I hate high fructose corn syrup.  There are many reasons for this, though the main ones are I think it tastes bad and it really messes with your blood sugar regulation systems.  When we started Modmarket, I vowed to not have any HFCS in the restaurant.  Ever.  This proved to be easier in principle rather than practice but we managed.  Finding a fountain drink that didn’t contain HFCS and didn’t taste terrible was probably the hardest problem to solve.  Luckily, the good folks at Boylan’s helped us out.  They have been making soda sweetened with cane sugar since about the dawn of time (1891) and while they offer fountain soda on the east coast, they didn’t have a presence anywhere west of Kansas City.  After pleading our case, we convinced them to freight us a bunch of syrup to use in our restaurant and have been enjoying AMAZING HFCS free soda ever since.  There Root Beef and Ginger Ale flavors are ridiculously good.  I have actually been shocked at how many people have noticed and loved the fact that we have this offering instead of the usual Coke or Pepsi flavors.  From a business standpoint, I would LOVE to have Coke or Pepsi.  It is cheap as dirt AND they give you the machine to serve it out of.  What really chaps my bum is that both company’s make their sodas with cane sugar for foreign markets but you cannot get it in the US.  Oh well, at least there are awesome companies like Boylan’s who can provide a ’sweet’ alternative!