Comments on: Review: Mexican Coke

By: Joe L.

Joe L. — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:30:58 +0000

There's one in every crowd and I guess this time, it's me. I have been drinking Coca-Cola since the 1960s, and (for the most part) loving it. But I've always had an issue with Coke's consistency. Periodically our family would experience the displeasure of a six-pack or carton of "bad Coke." The "matriarch" of the family would not hesitate to call the local bottler and complain, and sometimes they would send out a driver with a replacement case. TO THE POINT (i.e.) Mexican Coke: I have been having great luck with Coke for more than a year, but I am alway leery of running into aberrant Coke. I expressed this on a forum, and was advised to try "MexiCoke." So I bought three Mexican Cokes from different stores. I drank one over ice (Yukkk!) and chilled the others for later. What a huge disappointment! Mexican Coke is just like the odd-tasting Coke I've been put of by for years! It's hard to describe a taste without using subjective terms, but I think I've come up with an olfactory image that closely illustrates "bad Coke/Mexican Coke." Have you ever run over a thick patch of dandelions with the lawnmower? The smell reminds me of "bad Coke's" taste. Now, the smell of violently rended dandelions is not an especially unpleasant assault to the senses, but it's not what I want to taste when I drink a Coke. Please don't hate, MexiCoke fans. It's just my opinion and sense of taste. But I will take the standard "muck we're stuck with normally (and which I love!)" over Mexican Coke any day. (The author of this blog seems to want to upbraid the Coca-Cola Company. I'm with you, though for different reasons. I just want'em to make Coke after Coke after Coke. . . .after Coke taste the same and nip those occasional "toxic dandelion" batches in the bud.)

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:10:39 +0000

Just Drank a Mexican Coke, Loved it, and it was right under my nose all along. Someone told me to go to a Mexican Supermarket, we have one about 2 miles away. After 5 years living here I went in. The first thing I seen was a Mountain of cases of Mexican Coke, $18 a case 12 oz. I read the white sticker, and it said SUGAR. Everyone loves it. I gave one to my 77 year old Mom, and she was shocked, it tasted like when she was a kid me too, I'm 47 so I had glass bottle sodas for 10 cents when a kid.

By: Jasen

Jasen — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:26:40 +0000

Check the ingredients. At least as of late, the nutrition label has listed "HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AND/OR SUCROSE CARAMEL"

By: Ronald Rollins

Ronald Rollins — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:31:10 +0000

Coke does taste better with cane sugar and in a glass bottle and why Coca-Cola does not recognize this fact is they think we dont care. Back in1985 they changed the secret formula to compete with Pepsi and almost killed the golden goose. If loyal Coke drinkers started a boycott of this imposter formula Coca-Cola would get their act together fast. Start a internet petition and demand that Coke take out corn syrup now or we stop buying it, eventually states will ban soda with corn syrup as a sweetner California will lead the way. And on Mexi Coke one thing comes to mind when you travel to Mexico dont drink the water i dont think they import our water for Mexi Coke.

By: Dynamicron

Dynamicron — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:13:44 +0000

LOL !!! I'm can't fit inside my house amazed and indirectly flattered reading the rave(??) reviews our humble Coke has garnered!!
I'm a heavy (3 to 4 12oz bottles) Coke fan, recently also indulging on Pepsi Natl (1 600mL PET daily) and yes, I noticed a strange taste
on US Coke, but never occured to me that tho the sticker does mention HFCS, it is in fact sugar, now I know. Well, I'm so glad that out humble product appeals to certain palates, and to the lady from Boulder who tasted a bad Monterrey bottle, it sure was left in the sun, as a Monterrey resident, close to one of three bottling plants, I have witnessed many times how the truck guys leave the doors open and tasted those Cokes, ugly. But when cared for as God intends, both 355mL and 192mL (remember those?) taste as nectar from heaven!!
Cheers! Mexican Coke is it!!!!

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:46:43 +0000

I was recently in the Dominican Republic and drank a Coke at our resort. It was out of this world! It tasted like I remembered it as a kid. They told me it was made with sugar. It's all I drank the rest of the time there. It was hands down better than the domestic HFCS version I was used to drinking. So good that I went out and bought some glass bottled Mexican Coke when I returned home. Sure I pay more now, but I love the great nastalgic taste! Pepsi did it here… why can't Coke?

By: Mike Cronis

Mike Cronis — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:34:05 +0000

Luckily, Mexi-Coke can be had at most small convenience stores, 7-11s, and WalMarts (ethnic section) here in Coloardo. Usually costs between $1 and $1.75 (for the 1-liter glass bottle). Tastes clean and great.

There's been a lot of HFCS ads lately insisting corn syrup is just as good as sugar health and taste-wise. Pathetic.

By: Riot Nrrrd™

Riot Nrrrd™ — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:42:15 +0000

I'm amazed there aren't more comments here!

Must be all the Pepsi lovers, I guess

Mexican Coke is worse than Crack! I buy 4 cases at a time at my local Costco (Burbank, California) for around $20 +/- (so it's less than a Dollar a bottle – at one point it was only $17.99 so about $0.75 cents). I go through them at a 2-a-day clip. I am totally addicted ("Hello, my name is Riot and I'm an addict … ").

The Coca-Cola and Pepsi people are on drugs thinking this stuff tastes anything like their HFCS crap. God intended soda to be drank out of a glass bottle, with pure cane sugar! Plastic bottles (helloooo, Pepsi 'Throwback') and aluminum cans leave crappy aftertastes!

I have drank Coke all over the world. EVERY other country/bottler uses pure cane sugar … EXCEPT in the US. It is all part of the big global conspiracy to ram HFCS down our throats just because in this particular country it's cheaper than sugar – much as plastic must be cheaper than glass. If Coca-Cola and Pepsi want to claim it's cheaper to use plastic and HFCS then why is it that in much poorer countries, they use glass and cane sugar???

For me, nothing beats a Thai Coke – it is insanely good. But Mexican Coke is a close second. Sometimes I get duff batches that are a bit more acidic (this also depends on where it's bottled; I noticed a Monterrey-bottled Coke I got in Boulder Colorado tasted worse than the ones I get here at home in Los Angeles from Costco).

Viva la Mexican Coke!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:00:26 +0000

If you're in the Emaaus PA area pick up Coke there…I don't know who the bottler is but on periodic visits to family there
Coke cans always list "sugar" as the sweetener, which is confimed by a taste test…Any local residents out there to elaborate?

By: RoundSparrow

RoundSparrow — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:23:15 +0000

Very old reply… but 355 ml = 12.0039781 US fluid ounces.