Why can't you get good Coke in Ireland?

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 05-02-2018 12:06pm #1

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.

Squall Leonhart · 05-02-2018 12:10pm

Might want to edit thread title to read "cola"

ohnonotgmail · 05-02-2018 12:12pm

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

Vex Willems · 05-02-2018 12:13pm

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Might want to edit thread title to read "cola"

Oh, I'd say he meant it.

jamesbere · 05-02-2018 12:15pm

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

mloc123 · 05-02-2018 12:16pm

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.

Cunning Alias · 05-02-2018 12:18pm

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)

Ted Plain · 05-02-2018 12:28pm

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.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 05-02-2018 12:32pm

Cunning Alias wrote: »

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.

Wheety · 05-02-2018 12:34pm

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

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 05-02-2018 12:38pm

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.

The Floyd p · 05-02-2018 12:48pm

Cunning Alias wrote: »

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.

kneemos · 05-02-2018 1:41pm

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

Chrongen · 05-02-2018 1:47pm

Only fizzy drinks I consume are lagers.

Cola is repulsive.

frag420 · 05-02-2018 1:53pm

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

Cee-Jay-Cee · 05-02-2018 2:04pm

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.

Vita nova · 05-02-2018 2:05pm

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

redcup342 · 05-02-2018 2:07pm

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

jobbridge4life · 05-02-2018 2:20pm

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

05-02-2018 2:35pm

jobbridge4life wrote: »

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

ohnonotgmail · 05-02-2018 2:38pm

jobbridge4life wrote: »

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.

Oldtree · 05-02-2018 2:40pm

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

You want to be drinking one if theseeeeee

nails1 · 05-02-2018 2:41pm

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

CerebralCortex · 05-02-2018 2:42pm

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).

Boom_Bap · 05-02-2018 2:55pm

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

It's a Titan in the Cola community.

ohnonotgmail · 05-02-2018 2:57pm

CerebralCortex wrote: »

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.

frag420 · 05-02-2018 4:00pm

Boom_Bap wrote: »

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

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!!

Brian? · 05-02-2018 4:25pm

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.

Irish Guitarist · 05-02-2018 4:53pm

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.

Hrududu · 05-02-2018 5:23pm

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

Greyfox · 05-02-2018 6:12pm

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

barney 20v · 05-02-2018 6:16pm

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

mloc123 · 05-02-2018 6:39pm

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

monkeysnapper · 05-02-2018 6:45pm

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

Why would anyone put that muck into themselves.

Subcomandante Marcos · 05-02-2018 6:48pm

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.

massy086 · 05-02-2018 7:01pm

The only cola that's matters ðŸ˜‚ðŸ˜‚

Tommy Kelly · 05-02-2018 7:56pm

Mighty coke in Athlone.

Beanntraigheach · 05-02-2018 10:29pm

Get yourself some Buzz Cola

Capt'n Midnight · 05-02-2018 10:35pm

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

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

Noveight · 05-02-2018 10:39pm

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.

BalcombeSt4 · 05-02-2018 10:46pm

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....

DesperateDan · 05-02-2018 10:53pm

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.

Skedaddle · 05-02-2018 10:57pm

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.

05-02-2018 11:30pm

Squall Leonhart wrote: »

Might want to edit thread title to read "cola"

Vex Willems wrote: »

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