Originally Posted by sucrose

call that phone # and bingo they will give you a list of stores where they shipped it to and tell you if it was in 2L or cans. it'll be up to you to drive to that store to purchase the product or to call the store to make sure they still have it.

The people who answer the phones are not always the ones who can access exactly what items are on specific deliveries. They may know what stores got deliveries that day, but not what is on them.

Hands down, the best way to find anything is to just go look for it, when it comes to beverages.

Also, post-Passover, warehouses ship out KFP Coke under the regular Coke item number, so it ends up in other stores - that's how I got some last year, and I gave another board member info on how to get it as well.

Originally Posted by 01GTB

With all the media attention it got this year, who thinks there are going to be shortages of KFP Coke in the next few years? If there is not a widespread rollout of Coke with sugar, I think they are going to have ramp up production of KFP every year from now on.

Its really too bad that internet petitions are basically junk because it would be nice to basically let Coke and other soft drink manufacturers know that there is a (large?) group of people out there who want real sugar as opposed to HFCS, I know I would be willing to be a premium for it.

Just my two cents.
Call the 800 phone numbers for Coke and Pepsi,
just like a Chicago election "Vote early and vote often".
Companies pay attention to the data collected from
these phone calls.

My family still shops at this store.

Cola fans know Passover brings out 'real' Coke

I got eight 2 liter KP Cokes to start. I didn't want to get too many because I paid $1.39 each at Dorignac's in Metairie, LA (New Orleans metro area) and maybe I could find them cheaper elsewhere.

I was so excited that I forgot to check if they had KP Pepsi.

OMG....thank you thank you thank you Zap!! I just returned from dragging my boyfriend out at 11pm to snag 12 2L's of Kosher Pepsi from one of the Glenview stores!!! They are selling 8 for $10...while they last...

Glad I could help!! Enjoy your stash of real Pepsi. Hope you got yours too, Mr Zabe!

Originally Posted by 01GTB

With all the media attention it got this year, who thinks there are going to be shortages of KFP Coke in the next few years?

Yeah, speaking of the media attention - I was surprised even to hear a story about USA Passover Coke on the BBC World Service just a few minutes ago this evening.
-Andy

Here in central and northern NJ, there is an ample supply of real-sugar Passover Coke in 2L bottles, mixed in with the regular corn-syrup Coke. Stores in areas with high Jewish populations are likely to ONLY have Passover Coke on the shelf in 2L bottles and six-packs of cans, but all the fridgepacks of cans I've seen are corn-syrup.

This year is my first taste of real-sugar Passover Coke, and I definitely prefer it! However, I am even more pleasantly surprised by the taste of real-sugar Passover Sprite! It is amazing how much more distinct the lemon-lime flavor is, without the sticky corn-syrup coating in your mouth. Unfortunately it is more difficult to find -- look for the yellow cap, just like the 2L bottles of Coke.

I also tried Passover Pepsi (2L bottles with white cap, instead of blue), and now it seems like I can actually taste a difference between Coke and Pepsi, once that disgusting corn-syrup is out of the way! Pepsi is definitely more sweet than Coke, which is interesting because in regular corn-syrup form I could never tell any significant difference in taste between the two.

Also, I am disappointed by the lack of Passover Dr. Pepper. They already have one plant in Dublin, Texas making real-sugar Dr. Pepper all year round ("Dublin Dr. Pepper"), but distribution is limited to the local area unless you buy it online.

Dublin may have been the only source of cans of cane sugar dr pepper but there was also bottles in West Jeffereson, NC. Now we have some sightings from bottlers elsewhere in the US (see other threads for details).

Back to Kosher coke. I got a 2 liter of it last night. The store I went to had only a few yellow capped 2 liters (maybe 8 or 9) and hundreds of red capped corn sugar 2 liters. So if you didn't know what they were...

Both have the phrase "original formula" on them the only difference besides the cap color is the ingredients list saying "sucrose" on one and "high fructose corn syrup" on the other.

I didn't notice as "bright" a flavor as I expected so I'm assuming this was beet sugar or mixed sugar not pure cane sugar. Though maybe I'm wrong, maybe it is just because I bought my bottle after the passover season ended and it has been sitting too long?

Either way it's only been in the fridge less than a day so I'm going to have another tasting tonight.