Surprisingly terrible food match

[Levi Dalton]

I had a Mexican coke last evening with my pork buns, and it completey ruined the flavors involved. I almost never drink sodas, and I was sort of taken aback by how radically this one changed my perception of a dish I know well. My mouth was sort of covered with gloss. Also, the sugar sort of zapped me.

I'd never had a Mexican coke before. I was left wondering if people who regularly drink sodas have a whole other sense of cuisine.

I guess you could read the above as some sort of joke, but it isn't. I was perversly awed by the damage done by the beverage.

 

[Rahsaan]

I haven't drunk much soda since my college days, but even then it wasn't something I would drink with a meal.

I guess lots of folks drink soda with hamburgers (not something in which I partake on either side), but I agree that having soda as a more general accompaniment to dinner is mind/palate boggling.

A good friend of mine got married this summer and had to struggle with the husband's family to get them to not drink soda at the wedding meal. She refused to have such an abomination on her watch. (Unfortunately I had to tell her that somehow they seemed to get the staff to rustle them up tall glasses of thick black liquid, which were probably not giant pours of amari).

 

[Zachary Ross]

Where'd you get the pork bun?

 

[Thor]

Ah, memories of Yaniger's ex.

 

[Joel Stewart]

I only drink coke with Mc D's or at the ballpark. Coke and relish are hard to beat....they fake each other out.

 

[Claude Kolm]

Once upon a time, an innocent American visiting Alsace ordered Gewurztraminer in a restaurant because he couldn't get a Coke.

 

[Christian Miller (CMM)]

I'd never had a Mexican coke before. I was left wondering if people who regularly drink sodas have a whole other sense of cuisine.

Maybe not cuisine; it would be normal for many people to have a very different sensory appreciation of many foods or drinks from you. Maybe you just experience cola differently. Have you had it with other foods or by itself?

And then there are people who drink diet soda all the time, including many meals. That's a distinct palate.

 

[Ian Fitzsimmons]

Maybe it was just a flawed bottle. Did you get the corn syrup lot number?

 

[Jim Hanlon]

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Maybe it was just a flawed bottle. Did you get the corn syrup lot number?

Mexican Coke is made with cane sugar -- that's why people buy it instead of the US version. It goes well with tacos at my local tortilleria at lunch. On weekends, that Coke becomes a cerveza.

 

[scottreiner]

coke (made anywhere but the us and one plant in texas, don't even consider american coke) can only be drunk with copious amounts of rum...

 

[Vincent Fritzsche]

What a different an "a" makes. Took me a minute.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

originally posted by Jim Hanlon:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Maybe it was just a flawed bottle. Did you get the corn syrup lot number?

Mexican Coke is made with cane sugar -- that's why people buy it instead of the US version.

It's sort of like the Pie Franco of soft drinks.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
Surprisingly terrible food matchI had a Mexican coke last evening with my pork buns, and it completey ruined the flavors involved. I almost never drink sodas, and I was sort of taken aback by how radically this one changed my perception of a dish I know well. My mouth was sort of covered with gloss. Also, the sugar sort of zapped me.

I'd never had a Mexican coke before. I was left wondering if people who regularly drink sodas have a whole other sense of cuisine.

I guess you could read the above as some sort of joke, but it isn't. I was perversly awed by the damage done by the beverage.

Sweet tea with pork. Always.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:

originally posted by Jim Hanlon:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Maybe it was just a flawed bottle. Did you get the corn syrup lot number?

Mexican Coke is made with cane sugar -- that's why people buy it instead of the US version.

It's sort of like the Pie Franco of soft drinks.

I'm not crazy about Mexican Coke. Comes off as flat to me. Euro stuff tastes better, IMO.

Wish Coke would get the point and put out an American cane version.

 

[John Roberts]

Le coca-cola ne passera pas.

 

[Bill Lundstrom]

what do you guys think of Boylans sugar cane cola?

 

[Keith Levenberg]

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:

originally posted by Jim Hanlon:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Maybe it was just a flawed bottle. Did you get the corn syrup lot number?

Mexican Coke is made with cane sugar -- that's why people buy it instead of the US version.

It's sort of like the Pie Franco of soft drinks.

I'm not crazy about Mexican Coke. Comes off as flat to me. Euro stuff tastes better, IMO.

Wish Coke would get the point and put out an American cane version.

They do - Passover Coke. Look for the yellow caps. I prefer the Mexican stuff because it comes in glass bottles though.

 

[Keith Levenberg]

originally posted by Bill Lundstrom:
what do you guys think of Boylans sugar cane cola?

There are actually two versions of this, one of which is labeled "All Natural" or something like that and tastes vastly sweeter/fatter than the regular one, which itself tastes much sweeter/fatter than Coke. Coke is sort of like Heinz ketchup, it may be a megacorporate industrialized product, but nobody's managed to improve on it.

 

[lars makie]

I don't know. I don't have Mexican coke too often (once or twice a year maybe), but the last time I did it was sitting on a parking block eating some tacos al pastor from a street vendor. It was pretty serendipitous.

 

[VLM]

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:

originally posted by VLM:

originally posted by Keith Levenberg:

originally posted by Jim Hanlon:

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
Maybe it was just a flawed bottle. Did you get the corn syrup lot number?

Mexican Coke is made with cane sugar -- that's why people buy it instead of the US version.

It's sort of like the Pie Franco of soft drinks.

I'm not crazy about Mexican Coke. Comes off as flat to me. Euro stuff tastes better, IMO.

Wish Coke would get the point and put out an American cane version.

They do - Passover Coke. Look for the yellow caps. I prefer the Mexican stuff because it comes in glass bottles though.

What, the Jews control Coke now too?