They do not taste the same. Europeans are used to less sugar in many products so it tastes unnatural if it's too much. Friends from the states already told my German coke tastes worse than theirs.
There is an USA aisle on my local supermarket. Everything that i got there tastes like eating a spoon full of sugar, even the damn sausages!
So no, they dont taste the same.
Maybe part of the sugar is changed for artificial sweeteners? Usually when you only use part sweetener, you do not taste it even though you use cheap sweetener like aspartame.
But it is an interesteing question... never knew this was a case.
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