Good news for Pepsi Throwback drinkers

[ordinary_magic]

Here's a scoop: next week Pepsi will relaunch Throwback without the 60's style design. They've finally realised how much market share they lost to "natural" beverages since the no HFCS movement gained popularity.

Enjoy!

(Now, to get them to stop mixing beet and cane sugar for it....)

Comments

[droxy]

Sugar is sugar is sugar..

aprin is asprin is asprin..

I drink diet cola, wih extra chemicals..XD

However coke afficionados do claim a taste difference, and they make old coke in TX at an old plant. Use can sugar instead of HFCS.

[ordinary_magic]

Not all sugar is sugar to the metabolic process. HFCS and invert sugar hit the liver hard, so they are absolutely forbidden for me.

The beet v cane sugar is a matter of taste, though. I'm one of those weird people who really can tell the difference between cane and beet sugar in a blind taste test. Beet has a chemical/sulphur aftertaste to me, and cane has a salt-like aftertaste. Pepsi is mixing the two in Throwback so it tastes as if I licked a matchbook. But - for an occasional treat I'll take it. Makes a nice change to water and tea all the time.

[sabrebabe]

Actually, beet suger was used for a very long time until the US gained control of some of the cane sugar market after WWII. My grandfather used to raise sugar beets for the gov't all though WWII. So *that* would be the origianl sugar used in cola drinks, not the cane sugar (which was imported and very expensive when Coca and Pepsi were invented).

Just a smattering of history. :D

And I prefer sugar over HFCS, too. And I can't take the artificail sweeteners because they 1)taste horrible and 2)give me migraines. Stevia has a string aftertaste and I can only take in in an equally-strong drink lie black tea.

[ordinary_magic]

I understand completely. Aspertame (Nutrasweet) causes migraines and mouth blisters for me. When my family was Stateside, we were in California and Hawaii, so our local bottling plants DID use sugar - good old C&H pure cane sugar... hence the jingle that rotted my brain from their ads... C and H. Pure Cane Sugar. From Ha-wi-eeeee. Growin' in the sun. C&H, pure cane sugar - THAT's the ONE!

C&H standing for California and Hawaii, of course).

Be careful with Stevia. I had to stop my use of it because it screws up hormone levels. Older cultures used it as birth control to lower male fertility. It also affects oestrogen levels at low consumption. To me, the aftertaste as a slight petrochemical taste. I recommend it highly for people who don't want to conceive or who don't have issues where hormonal fluctuation could cause a problem. The artificial sweeteners are death in a packet.