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[Don Marti]

begin Rick Moen quotation of Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:43:07PM -0700:

> o  I personally dislike almost all commodity sweet fizzy water, 
>    because it's made with either aspartame, which tastes awful, or 
>    tax-subsidised corn syrup, which is just disgusting and bad for you.
>    (If you want to make me happy, you can buy me a large bottle of
>    Jarritos, one of the flavours that say "natural sabor", i.e., 
>    naturally flavoured.  Being bottled in Mexico, it's made with 
>    real sugar instead of taxpayer-subsidised corn syrup.

Coca-Cola bottled in Mexico has real sugar.  

Pepsi was only able to introduce the "Pepsi
Challenge," and beat Coca-Cola in a taste test, after
The Coca-Cola Company started letting its bottlers use
HFCS in place of sugar.  (HFCS is only cheaper than
sugar in the USA, where sugar quotas artificially
drive up the price of sugar.  It's a product that
wouldn't exist if it weren't for corporate welfare.
So bottlers outside the USA stick with sugar, and
many US Coca-Cola drinkers seek out the imports.)

There's a lesson in there somewhere for hardware
vendors who use contract manufacturing companies,
but I don't know what it is.

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