Mexican Coca-Cola
Remember back in April, 1985 (yes, I know, you weren't even born then; bear with me) when the Coca-Cola company released "New Coke?" The "New" was partly a switch from using cane sugar as a sweetener to using high fructose corn syrup—the first change to the basic "secret recipe" since 1886. The idea, spurred by the popularity of Diet Coke, and of Pepsi, was to create a Coke that was closer to the taste of Diet Coke and Pepsi. There were cries of outrage, and eventually, even Coca-cola heard them, and in July of 1985 released "Classic Coke" which was, ostensibly a restoration of the "old" recipe (not the really old recipe that had cocaine . . . that stopped being produced in 1903). The truth is that Coca-Cola, well before the introduction of New Coke, had already started cutting the cane sugar with high fructose corn syrup. By the time New Coke was released, they'd already stopped using cane sugar.
