The name sounds complex, but high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) —which we use to sweeten some of our beverages—is actually just a sweetener made from corn. It's safe; it has about the same number of calories per serving as table sugar and is metabolized in a similar way by your body.

It does have a slightly different flavor profile, and when Coca Cola decided to make the change (the first, supposedly, since the beginning of it’s “secret” recipe), they took 5 years to do it. Not to figure it out, to actually implement it: they started with 10% HFCS and 90% sugar, and 6 months later went to 20%/80%, and so on until sugar was eliminated entirely. Happened between 1979 and 1984.

The reason, of course, was cost; cane sugar was (uh oh) tariffed, and Midwest farmers produce lots of corn, so “politics” at both end of the legislative sausage.

The profile is different enough that “Mexican Coke” is made with sugar (because no tariffs there) and is sold separately in most grocery stores. Look near the Hispanic food section. I can tell the difference, but it’s not important enough for me to pay the higher price (harder distribution) and search it out. Some people do.

But either way, Donald Trump is still a pedofile

Oh that’s for sure. And that’s been going on far longer than 5 years.