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This. People have been using the phrase "post-satire world" for nearly a decade now, and it's completely true.

On the one hand, this is an utterly ridiculous thing for the President of the United States to announce.

On the other hand, I'm 90% convinced that it is true.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-says-coca-cola-agreed-use-real-cane-sugar-us-2025-07-16/

That's probably still a net win for the health of the US population though, right?

Completely on accident, he might actually improve the lives of average people if soda becomes cost-prohibitive.

The reason they started to use HFCS in the first place is because of.... a tariff.

He already did slap a huge tariff on it. Brazil makes up ~60% of the world's cane sugar exports and realistically is the only country with enough spare capacity to meet the US's needs. He just slapped a 50% tariff on Brazil because he's angry at them for prosecuting Bolsonaro.

he'll slap a huge tariff on sugar

He might also only say he will until the stock price is low enough to buy in, and then say he'll exclude it from tarrifs.

Honestly a gigantic tax on added sugars in our food stuff would be great. I want that shit taxed every time the commodity changes hands - from the moment it's a corn stalk or a sugar cane stalk or beets in the ground all the way through to when you are drinking your preferred variety of sugary drink.

Our food system is so broken and the financial incentives, and time saving ones, are perverse and pervasive.

I don't want to kill fast food but I do want it to go back to reasonable portion sizes and it should be cheaper to buy a salad than a burger. That's how our food subsidies need to be structured, not shoveling money into the meat and sugar/corn industry so the worst food can be the cheapest.

The US is actually one of the worlds top producers of sugar. We make about 65,000,000 pounds of sugarcane a year, plus all the sugar beets we grow. Also, the largest sugar refinery in North America is in Louisiana.

Now the goofball thing is that while it still isn't enough for all the United States, we export thousands of tons. Mostly to Mexico, but also like Canada and Japan, while at the same time we import way more from places like Brazil.

might just be the only good thing he does, and it still wouldn’t be on purpose.

He destroyed the bullshit TPP that was about to fuck over digital ownership with DRM , and that was by accident too,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership#Intellectual_property

This is the math. They assume that Coca Cola won't raise prices, will import more sugar, raise tariff revenue, and they can have their cake and eat it, too.

Meanwhile, in reality, Coca Cola US already sells a kosher version with cane sugar for Passover every year. So they just keep doing that, bring 20 cases to the White House for a photo op, and maybe do a larger limited run with ads on Fox News for literally 1 day.

Once again, being an idiot has allowed T to negotiate a hard position and force someone to do something they already do.

I have peed on kids!

I'm sure the CEO got a call from the Whitehouse and had a brief, rambly word salad vomited at them over the phone, and replied diplomatically along the lines of "we will absolutely investigate that as a possibility" in much the same way you placate someone elses precocious child

"Corn is life. Without corn in everything you consume, you will be sad and everyone will hate you. Drink delicious corn syrup for every meal."

-President of the lobbying group the Corn Refiner's Association

Jump? Have you bought soda recently in the store? I haven't in years until my wife wanted some... Over 3 bucks for a 2 liter, and a 12 pack is over 10 bucks...

Last time I looked it was about 2 bucks for a 2 liter... And that upset me because I remember when that shit was less than a dollar and I'm not even that old...

Anyway

Are we pretending that is something he cares about?

Considering he thinks the people that voted for him are stupid losers, he probably doesn't care.

Epstein? Are you still talking about him? /s

You can easily solve this by not drinking it.

Cane sugar has equal amounts of glucose and fructose though. High fructose corn syrup has more fructose than glucose which alters the taste.

@ijhoo@lemmy.ml yeah, so now Coca Cola will not only pillage so much mexican water (it's an actual terrible problem) they'll also be doing it with cane sugar now. Perfect 😒