[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Sanjeev Gupta, president and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola India, challenged the assertion that the soft drink sold in India is different from that sold in other countries. "Our product is ... the same product, which we sell in America, in Europe and India,'' he said.

Being a Diet Pepsi fan, I was delighted to see it for sale in Beijing when I visited there. One sip, though, told me instantly that it wasn't the same stuff. The difference may have been in the artificial sweetener (it wasn't aspartame or saccharin), but whatever it was made it nonpotable to me.

[yonif]

I drink coke and when I was living in China I too noticed a difference between American coke and Chinese coke. On a different subject, the milk tasted differently as well.