Living in America has all soda drinkers very used to things like sodium benzoate (to preserve freshness) and high fructose corn syrup in their day to day bubbly sugar water consumption.\u00a0 Down in the Caribbean however, corn is missing, sugar cane is grown everywhere, and preservatives are not something you are likely to find in anything you eat or drink.\u00a0 This produces an interesting opportunity indeed.\u00a0 One where a soda drinker can enjoy outstandingly delicious soda.<\/p>\n
My soda of choice here in America is Coka-Cola.\u00a0 Good old fashioned high test sugar laiden brown bubble water.\u00a0 Sadly the ingredients on the American version of Coke include things like “Sugar and\/or High Fructose Corn Syrup”, which to me indicates that they mix all their sweeteners together and at the end have honestly no clue how much of each ends up in each bottle.\u00a0 Presumably they mix them and the desired ratio ends up in each bottle or the flavor of a bottle of Coke would vary widely, and it clearly doesn’t vary much at all.\u00a0 Down in the tropics however, something wonderful was waiting for me behind that red label I know so well.<\/p>\n
At first I never even thought to look at the ingredients.\u00a0 I opened a bottle of Coke from our well stocked mini-fridge and took a sip.\u00a0 Something was very wrong.\u00a0 It was like Coke, but not exactly.\u00a0 It was delicious.\u00a0 Outstandingly delicious.\u00a0 I sat there with the bottle in my hand and felt a bit like a polar bear that just enjoyed another Christmas Coca-Cola.\u00a0 A grin, a feeling of peace.\u00a0 Heck, it was soda nirvana.\u00a0 I slowly twisted the bottle around to find the nutritional information panel and the ingredient list so I could see why this Coke tasted so much better than any I’d ever had.\u00a0 The nutritional information panel was entirely missing.\u00a0 No calories, no carbs, no fat, no nothing.\u00a0 The ingredients however was a shorter list than I’d ever seen on a bottle of Coke and revealed exactly why this bottle I held in my hand brought a smile to my face like no other bottle of soda ever has before.<\/p>\n
Ingredients:\u00a0 Carbonated Water, Sugar, Caramel Colour, Phosphoric Acid, Natural Flavors, Caffeine.<\/p>\n
That was it.\u00a0 Real sugar.\u00a0 100%.\u00a0 And no preservatives at all.\u00a0 To my friends at Coke:\u00a0 Please offer this recipe here in America.\u00a0 It’s so much better than the version you sell here I could hardly imagine drinking standard American Coke ever again, and would happily pay a premium if required to get “the good stuff.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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