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I’m not sure if this is fake or not
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.
We’re also in the post-truth world, so it kinda doesn’t matter if it’s true or not…
Reuters is more of a satire site than The Onion these days.
If that were a headline, it would’ve been better than what The Onion churns out thesedays. Reality really did a number on them.
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.
Inadvertently destroying the corn industry and the overuse of HFCS in foods made here might just be the only good thing he does, and it still wouldn’t be on purpose.
Except that we don’t grow sugar here, so we’d have to import it, and he’ll slap a huge tariff on sugar so now a coke will cost $15 for a 12oz can.
The US is actually one of the worlds top producers of sugar. We make about 65,000,000 pounds of sugarcane a year, plus all the sugar beets we grow. Also, the largest sugar refinery in North America is in Louisiana.
Now the goofball thing is that while it still isn’t enough for all the United States, we export thousands of tons. Mostly to Mexico, but also like Canada and Japan, while at the same time we import way more from places like Brazil.
That’s probably still a net win for the health of the US population though, right?
Completely on accident, he might actually improve the lives of average people if soda becomes cost-prohibitive.
Not really. After some time both sweeteners turn into exactly the same inside the can. Reactions channel on YouTube has a great video on the topic.
The commenter is saying if Trump drives up the price of soda, it’ll be a plus for public health. That’s probably true. Using cane sugar in canned coke might not make it taste better (which is surprising to me, honestly) but it will make it more expensive.
might just be the only good thing he does, and it still wouldn’t be on purpose.
He destroyed the bullshit TPP that was about to fuck over digital ownership with DRM , and that was by accident too,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Intellectual_property
He already did slap a huge tariff on it. Brazil makes up ~60% of the world’s cane sugar exports and realistically is the only country with enough spare capacity to meet the US’s needs. He just slapped a 50% tariff on Brazil because he’s angry at them for prosecuting Bolsonaro.
The reason they started to use HFCS in the first place is because of… a tariff.
Honestly a gigantic tax on added sugars in our food stuff would be great. I want that shit taxed every time the commodity changes hands - from the moment it’s a corn stalk or a sugar cane stalk or beets in the ground all the way through to when you are drinking your preferred variety of sugary drink.
Our food system is so broken and the financial incentives, and time saving ones, are perverse and pervasive.
I don’t want to kill fast food but I do want it to go back to reasonable portion sizes and it should be cheaper to buy a salad than a burger. That’s how our food subsidies need to be structured, not shoveling money into the meat and sugar/corn industry so the worst food can be the cheapest.
he’ll slap a huge tariff on sugar
He might also only say he will until the stock price is low enough to buy in, and then say he’ll exclude it from tarrifs.
We grow sugar in Florida. Not sure how much though. Probably not enough to supply Coca Cola.
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.
LLMs are a form of artificial intelligence, Trump lacks intelligence so it can’t be
You see surely the fact that Donald Trump is able to move around and find food seems to suggest that AI could be conscious. Since the bar seems to be quite low.
would you arrange that bacteria are conscious?
Don’t get distraced by this from the Epstein files
I think its saying something when this is easily the best thing hes actually done as president.
Yeah, he’s definitely not trying to distract from the Epstein files…
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.
Huge if true. I have seen notes about the cane suggar difference many times but never the reveal that it turns into the same molecules.
Why does the Antifa cover up that information? (Downvoters, look at OP’s username)
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?
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.
I also don’t drink soda, but I seemed to recall that a few years back Coca Cola did a limited release of the cane sugar version when they finally caught on to how popular Mexican Coca Cola was in the US.
But when looking for that, I found the regular annual stock of the same thing.
My guess would be another limited release, and when the average consumer balks at even the tiniest price difference, they knock this down to a trickle of a steady supply only to fit purely political/ideological demands. Keep a single bottling plant in Texas running cane supply 2 days a week, that kind of thing.
Yeah. Back when sugar-Coke was a thing (it was going around in popular media about “better” Coke being available around Passover) we searched around and found some and tried it. I couldn’t tell a difference, but that’s probably because I don’t like Coke to begin with and hadn’t tasted the corn-syrup version in decades so had nothing to compare it with. It was putting lipstick on a pig.
You’re right that Coke-Cola’s just going to fine ways to cut corners. My guess is that they’d start with sugar, but slowly start adding corn syrup back in in increasing amounts until it’s back to mostly corn syrup and some token sugar.
I haven’t ever done a side by side comparison, but the European and most African versions seem less shockingly sweet to me. Like there’s just an extra super-sweet edge to the American one, and more carbonation. But maybe I’m just imagining that.
That’s the corn syrup. There’s a definite difference; corn syrup is more cloying. Side by side, it’s easy to tell the difference. My comment was just that not even sugar could make Coke more palatable.
Lol, fair point
It’s not limited. Coke in the USA sells a knock off version of Mexican coke. Same style of bottle, similar labeling, but the bottle won’t be all fucked from recycling.
If your “Mexican” coke bottle isn’t beat to shit and you’re in the USA, odds are you’re drinking the American version.
Oooooooh! A deception!
What’s new is copying the Mexican president. He heard “cane sugar” in a chocolate bar announcement. Then talked to Coke about something they’re already doing.
Yeah, well just wait until he hears that cane farms are full of brown people. We’ll be back to HFCS in a week.
He does anything to distract from the Epstein files. And his other failures.
“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!
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
I just get the supermarkets own brand of it. I’m mixing it with enough rum that you can’t tell the difference.
Yup, I remember when 20oz bottles were $.69 and they gave out free ones with a cap. I mean, there was gambling involved in the advertising, but shit, even back then, that price was nothing. These days, even with my well paying job, a coke is 15 minutes worth of work.
“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
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.
Still in plastic bottles.
Pepsi already has a cane sugar variant they sell at the same price.
Also Trump: I’m putting a 50% tariff on imports from the country that makes the majority of the world’s cane sugar (Brazil) because I’m angry that they’re punishing their fascist that attempted a coup.
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.
Corn isn’t kosher?
I think it’s the highly processed part that isn’t? Im not entirely sure.
“Hell yeah! Make them pay for the border wall” -Conservatives… while also paying the 50% increase in Coke prices
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.
Mexico been having this since forever. Is Mexico our role model? How many decades before cheap government chocolate with no artificial ingredients?
Won’t the corn-growers be ticked off by this?
Are we pretending that is something he cares about?
One can hope so.
Considering he thinks the people that voted for him are stupid losers, he probably doesn’t care.
also weak
I’m so used to him being wrong about everything he says that it feels weird when he’s right.
