gerber@latour.DEC (ANDREW S. GERBER) (08/05/85)
Ok, time to end the complaining... According to 1-800-GET-COKE, local bottlers have been permitted to substitute corn syrup for sugar in COKE since 1980. When Classic Coke was marketed, it finally gave them a chance to correct (or "redefine") the ingredients label. So nothing has changed. If your old coke tastes different, chalk it up to degridation in your cans or plastic bottles. As soon as I can get a bottle (glass!) of "Classic" coke, I will compare it to "Old" coke, and I expect it to be the same. Andy Gerber decvax!dec-rhea!dec-latour!gerber decvax!mit-eddie!mit-athena!gerber gerber@mit-athena.MIT.EDU gerber%latour.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
bbaker@cadsys.UUCP (William Baker) (08/08/85)
> Ok, time to end the complaining... > > According to 1-800-GET-COKE, local bottlers have been permitted to > substitute corn syrup for sugar in COKE since 1980. When Classic Coke > was marketed, it finally gave them a chance to correct (or "redefine") > the ingredients label. > > So nothing has changed. If your old coke tastes different, chalk it up to > degridation in your cans or plastic bottles. As soon as I can get a bottle > (glass!) of "Classic" coke, I will compare it to "Old" coke, and I > expect it to be the same. Will Coke that has been saved really degrade? It hasn't been that long since they stopped making the stuff. I don't think that it could deteriorate that fast. Coke Classic just tastes different! For whatever reasons, it does not taste like the old stuff that I have compared it to. Maybe they actually burned the old formula and Coke Classic is just what they could managed to whip up from memory. It doesn't taste the same, though. Bill Baker intelca!cadsys!bbaker
root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (08/11/85)
I bought a 2-liter bottle of Coke Classic last night here in Boston and the ingredients said "Corn Sweetener and/or Sucrose". Sigh. Maybe soon they will make it shorter by just listing the things *not* in it. Also, isn't o-cinammonol the active flavor ingredient in Colas? -Barry Shein, Boston University doin *real* important stuff here...
larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) (08/15/85)
> Also, isn't o-cinammonol the active flavor ingredient in Colas? I think you are referring to cinnamaldehyde (a/k/a cinnamal) which is the active constituent of cinnamon flavorings. It could be used in cola products, but since all of the formulas are proprietary in nature, only an insider would know for certain. Just for haha's, over the weekend I took some New Coke, Classic Coke, and Pepsi, evaporated the water, mixed the gunk with KBr, pressed it into pellets, and put in in our IR spec. All three samples were quite different, and I saw enough absorbtion peaks to make a mountain range. It would take a month of Sundays with a Stadtlers Atlas to even begin to guess what is in this stuff. The gross IR scan is too complex, and a preliminary fractionation would be necessary in order to get useful analytical data on what is in our favorite soft drinks. Our IR spec is sort of dumb, but if anyone out there in Netland has access to a smart IR spec, like a P-E 580B with SEARCH and PECDS, I would be curious to see some results. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York | | UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry | | VOICE 716/741-9185 {rice,shell}!baylor!/ | | FAX 716/741-9635 {AT&T 3510D} syr!buf!/ | | TELEX 69-71461 ansbak: ELGECOMCLR {via WUI} | | | | "Have you hugged your cat today?" | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++