Mexican Coke Invasion imminent!! : microblogmemes

[-] Noerknhar@feddit.org 160 points 5 months ago

I'm not sure if this is fake or not

[-] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 147 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This. People have been using the phrase "post-satire world" for nearly a decade now, and it's completely true.

On the one hand, this is an utterly ridiculous thing for the President of the United States to announce.

On the other hand, I'm 90% convinced that it is true.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 22 points 5 months ago

We're also in the post-truth world, so it kinda doesn't matter if it's true or not...

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 55 points 5 months ago

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-says-coca-cola-agreed-use-real-cane-sugar-us-2025-07-16/

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 34 points 5 months ago

Reuters is more of a satire site than The Onion these days.

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 11 points 5 months ago

If that were a headline, it would've been better than what The Onion churns out thesedays. Reality really did a number on them.

[-] Archer@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Onion just needs to write in an AU where Trump is a bipartisan republican making boring Cabinet picks. It would be a hoot. Followed by sadness.

[-] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 92 points 5 months ago

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 42 points 5 months ago

I have peed on kids!

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago

That's a fun one to have in your comment history without context

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[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I thought it was the other way 'round..?

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 72 points 5 months ago

"We've never spoke to this man." - Coke

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

I'm sure the CEO got a call from the Whitehouse and had a brief, rambly word salad vomited at them over the phone, and replied diplomatically along the lines of "we will absolutely investigate that as a possibility" in much the same way you placate someone elses precocious child

[-] fishy@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago

More likely that Trump discussed real sugar in coke with some random person and his demented brain remembers it as the coke CEO.

[+] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 68 points 5 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 5 months ago

This is the math. They assume that Coca Cola won't raise prices, will import more sugar, raise tariff revenue, and they can have their cake and eat it, too.

Meanwhile, in reality, Coca Cola US already sells a kosher version with cane sugar for Passover every year. So they just keep doing that, bring 20 cases to the White House for a photo op, and maybe do a larger limited run with ads on Fox News for literally 1 day.

Once again, being an idiot has allowed T to negotiate a hard position and force someone to do something they already do.

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[-] ellieficent@reddthat.com 56 points 5 months ago

"Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar doesn’t make sense," said Corn Refiners Association President and CEO John Bode. "Replacing high fructose corn syrup with cane sugar would cost thousands of American food manufacturing jobs, depress farm income, and boost imports of foreign sugar, all with no nutritional benefit.”

Corn farmers heavily voted for Trump, but according to them they’re weak and stupid anyway, so now we just wait for the cost of Coke to jump due to importing sugar. ‘Course, he never said anything about Pepsi, so people just flock to the much cheaper Pepsi products and Coke goes under! Brilliant!

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 13 points 5 months ago

"Corn is life. Without corn in everything you consume, you will be sad and everyone will hate you. Drink delicious corn syrup for every meal."

-President of the lobbying group the Corn Refiner's Association

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[-] Joeffect@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Jump? Have you bought soda recently in the store? I haven't in years until my wife wanted some... Over 3 bucks for a 2 liter, and a 12 pack is over 10 bucks...

Last time I looked it was about 2 bucks for a 2 liter... And that upset me because I remember when that shit was less than a dollar and I'm not even that old...

Anyway

[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just get the supermarkets own brand of it. I'm mixing it with enough rum that you can't tell the difference.

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago

Well, it'll probably be a "new" version of coke with cane sugar instead of HFCS. New is in quotes because they already sell that product. They'll take the existing product, call it Trump Coke, or something, and sell it for four times the price.

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

He does anything to distract from the Epstein files. And his other failures.

[-] artifex@lemmy.zip 28 points 5 months ago

Won't the corn-growers be ticked off by this?

[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 33 points 5 months ago

Are we pretending that is something he cares about?

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 months ago

Considering he thinks the people that voted for him are stupid losers, he probably doesn't care.

[-] Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 5 months ago

also weak

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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

One can hope so.

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Looks like somebody's been buying up stakes in sugar cane production. Didn't they used to produce sugarcane on Epstein's Island?

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 12 points 5 months ago

Epstein? Are you still talking about him? /s

[-] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 21 points 5 months ago

Don't get distraced by this from the Epstein files

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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mexican coke tastes better because it uses slightly less sweetener and twice the amount of sodium. There’s a YouTube video by chemist George Zaidan that did a chemistry deep dive on the topic. The acidity of coke breaks down the cane sugar (sucrose) into fructose and glucose (which is the composition of HFCS). There is no difference in flavor between cane sugar and HFCS in acidic beverages, but there are often other differences in the recipes that improve taste. Most notably sodium content.

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[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 20 points 5 months ago

Yeah, he's definitely not trying to distract from the Epstein files...

[-] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

In coke, which is acidic, sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway in the bottle before you drink it.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

You can easily solve this by not drinking it.

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

Cane sugar has equal amounts of glucose and fructose though. High fructose corn syrup has more fructose than glucose which alters the taste.

[-] legion02@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

It's really close though. 45/55 for the type of hfcs used in soft drinks vs 50/50 for sugar. Not sure that's enough to throw off taste. Maybe marginally less sweet since fructose is sweeter.

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[-] TherapyGary 9 points 5 months ago

https://lemmy.world/post/33066947

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[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

I think its saying something when this is easily the best thing hes actually done as president.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

Mexico been having this since forever. Is Mexico our role model? How many decades before cheap government chocolate with no artificial ingredients?

[-] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago

Does this mean also production plants outside of USA?

[-] veggay@kbin.earth 16 points 5 months ago

@ijhoo@lemmy.ml yeah, so now Coca Cola will not only pillage so much mexican water (it's an actual terrible problem) they'll also be doing it with cane sugar now. Perfect 😒

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[-] Opisek@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Now I'm not saying that the em dash means it's LLM or at least not him, but I am saying I doubt he knows about it. The spacing is wrong, though, so maybe it is his work.

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[-] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Mexican coke (made in Mexico coke) is made with HFCS and sucralose.

There's is a federal tax on high caloric dense foods; and that's how Coca-Cola avoided it.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 8 points 5 months ago

Coca Cola US already makes a real sugar version that's kosher for Passover.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coca-Cola-Soda-Soft-Drink-Kosher-2-Liters/303954989

Sooooo, what's new here?

[-] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

It's not widely stocked except around Passover, IIRC because it's more expensive. Because corn subsidies.

I don't like Coke, and I stopped drinking colas altogether years ago, so I'm not exactly current on shelve stocking. But that's my recollection.

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 5 months ago

Broken clock moment.

[-] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Will maga care that he's literally taking business away from American farmers?

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Jfc

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 months ago

Finally, focusing on the important issues!

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