Jill, the very Mexico-oriented grocery store around the corner from me in Houston actually reimports that Coke from Mexico. I didn’t know it contains sugar; I’ll have to try it. Or maybe not… I don’t need anything to further my soft drink addiction, which is mostly to those awful diet versions. Still, it is tempting…
]]>Houston has a Coca-Cola bottling plant, and there’s no drought here… yet… so if your object is to drink something out of cans with the Coke label, the goods will probably continue to be available. Warning: it doesn’t taste like the alleged real thing. The best thing about the Houston plant is the topiary old-fashioned Coke bottle growing in front of the building; I must post a picture of it someday. Symbolically, the topiary is beginning to lose its shape.
One of my very earliest memories is of walking to the corner grocery store with my father, where he treated me to a Coke in one of those glass bottles you describe so well. That must have been 55 or 56 years ago, and the memory is with me to this day. I attribute my shameful addiction to soft drinks today to my unquenched thirst for that first remembered Coke. It is my vain attempt to recapture that satisfaction.
]]>I hate HFCS and can taste the difference. I stay with cane sugar even though the difference isn’t very noticeable, it is there in cooking.
I have a friend who is a collector, and having working in a grocery store all her life, she has quite a mass of things that were used in advertising over the years, including special edition bottles.
If the drought doesn’t break, Coke isn’t going to have a choice, and will have to move the bottling plant.
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