Three day challenge

[MossRoad]

What about Old Milwaukee?

 

[MossRoad]

It is Milwaukees Best.

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Least expensive beer you can find I believe.

MoKelly

Natty Light and Keystone are usually the cheapest around here.

 

[Jstpssng]

What about Old Milwaukee?

That wasn't a bad beer, back when it was made by Schlitz. Then Strohs took the company over and I couldn't stand the taste. That was about the same time as when Coke tried to make their soft drink taste like Pepsi. Common lore says that backfired, but "Coke Classic" wasn't the same formula as the original, and still had that sickly sweet pseudo-Pepsi taste. The good thing though is that it got me to stop drinking soda.

 

[3Ts]

Coke used to be made with real sugar but is now made with high fructose stuff. Overseas it's still made with real sugar and you can taste the difference. I've been looking for coke imported from Mexico to try it out, but haven't found any yet. Of course the local water will affect the taste as well.

 

[the old grind]

'Sugar is sugar.'

According to science/medicine and the industry there are two kinds of HFCS 45% fructose 55% glucose (baked goods) and 55% fructose 45% glucose (soft drinks) while 'real' sugar (cane, beet) is 50/50 fructose/glucose. It's no wonder just about anybody can taste the 10% HFCS difference, I'm told even in a Coke poured over ice. (water is water?)

"People who have fructose intolerance should limit high-fructose foods, such as juices, apples, grapes, watermelon, asparagus, peas and zucchini. Some lower fructose foods such as bananas, blueberries, strawberries, carrots, avocados, green beans and lettuce may be tolerated in limited quantities with meals." Mayo Clinic

btw, the anti-HFCS biz is about cost to deliver and use, no statics ever given in ads. Dry sugar shipped in bags on pallets and poured into vats by a guy on a ladder has to compete with a truck or tank car and hoses from producer to end user. Fewer mice and roaches, less spillage, less 'shrinkage'. Not to mention that most HFCS is sourced from the US, while much cane sugar comes from elsewhere. It's about the money.

 

[Jstpssng]

'Sugar is sugar.'

According to science/medicine and the industry there are two kinds of HFCS 45% fructose 55% glucose (baked goods) and 55% fructose 45% glucose (soft drinks) while 'real' sugar (cane, beet) is 50/50 fructose/glucose. It's no wonder just about anybody can taste the 10% HFCS difference, I'm told even in a Coke poured over ice. (water is water?)

"People who have fructose intolerance should limit high-fructose foods, such as juices, apples, grapes, watermelon, asparagus, peas and zucchini. Some lower fructose foods such as bananas, blueberries, strawberries, carrots, avocados, green beans and lettuce may be tolerated in limited quantities with meals." Mayo Clinic

btw, the anti-HFCS biz is about cost to deliver and use, no statics ever given in ads. Dry sugar shipped in bags on pallets and poured into vats by a guy on a ladder has to compete with a truck or tank car and hoses from producer to end user. Fewer mice and roaches, less spillage, less 'shrinkage'. Not to mention that most HFCS is sourced from the US, while much cane sugar comes from elsewhere. It's about the money.

It may have the same effect yet it doesn't taste the same. As someone who tends to avoid sugar enhanced foods, fructose is sickly sweet when I do eat it.
Diabetes runs in my family and I'm trying to avoid it.
I allow myself one candy bar a month, so when I do have one I make sure that it tastes good. High fructose corn syrup doesn't make the grade.
I also have a soda or chocolate milk about that often, always when I need a quick lift. I can't believe the popularity of Mountain Dew: to me it just tastes like crap.

There's a soda called "Moxie" which you either love or hate. My father and younger brother loved it while I thought it tasted like bad medicine. They've both passed away so I bought a bottle one day thinking that I'd have to pick up the torch; they've changed THAT formula somewhere along the line, so instead of tasting like medicine it tastes like high fructose corn syrup.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Pork BBQ isn't Kosher!
As a teen we drank like crazy. One country store we would buy beer & wine the clerk one night asked me "son...how old are you?"
"15" I replied with a case of beer. "Well, at least you're honest" he said. One older looking kid would but 190 proof Everclear.
Back then sometimes police would follow me home "just drive slow...I'll follow you".
One cheap beer we got in glass gallon jars "Milwaukee"...not Old Milwaukee.
At 19 I bought a new car, then drove it off of a loading dock onto RR tracks in a drunken stupor. My Dad woke me up at 7am "there's a train coming through in 30 minutes, I don't know what you did or how you did it!" Luckily I quickly called a wrecker service that was close by and they got it out.
I don't miss those days!

All that rings a bell. I remember the cops telling me, son, you been drinking, you better go straight home. The DUI i finally got i had commin to me!

I grew up in beer town, I think old mil was introduced in the 60s, Milwaukees best was later.....i think. We would buy one 6 pack of PBR and 3 6 packs of old mil. Then Red White and Blue was the Pabst option.

An old friend said he drank all his life but never got drunk, he didn't understand why you would want to be drunk.

I explained it's not being drunk that's fun.....it's gettin drunk thats fun!

 

[MossRoad]

That wasn't a bad beer, back when it was made by Schlitz. Then Strohs took the company over and I couldn't stand the taste. That was about the same time as when Coke tried to make their soft drink taste like Pepsi. Common lore says that backfired, but "Coke Classic" wasn't the same formula as the original, and still had that sickly sweet pseudo-Pepsi taste. The good thing though is that it got me to stop drinking soda.

Coke started using high fructose corn syrup in 1980. The "new Coke" fiasco was in 1985. Coke Classic is the same formula as it was before 1985.

 

[the old grind]

So 'real' Coke has a 50% fructose sweetener and we can't tell it's there vs the other's 55% where it's so obvious no one would miss the difference. Perhaps we should all just stick to the healthier Coke.

And there are those who can taste caffeine or lack of it, even in soda or with cream & sugar in their coffee.

Not all of us have the palate that we should have been pro wine tasters, but most Coke drinkers seem to have that uncommon ability.

I make my ice cubes from distilled water. It's not because I can taste difference. Local bottlers also use local water, and ice is ice.

 

[MossRoad]

So 'real' Coke has a 50% fructose sweetener and we can't tell it's there vs the other's 55% where it's so obvious no one would miss the difference. Perhaps we should all just stick to the healthier Coke.

And there are those who can taste caffeine or lack of it, even in soda or with cream & sugar in their coffee.

Not all of us have the palate that we should have been pro wine tasters, but most Coke drinkers seem to have that uncommon ability.

I make my ice cubes from distilled water. It's not because I can taste difference. Local bottlers also use local water, and ice is ice.

I think we should consume what we enjoy.