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This is a nice legend about the secret recipe. However production differs oflver the world. I.e. I'm the US the sweetener is high fructose corn syrup, while Europe uses Sycrose.

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It's possible to find sugar-sweetened in the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23363053 I've never tried to get HFCS here, but doubt it'd be easy.

(anyone know specifically why the sweetener differs? I'm guessing either cost or legislation...)

Different theories, but there's a strong belief that Archer Daniels Midland lobbied intensively to create the current status quo in the US.

http://www.motherlindas.com/HFCS_murky.htm

https://grist.org/article/adm-high-fructose-corn-syrup-and-e...

https://youtu.be/gPbh6Ru7VVM (skip to 5:30)

And in Mexico uses cane sugar.

Actually I think that’s only the version they export to US now

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