Yup, the real sugar makes a difference. Canada and the us have roughly the same sugar in all the pop/soda’s but it’s corn syrup in the US so I mostly avoid them when I’m down here. It’s not even for health. I just think it tastes gross.

Canada (S. Ontario) here: cane sugar "Mexican cokes" in the glass bottles are v expensive, but in the winter lead-up to Passover you can get kosher (no corn syrup) coke in larger supermarkets. Hilariously to me, sometimes the 2L bottles also have the Santa Claus branding. Kosher for Christmas!

Yeah, we can get the Mexican sugar cokes in glass bottles here as well. Like you said, they are $$$. Sadly I’m not a cola fan. The kosher one is a twist though. Especially the timing!

Yeah, hard to get excited about corn syrup. To me the artificial is gross, it has that after taste that haunts me. Corn syrup is meh. Sugar is where it’s at for sure. They had more sugar versions around some years ago, and they pulled most of them. The throw backs were a hit with me for sure.