Some people tell me that HFCS tastes the same as sugar. I absolutely disagree.
I agree, high fructose corn syrup and sugar are not the same taste. I'm not sure if this is still true, but as of not that long ago, you can buy Coke in Hawaii that was made with cane sugar, and it tasted different (at least to me) from the "normal" Coke that is sweetened with HFCS. But until rather recently, corn was so ridiculously cheap, I'm not sure if even locally grown sugar cane could be cost effective against such dirt cheap HFCS.