I’m not some crazy nut about to go off on food and beverage companies for using high-fructose corn syrup as their primary sweetener to drive down costs because it’s “unnatural”. It’s a business decision, and a highly profitable move at that. It’s the reason for the whole “New Coke” fiasco from the 1980s. I am going off on them for trying to tell me that it tastes the same as cane sugar. To borrow an expression I’ve found from across the pond, bollocks!
You fucking food and drink guys should go suck an egg for trying to force feed me the crap about there being no difference. I know the difference, I’ve tasted the difference, and y’all are full of shit. If I like cane sugar in my drinks like they used to be, give me that option. I’d like to order something from the manufacturer once in a while that has actual sugar instead of a syrup that doesn’t taste the same. Sugar has more zip, zap, pizzazz; a slight burn even. Nothing about HFCS makes my taste buds do back-flips or even bother rolling out of bed. With corn syrup, my taste-buds look over at the coyote ugly beside them and instead of gnawing off the arm to escape and the second one later on to avoid detection, they just break the glass of water on the nightstand and slit their own throats. I drink the drinks not because they’re good, but because they’re tolerable and I need something with flavor. I drink a lot of juices, but I like my soft-drinks too. I’d much rather seek out items without the syrup, but I’m a bit tired of contacting small manufacturers from hundreds of miles away just to get a couple bottles. Gimme the fucking option dammit!
I understand you must turn a profit, but you mustn’t always maximize profits at the cost of all quality in the product; yes, I can speak your jargon too. I don’t care if you want me to place an order for a “special” version of a drink; I’ll do it to get a proper Barq’s. I look at all the nation-wide vendors in disgust that every fucking one of them has pulled the same move. Go to Mexico and try a Sprite or 7up. Hell, go to China and do the same. It tastes far better than the crap we get here in the states. The gall of Coke and Pepsi, being the two largest companies in this game, trying to tell me they know what my taste-buds say is insulting. If they won’t give me the option, I’ll continue seeking out the little guys. I don’t care if they keep HFCS in the drinks; I just want my cane sugar option. Oh, and the “natural flavorings” bullshit I’m seeing on the cans is a nice try at avoiding the issue, dicks. Just give me the option to somehow get my drinks with cane sugar without the need to import it from Mexico already. Customs is really busting my balls on this one.
November 6th, 2009 12:01 pm
Kind of off topic, but still in the range of sugar: Do you know what happens when you eat 11 packets of sugar in the raw, commonly available at starbucksand hotel restaurants? Well my friend did it and it’s pretty funny and goes away pretty quickly so my point is you should try it on someone or yourself sometime.