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http://www.jasonhodge.net/?p=456

http://www.bevreview.com/2009/05/05/npr-all-things-considered-pepsi-mountain-dew-throwback/

The two links above take you to interesting articles about Pepsi putting out a sugar sweetened Pepsi and Mountain Dew -- as opposed to corn syrup sweetened.

I had written to Coke about this idea several years ago, but nothing came of my letter. I received a non-committal, lame reply that it was up to the individual bottlers.

There is a big difference in flavor and if you've tried Soho Cola you get an idea of what the difference might be were Coke and Pepsi to go back to sugar.

Now, if the sugar lobby were to fall asleep and the sugar tariff dropped by congress we might get permanently back to a better tasting product.

The Pespi product will be known as "Throwback" and will come in its own bottle --unfortunately not glass--but will be on the shelves only until June.

In the battle for shelf-space it's surprising that neither Coke nor Pepsi has already brought out a sugar sweetened SKI in glass. (At a premium price if nothing else.)

It reminds me of the auto-manufacturers thinking that the Beetle was a passing fancy and that the American Consumer would never buy a smaller car that looked funny.

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Not only is today Mother's Day, but also May 10th would have been my mother's 107th Birthday. Happy Mother's Day to all and especially to my mother and the mother of my children, Beauty.

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Buster