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Re: OpenCola

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Post by naremu »

jowdones wrote: post #36
bityard wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To my taste buds, North American candy, soda, and other sugary snacks have gotten twice to three times sweeter since I was a kid. To the point that in most cases, all you can actually taste is the sugar and nothing else. It would be interesting if someone were able to dig up a 30-year-old can of Coke or whatever and compare its carbohydrate content to modern Coke. (You can't just use the Nutrition Facts label, becaus…

That's exactly what I wanted to say. Both Cola and Pepsi are too damn sweet. On the rare occasion at the right temperature and amount of thirst on my side I can drink a 330ml bottle and actually enjoy the taste. But most of the times it feels like too sugary so either I drink just a small glass and lots of water afterwards or just mix it with carbonated water directly. Bottom line: usually feels too sweet for me. Lik…

I know it should be a warning sign to just not drink coke, but I've instead taken it as a "this is literally for filling a glass already prefilled to the brim with ice like in the ads" kind of thing.

Because undiluted coca cola is just honestly not very good, and extremely uh, I'm not sure how to put it, practically pungent

Re: OpenCola

#82

Post by supermatt »

doublerabbit wrote: post #78
supermatt wrote: post #74

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IrnBru is made from girders: https://youtu.be/SD3LippIN40?si=f7Bkqn9cmUNKD3PW

They replaced the sugar with aspartame due to UK sugar tax and what made IrnBru is gone. I miss Dr Pepper too, with aspartame or that other chemic it's just not the same.

Ok so recipe:

  Girders
  Aspartame (or sugar for orig flavour)
  Water(?)
I feel like we are getting somewhere

Re: OpenCola

#83

Post by doublerabbit »

supermatt wrote: post #82
doublerabbit wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They replaced the sugar with aspartame due to UK sugar tax and what made IrnBru is gone. I miss Dr Pepper too, with aspartame or that other chemic it's just not the same.

Ok so recipe: Girders Aspartame (or sugar for orig flavour) Water(?) I feel like we are getting somewhere

Has to be Scottish Water. Vastly superior to any other water in the UK.

Re: OpenCola

#84

Post by mrguyorama »

freedomben wrote: post #75
wyre wrote: post #53

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I learned/realized recently it's only because of the US's deeply entrentched subsidies on corn that allows for HFCS to be cheaper than sugar and why it's so heavily used in processed foods.

Same with ethanol gas. If not for the corn subsidies, it wouldn't be cheaper. Also much more gas is burned growing/harvesting the corn and electrical powering the process than is saved in emissions (there was a great piece on HN of this some time ago), so it's a net negative to the environment. It's so dumb it hurts, but Iowa is an early presidential election state, so good luck finding someone who will go in and tel…

The actual reason we stay on ethanol as a fuel additive is not about saving the planet: It's simply a good octane booster for the kinds of reliable octane you need in modern engines. Before, we had leaded gas which is bad, then MTBE which kept poisoning water tables.

In contrast, using 15% ethanol uses 15% less gas at a time when we were desperately trying to not be held by the balls by the middle east gas sellers, it's trivial to produce at scale, it was a simple handout to corn growers, which the US cares deeply about, and refineries didn't mind that it reduced the energy density of fuel by a couple percent, requiring you buy more gas for the same amount of energy, and it would never end up with a 60 minutes special about how it has been poisoning all of us for decades. We should have been using it the whole damn time.

Re: OpenCola

#85

Post by earthling8118 »

syntheticnature wrote: post #10
mngdtt wrote: post #3

It's really tough seeing the amount of sugar that this recipe has. Really puts things into perspective, compared to simply drinking the end product from a can.

When I was younger and drank more soda, I discovered I could grab a can of coke, pour it into a 24oz cup I had, then fill the can with water and pour that in and it tasted the same to me. If I focused on the flavor it was very subtly different, in a way that felt more refreshing -- but most of the time I was just drinking it without full focus and couldn't tell the difference. Back then I was also packing lunches for…

Interesting experience, but I tend to notice even a small amount of water mixed in. Different senses I guess.

Re: OpenCola

#86

Post by BenFeldman1930 »

doublerabbit wrote: post #78
supermatt wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IrnBru is made from girders: https://youtu.be/SD3LippIN40?si=f7Bkqn9cmUNKD3PW

They replaced the sugar with aspartame due to UK sugar tax and what made IrnBru is gone. I miss Dr Pepper too, with aspartame or that other chemic it's just not the same.

Moving to Buckfast, then?

Re: OpenCola

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Post by [deleted] »

throwitaway222 wrote: post #46

I can't stand canned US coke. I have to drink mexican coke, which is sold at Homedepot near me. They seem to be selling those at $1 per bottle pretty well.

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