Mexican Pepsi, made with cane sugar rather than the awful “high-fructose corn syrup,” and therefore far better tasting, is being imported for soft-drink connoisseurs, and US Pepsi is trying to prevent it. Can’t have delicious Pepsi available to North Americans, so Pepsi, using trademark and FDA regs, is trying to suppress legitmate sales. Note that the Atlanta newspaper claims that “the Mexican government has adopted policies that have encouraged the use of cane sugar in Mexico.” In fact, it is US subsidies and tariffs that encouraged use of corn syrup; Mexico allows the importation of Cuban sugar at low world prices.

UPDATE from Stephan Kinsella:

The Sam’s Clubs in Houston stock Coke from Mexico (in nice glass bottles) that has real sugar in it, for all the Mexicans here. I often stock up on it to serve nice Coke at home to guests.

UPDATE from Craig Rowland:

Costco in the Pacific NW also carries Mexican Coca-Cola with real sugar. That’s all we buy now. The corn-syrup versions taste really bad in comparison. We simply refer to it as “Mexican Coke” (but only in private). We’re worried someone may overhear us and send in some masked SWAT team goons to shoot our dog and arrest us at 3AM over the misunderstanding.

UPDATE from Thomas Mayer:

Not sure if you intended for your blog post to become a repositoryof “real sugar” cola locations, but I have a location for Chicagoans out there. Strack & Van Til. I recently heard about the Pepsi lawsuit and noticed glass Coca-Cola bottles in the “ethnic” food aisle while grocery shopping. Sure enough, the ingredients just list ‘Sugar’ instead of corn syrup. The taste is completely different and worth a try if you don’t like regular Coke. I’m glad Coca-Cola isn’t taking extreme measures to prevent their customers from buying some of their products.