Taco ingredients were pulled from a cooler, and so were the sodas and beers. ... Fast forward to today and Mexican Coke is far more accessible in the United States than it was in the late 1980s.

Same name, totally different flavor—these foods taste nothing like their international counterparts when made in the U.S.

That, at least, was the conventional wisdom until 2011, when a paper published in the journal Obesity found that Mexican Coke contained no cane sugar. Instead, the authors found plenty of glucose and ...

Mexican Coke tastes different than American Coke; after all, it’s sweetened using cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. That, at least, was the conventional wisdom until 2011, when a ...

Mexican Coke tastes different than American Coke; after all, it’s sweetened using cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. That, at least, was the conventional wisdom until 2011, when a ...

The distinct taste preference between Mexican Coca-Cola, sweetened with cane sugar, and its American counterpart, using high fructose corn syrup, highlights the global variance in Coca-Cola's ...

Kennedy said, “If you want to drink Coke, drink a Mexican Coke because they don’t allow it down there. ... despite both versions sharing the same core ingredients and production process. ...