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Why can't you get good Coke in Ireland?

  • 05-02-2018 12:06pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    The only Colas you can get here are made with high-fructose corn syrup. I think it is safe to say Cola made with cane sugar is about 50 times nicer.

    Dealz and 2 Euro shops used to stock Jones Cola a while back, but they stopped stocking it for one reason or another (possibly due to pressure from Coke Cola and Pepsi?). They still stock a lot of their other drinks, like Blueberry and Orange and that. But no longer have the Cola. :(

    Mexican Coke is actually a thing, as American Coke is made with high-fructose corn syrup. Mexican Coke is made using cane sugar, and the taste is phenomenal.

    I don't drink fizzy drinks most days, but from time to time I'll get a Coke/Pepsi if I'm having a burger or pizza.

    I want high-fructose corn syrup to be banned, and all fizzy soft drinks should be mandated to use real cane sugar.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Squall Leonhart


    Might want to edit thread title to read "cola"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,796 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    I thought this was going to be an Eamonn Dunphy rant.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 504 ✭✭✭Vex Willems


    Might want to edit thread title to read "cola"

    Oh, I'd say he meant it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    I can put you on to my supplier, he can get you the good stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    I thought Irish Coca Cola was made with sugar and not HFCS? I have had "Mexican Coke" while in the US... I didn't think it was all that special. The standard Coke in the US isn't as nice for sure and fountain drinks are worse again. I might have a can of coke once every month or two so maybe I am not a connoisseur.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭Cunning Alias


    Keep an eye out for Fentmans Cola. It's fantastic. Tesco used to stock it. Last place I saw it was in one of the old Superquinns (Now a Super Valu)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 222 ✭✭Ted Plain


    Fentiman's Curiosity Cola is lovely. Can be hard to find, though.

    It's not a cola, but Bundaberg Root Beer is pretty damned good, too. It tastes mental, like a Deep Heat-flavoured cola, so it might not be for everyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Keep an eye out for Fentmans Cola. It's fantastic. Tesco used to stock it. Last place I saw it was in one of the old Superquinns (Now a Super Valu)

    Just checked the Tesco website there and it's nearly all Coke and Pepsi, except they do have one Cola in stock with cane sugar called Fever-Tree Premium Cola. So I will give that a try later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,521 ✭✭✭Wheety


    Glass bottles of coke are nice. Can get it in a few shops now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


    Wheety wrote: »
    Glass bottles of coke are nice. Can get it in a few shops now.

    This is true. All drinks are nicer from a glass bottle compared to a plastic bottle.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭The Floyd p


    Keep an eye out for Fentmans Cola. It's fantastic. Tesco used to stock it. Last place I saw it was in one of the old Superquinns (Now a Super Valu)

    Fallon & Byrne on Exchequer Street have all the range of Fentimans. Different size bottles too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,661 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Polish shops have Polish Coke. No idea what's in it though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭Chrongen


    Only fizzy drinks I consume are lagers.

    Cola is repulsive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Shluuurping ice cold coke from a can...is there anything better eh!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    frag420 wrote: »
    Shluuurping ice cold coke from a can...is there anything better eh!?

    Yeah a good shíte is better. Ya can’t bate a good shíte.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 761 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Don't know... wouldn't have a nose for it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭redcup342


    Can't get any coke but the Craic is great.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭jobbridge4life


    Pretty sure that Coco-Cola in Ireland does not use high-fructose corn syrup. That is an American phenomenon (tragedy).


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Allyson Proud Sociopath


    Pretty sure that Coco-Cola in Ireland does not use high-fructose corn syrup. That is an American phenomenon (tragedy).

    Yea the tesco site has sugar not hfcs on the ingredients list


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,796 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Pretty sure that Coco-Cola in Ireland does not use high-fructose corn syrup. That is an American phenomenon (tragedy).


    It doesnt. Coke in ireland uses sugar. But not the cane sugar in mexican coke.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,109 ✭✭✭Oldtree


    Coke is ****e, that's why you can't get good coke here, nor anywhere really.

    You want to be drinking one if theseeeeee :D

    1490656559288.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 495 ✭✭nails1


    I snorted coke once but got the ice cubes stuck up my nose


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭CerebralCortex


    HFCS is banned in the EU afaik. We're all fat enough as it is without that stuff (fructose is the good stuff if you want rolls of flab).


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,734 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Get yourself a Jolt Cola, as well as destroying your insides, it'll keep you awake for days

    joltcola-650x366.jpg

    It's a Titan in the Cola community.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,796 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    HFCS is banned in the EU afaik. We're all fat enough as it is without that stuff (fructose is the good stuff if you want rolls of flab).

    It is not banned in the EU. there is an quota on it though that is due to end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Get yourself a Jolt Cola, as well as destroying your insides, it'll keep you awake for days

    joltcola-650x366.jpg

    It's a Titan in the Cola community.

    Used to mix this with coffee powder when I worked night shift many years ago...speed in a can!!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 22,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭Brian?


    mloc123 wrote: »
    I thought Irish Coca Cola was made with sugar and not HFCS? I have had "Mexican Coke" while in the US... I didn't think it was all that special. The standard Coke in the US isn't as nice for sure and fountain drinks are worse again. I might have a can of coke once every month or two so maybe I am not a connoisseur.

