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2025-07-18 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [252 views ] Top

#1 I'm not a Coca-Cola fan, but Mexican C-C is cane sugar and it is better

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-18 01:08|| 2025-07-18 01:08|| Front Page Top

#2 ^A matter of habit. When I lived in US (well NM, but it's the same thing), it took me time to get used to cane sugar (and I never got used to adding sugar to meat dishes).

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-07-18 04:23|| 2025-07-18 04:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Taking the corn sweetner out of Coke?
Now, can we get the ethanol out of gasoline?

Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-18 08:43|| 2025-07-18 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Now, can we get the ethanol out of gasoline?

F-150 purrs nicely on non-ethanol. Costs a bit more, but I'm willing to pay for better performance.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-18 08:50|| 2025-07-18 08:50|| Front Page Top

#5 I believe that beet sugar and cane sugar are basically indistinguishable, beet sugar is the more dominant crop in our country, so you would more than likely be getting beet sugar in your coke.

Posted by Ulusons Pelosi8045 2025-07-18 08:50|| 2025-07-18 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, Colorado in particular. Hawaii has a cane sugar industry. And to be ahead of the leftists saying Trump was Jamaicans back on plantations!!11 the whole process, beet and cane, is modern mechanized.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-18 10:25|| 2025-07-18 10:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Anecdote: local quick shop offers Mexican soft drinks - Coke Sprite Fanta etc. and even at twice the price they can't keep enough stock on hand.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-18 10:28|| 2025-07-18 10:28|| Front Page Top

#8 High fructose corn syrup is a processed food. It's poison.
Too much sugar isn't good for you but hell, the human body is designed to digest it.
HFCS? No.
We banned the red dye made from petrochemical residue for the same reason.
No amount of money for farmers is acceptable if we pay with our health.
MAHA!

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-07-18 10:48|| 2025-07-18 10:48|| Front Page Top

#9 Hawaii has a cane sugar industry

As does Cuba

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-18 10:54|| 2025-07-18 10:54|| Front Page Top

#10 If he can buy Greenland, why not Cuba?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-18 10:54|| 2025-07-18 10:54|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm with the above posters in that beet sugar is perfectly acceptable!

Plus we grow a lot of beetrootsin the USA!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-18 11:03|| 2025-07-18 11:03|| Front Page Top

#12 High-fructose corn syrup vs. cane sugar in foods: The cost of switching ingredients

Corn industry warns potential shift could wipe out $5.1B in farm revenue

Maybe wipe out the middle-men

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-18 11:05|| 2025-07-18 11:05|| Front Page Top

#13 HEB grocery here in Texas has a line of real sugar soft drinks, and does quite well with them.
Ain't bought a Coke product in years.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-07-18 11:09|| 2025-07-18 11:09|| Front Page Top

#14 The corn farmers can just switch to growing beetroot instead.

No real revenue loss!

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-07-18 15:17|| 2025-07-18 15:17|| Front Page Top

#15 cane and beet sugar production in the USA is highly regulated

new rules on this came out just yesterday

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-18 15:38|| 2025-07-18 15:38|| Front Page Top

#16 Local Cantina has cane sugar Coke on draft,served in those old soda fountain glasses. Nothing better when it's °105 and carnitas tacos are on the way

Posted by Rex Mundi 2025-07-18 17:25|| 2025-07-18 17:25|| Front Page Top

#17 That...sounds amazing.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-07-18 20:18|| 2025-07-18 20:18|| Front Page Top

#18 Skid with any luck it our beet farmers in western Minnesota will pick up the slack without any problem.

As far as cane vs beet, pretty much identical.

In fact we have been using beet sugar to top off our beehives going into winter for decades. Less solids and 4 times the amount of peroxide (in the sucrose honey) which greatly benefits the bee gut over the long winner. In fact far better for the overwintering hives that nectar honey.

Posted by Woodrow 2025-07-18 20:45|| 2025-07-18 20:45|| Front Page Top

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