johnl@ima.UUCP (09/15/85)
If you really want the sugar back in your Coke, don't waste time bothering the Coca-Cola company. Write to your congressmen and senators and tell them that to repeal the price supports for sugar. The U.S. wholesale price for sugar is about three times the world price due to the sugar price supports, which used to make sense when there was some worry about being cut off (40 years ago) from foreign sugar sources, but are now archaic subsidies for the small group of midwestern sugar beet farmers. If Coke bottlers could get sugar at the world price, they'd never waste their time with fructose syrup -- see if any Coke outside the U.S. is sweetened with anything but sugar. Yours in free trade and the Real Thing, John Levine PS: On a completely irrelevant note, don't miss "The Coca-Cola Kid" at your local art movie. It's a scream.