Sweet

I'm not a fan of cola, but this is interesting:

While bread gets cracker-ified during Passover, chosen bottles of soda get stripped of their high-fructose corn syrup and are sweetened instead with the real deal. No need to hunt for imported Mexican colas or hitch a ride south of the border for the cane sugar cola that tastes so great.

That's right: Passover Coke is here! (Or Passover Pepsi, if you're on that side of the Cola War.)

Both Coca-Cola and Pepsi make a real-sugar version around this time of year, and you can find it by looking for yellow caps on Coke bottles or white caps on Pepsi. But to be sure you really have a sweet, sweet sugariffic cola in your hands, check the cap for a "P" next to whatever kosher symbol appears....

Because corn syrup is made from one of the five no-no grains, it's considered chametz and is therefore forbidden during Passover (along with anything made from wheat, oats, barley, rye, and spelt). The grain constraints are, of course, a nod to the Jewish exodus from Egypt; the Israelites fled in such a hurry that they didn't have time for baked bread to rise.

Hmm, might be worth a try just to see what it tastes like.

Comments

[Mark]

The Mexican restaurants around here sell this stuff year-round (imported from Mexico). We don't get soda very often, but I think it does taste better than the corn syrup sweetened Coke (and the Mexican glass bottles are pretty cool, too). We keep talking about doing a blind taste test, but really the taste doesn't matter as much as cutting some of the corn syrup out of our diets.

[Lisa]

Deborah says that the Passover Coke tastes better--less artificial. Some people try to stock up on it to have for after the holiday.