled aggression against Cuba is about sugarcane so that Coca-Cola can cheaply put cane sugar in their trash drink.
i doubt they're gonna start putting cane sugar in us coke again. corn lobby would tear out trump's ass on live tv. they tolerate the mexican coke thing but i think fully switching back would be a bridge too far.
Convert corn overproduction to ethanol instead, simple as.
And upset the oil lobby?
Oil companies are somewhat famously having a few problems right now continuing to supply fuel, I think they'd be okay with it.
First I'm hearing of this
Sugarcane makes better booze
RED BULL GIVES YOU WINGS, BUT THAT CORN LIKKER WILL GIVE YOU FOUR WHEEL DRIVE
last july trump did actually say coca-cola would be switching to real sugar; after initially declining to confirm anything coca-cola said they would make coke with real sugar available alongside HFCS coke... which apparently happened in october in "select U.S. markets":
Has anyone actually seen this in person? As far as I can tell they only released it in 6 packs of 8 oz glass bottles in a few cities for a couple of months, interspersed with the HFCS ones on the shelves.
I haven't found any confirmation that anyone has seen a single one since December, either.
What if there were to be a night of long scythes and all the corn was cut down?
Marco Rubio brought one of those boards with photos pinned to them and string linking everything together to try to justify an invasion of Cuba to Trump before he realized he could just tell him that regular Coke would be more popular with cane sugar which means more diet coke for Trump.
Someone should tell Trump how much better diet coke would taste if they legalize some sweeteners that are banned pretty much only in the US.
I think that's just cyclamate.
yes that's what it says on my aldi brand cola.
You really think the US would do something like that? That would be like if they overthrew South American governments and installed puppet dictatorships all so that banana companies could sell cheap bananas back in the states!