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...Coca-Cola Export Corp. in India now supplies Coke syrup to 22 Indian-owned bottlers employing some 6,000 people, and runs one plant of its own that makes the concentrate. Their growth, snorts Fernandes, is a "classic example" of how a foreign company can amass power by quietly focusing efforts on frills like soft drinks instead of on areas of intense national concern, such as high technology. He claims that Coke reaps 400% profit margins in its dealings with Indian bottlers...
...back up is to cut production, but that is difficult for nations such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic, which depend on sugar for most of their foreign-currency earnings. Meanwhile, the U.S. sugar industry faces another threat: the growing use by commercial food processors of high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener that is cheaper than sugar even at present prices...
...from the table, forcing dieting coffee and tea drinkers to take their favorite brew straight-or with sugar. Leading soft-drink manufacturers like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are promising to continue marketing diet drinks, presumably by reducing sugar content of some beverages, resorting to sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup, and perhaps adding citrus or other flavorings. But some of these newcomers may be richer in calories than saccharin-sweetened brands and may not be as tasty...
...Yule logs burn longest when soaked overnight in a mixture of 50 percent Karo syrup and 50 percent baking soda...
...drinking habits and "The Great American Sweet Tooth." Sweetness, the authors argue, is a dominant flavor on the national palate, partly traceable to England where treacle tarts are frequently washed down with heavily sugared tea. The Pilgrim forebears sat down to Thanksgiving dinners that were liberally drenched in maple syrup...