    Mexican coke and Irish coke are the same afaik. They’re made with sugar. I don’t think HFCS is used in the EU.

    they/them/theirs


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I have a bottle of Coke beside me and just noticed the label doesn't say what sweetener is in it. I'm pretty sure only America has corn syrup though.

    The label says 'classic' which seems pointless. I'm unaware of 'new' Coke ever being a thing outside of America.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Hrududu


    Lol someone reading too many US sites and ranting on the topics even though they don't apply here. Oh Internet never change!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,060 ✭✭✭Greyfox


    Coca cola (boo to diet n zero) is the only cola worth drinking, couldn't care less what unhealty sh*te it's made from as it tastes amazing and i only drink it the odd time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 982 ✭✭✭barney 20v


    The op is talking through his ring piece ....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,454 ✭✭✭mloc123


    Brian? wrote: »
    Mexican coke and Irish coke are the same afaik. They’re made with sugar. I don’t think HFCS is used in the EU.

    Agreed.. both use sugar afaik. A few hipster style places in Dublin were selling imported mexican coke a few years back which I found funny, since the standard stuff here is much the same.

    I have seen places sell non Irish bottles coke, with Arabic looking writing on the label... Tastes like a melted Mr freeze


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭monkeysnapper


    All its fecking good for is cleaning toilets . !!!!

    Why would anyone put that muck into themselves.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,683 ✭✭✭Subcomandante Marcos


    US coke uses HFCS because there's a massive surplus of corn in the US due to subsidised corn farming. It wouldn't make sense to us it in Europe, where we don't grow much maize or in Mexico where almost all of the maize is either used directly in food production because it's one of their staple foods, or used in the production of sh*ty domestic lager brands or used by AB-Inbev to make Budweiser.

    Mexico also has a cheap sugarcane industry, whiles Europe has relatively cheap beer sugar.

    In short, the only drinks with HFCS in Ireland are the various forms of coke those specialist sweet shops sell imported from the us and other imported American drinks like root beers.

    At the end of the day it's all just sugar though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭massy086


    The only cola that's matters 😂😂


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Tommy Kelly


    Mighty coke in Athlone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Beanntraigheach


    Get yourself some Buzz Cola



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,288 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    The only Colas you can get here are made with high-fructose corn syrup. I think it is safe to say Cola made with cane sugar is about 50 times nicer.
    ...

    I want high-fructose corn syrup to be banned, and all fizzy soft drinks should be mandated to use real cane sugar.
    WTF ?

    corn syrup is a USA thing, meant to subsidise farmers , it has practically zero nutritional value ( they add vitamins to corn flakes because they are obliged to by law - corn is that poor a food )

    coke is bottled here so I'd assumed they'd use the cheap locally available sucrose rather than importing something made from GMO corn

    all moot anyway as the UK sugar tax will change lots of formulas


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭Noveight


    Orange Lucozade was my go-to fizzy drink before they took the fun out of it but I've always had a soft spot for Dr Pepper, which I assume is a cola. I have a couple of bottles a year, far from an expert tbh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭BalcombeSt4


    Because it's all cut with sveral different sunbstances. A lof is cut with really high mg's of Caffeine, like 4,000 mg. Also cut with stuf likre PCP,MDMA, Mehpadrone etc....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,591 ✭✭✭DesperateDan


    I knew a dude from Cuba once that said the cola there was the best he'd ever had. Glass bottles only, Cuban sugar cane, obviously no Coca-cola in sight.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Skedaddle


    Irish versions of Coca-Cola and Pepsi and most soft drinks are made with normal sugar the same as you'll find in a sugar bowl, not high fructose corn syrup. Are you sure you're not confusing this with the USA ? HFCS is quite unusual in Europe as a sweetener in soft drinks.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Might want to edit thread title to read "cola"
    Oh, I'd say he meant it.

    The OP explicitly capitalised the c in coke so is clearly only referring to the proper noun, Coke, that is the product of the Coca Cola Company. If he/she meant the drug it would be a common noun and thus not be capitalised, coke.
    The word Coke is a trademark of the Coca-Cola Company. It is a proper noun and should always be capitalized. The word coke, meaning either cocaine or a by-product of coal or oil distillation, is not a proper noun and should not be capitalized except as normal English-language capitalization rules dictate. (Coke v. coke)

    Capitalisation of proper and common nouns


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    You cant beat the real thing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,955 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Love cans of Coke and Pepsi myself

    Do they still make RC Cola ???

    The lidl/Aldi coke is not too bad

    Never seen Jolt cola around love to try it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭bilbot79


    Wheety wrote: »
    Glass bottles of coke are nice. Can get it in a few shops now.

    Especially on a ski slope at lunchtime


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭Boscoirl


    Irish coke is nicer than Uk Coke

    Irish coke is nicer than Irish Pepsi

    US Pepsi is nicer than US Coke.


    They all go well with JD


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,351 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Can you still get Red Bull Cola anywhere? That stuff was delish.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Realises thread is actually about coca cola and exits quickly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Anyone else miss Coke Life?


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