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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