You can also find US-market Coca-Cola sweetened with sugar at most Walmarts. It costs a bit less than the Mexican Coke. There's a section in the soda aisle that has a variety of "classic" and new soft drinks that don't have HFCS.
Pepsi, however, offers "Throwback" versions of Pepsi and Mountain Dew which use cane sugar instead of HFCS, and seem to be commonly available at many normal grocery stores in 12-packs for the same price as the regular ones. I prefer it to regular Coke, though Mexican Coke is a little better (but also much more expensive).
I visited the World of Coke in Atlanta a couple years ago, and at the end of the tour they had machines dispensing samples of all kinds of their international sodas. I was disappointed to find that Mexican coke was not offered, although in retrospect, not surprising as they probably would prefer not to advertise how much better cane sugar Coke is.
Rarely you can find sugar free flavored coke (around here cherry and vanilla seem somewhat common) but the only places that carry it are higher on the cost index.
You might also be able to find Mexican Coke, which is sweetened with cane sugar. I've seen it at regular grocery stores in upstate NY and CT so I imagine it's fairly common.
There's a grocery store in Los Angeles with a large collection of glass-bottle sodas and they do sell online at http://www.sodapopstop.com/, but there are other sites as well. Elsewhere in California, I've seen Beverages and More have a small collection also.
Both Mexican Coke and kosher-for-passover Coke are made with sugar instead of HFCS. If you're in America, one of the two is probably available near you.
Well ackshully, It's getting popular in America to get "Mexican Coke" (which is bottled, not canned so your point can still stand) because it can use cane sugar instead of HFCS:
I can't stand canned US coke. I have to drink mexican coke, which is sold at Homedepot near me. They seem to be selling those at $1 per bottle pretty well.
Right, but unless they specifically source it from Mexico (as that link seems to for that outlet), it might be Canadian Coke, which also has sugar and which you can also buy in glass bottles.
I've never actually seen coke made with sugar in cans! I've always heard of "kosher coke"/"passover coke" but never been able to find it.
Pepsi was selling "Dr Pepper Heritage" (green/yellow cans) and "Pepsi Throwback" for a few years around a decade ago. It was pretty widely available at gas stations in the midwest, although 12-packs of the Dr Pepper was not very common.
"Mexican coke" is still made with real sugar. Costco has it in glass bottles pretty consistently, and sometimes has pepsi in glass bottles with real sugar as well (although the pepsi isn't labeled like it's a Mexico product).
They have glass bottles of pepsi and coke around Kansas City in Mexican grocery stores as well as, oddly enough, the gas stations on the Kansas Turnpike. Half liter bottles are more common in the Mexican stores, but wal-mart often has 12 oz bottles of Mexican coke in the Hispanic section.
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