Coke Life - it's official

[Roadrunner75]

The Market rejected it, as it is rejecting the 10 line from Dr Pepper, because people either want a diet drink or a non-diet drink.

Wasn't Dr. Pepper Ten the one marketed as being "not for women"? I think that explicitly shunning a solid 50% of your potential customer base with your marketing is probably higher up there on the list of reasons why Dr. Pepper Ten is failing than anything to do with the actual product.

Dr. Pepper 10 was OK, but Diet Dr. Pepper actually true to advertising tastes pretty close to regular Dr. Pepper, so I'm not sure a mid-grade version is even necessary.

[Alps]

The rap on HFCS is just another symptom of people's willingness to fall for junk science.  There is no real evidence that either anyone can, in a truly scientific test, tell the difference; nor that it has any health effects different from "real" sugar.

You eat and drink too much, you get fat. Pretty much that simple. 

Metabolize different? Sure, I agree with you. The science shows it's the same health-wise as sucrose. But taste wise there's a HUGE difference between sucrose and HFCS.

I prefer HFCS Coke to sugar Coke. It has a smoother taste instead of a grainier taste. It's hard to describe but I know what I like. The problems with HFCS are twofold: one, it makes us grow a lot of corn, which is a terrible crop to grow and displaces our staple crops, which increases prices all around and puts more of our tax dollars into corn subsidies instead of letting farmers grow things that the market really demands. Two, I forget exactly why, but you end up consuming more sugar through HFCS products than sugar products. Something either about the HFCS hides the sweetness so you eat more sugar per sweetness unit, or that some chemical coming out of the corn stimulates you to want to eat more than cane sugar does. I think.
I know people who won't eat HFCS. I don't care. But I don't eat artificial colors or flavors by and large, and most people do. And I definitely won't eat any ingredients that I haven't heard of.

[Pete from Boston]

The problems with HFCS are twofold: one, it makes us grow a lot of corn, which is a terrible crop to grow and displaces our staple crops, which increases prices all around and puts more of our tax dollars into corn subsidies instead of letting farmers grow things that the market really demands.

It's also becoming very difficult to grow corn whose genes do not contain the "intellectual property" of large agribusiness, making small farmers financial vassals of those firms by simple shifts in the pollen-carrying wind.  Corn is a dirty business that keeps a lot of rich lawyers rich.