You guys are all crazy
then again, so am I

Hang in there lamp-tan, somebody will rescue you ;_;
Over here it's sugar. Actually, it's weird like you can't imagine to me how the rest of the world doesn't actually use sugar like here.
In the US, real sugar is rarely used in anything; almost everything uses high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener, because due to the extremely powerful corn lobby (yes they're extremely powerful, I'm serious here), farmers get huge government subsidies for growing corn, which makes corn and thus HFCS ridiculously cheap. So everyone uses it as an alternative to sugar. HFCS is also considerably unhealthier than real sugar, which is one of many reasons America has so many health problems.
A year or two ago Pepsi started doing limited runs of something called "Pepsi Throwback" which uses their old formula with real sugar, which is the first time younger people like me got to taste the difference. Maybe they're planning on a complete switch back if it sells well enough, since knowledge that HFCS is bad for you is spreading and sales are dropping, apparently.