Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed?

Re:Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed? by akashs on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @02:07PM (#2222693)

Actually reminds me more of trying to split the vote in politics (or maybe just The Wire)

But I get your point on the decoy. Although that's an awful big game to play with a few months worth of Coke sales if they knew it in advance.

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Re:Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed? by Vivtek on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @02:12PM (#2222720)

I've read recently that it was cover for the switch from sucrose to high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener - when they switched "back" to HFCS, most people never noticed they hadn't actually switched back to the same thing. It's plausible, but as I'm not sure of the timing (I never looked at ingredients back then) I don't know if it's true.

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Re:Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed? by T-hawk on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @05:30PM (#2223666)

Debunked by Snopes. Coca-Cola already had HFCS five years before New Coke. Here's the link, and also follow the "Cokelore" link at the top for the whole category.

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp

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Re:Coca Cola's secret recipe revealed? by Vivtek on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @11:04PM (#2224902)

Man, I shoulda known better than to lend credence to that. This is what comes of failing to examine one's assumptions.

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