38 CocaCola Facts, Truths, and Myths | Fact .
CocaCola''s "New Coke" advertising failure in was so huge that it spawned several conspiracy theories. Some believe that Coke used the New Coke switch over as a ruse to replace the sugar in the original with cheaper highfructose corn syrup. Indeed, by 1985, Coke had replaced their original recipe to include HFCS.