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Back in the day we used to dump a 5 cent bag of Planters Peanuts in a bottle of Dr. Pepper.

I still do that sometimes.

I no longer drink soft drinks, but in the day A Dr. Pepper was the best antacid there was. Bloated from too large a lunch? A few gulps of Dr. Pepper, huge burps & relief soon to follow.

Wife loves Dr. Pepper. Dublin was best. Real sugar in the green cans is better than the cornhole Dr. Pecker. I'm addicted to a Frozen Dr. Pepper every day, reconstituted several times with Diet Cherry Dr. Pepper's.

I first saw that happen at Fort Benning, Ga. in 1966, I then understood why the South lost the Civil War.



mike r

Both HEB & United Grocery’s dell it here. It’s the only Dr Pepper I’ll drink anymore.

Drive through there every once in a while Mike.
It’s a Museum and old fashioned soda fountain now.
They make a knock off version they bottle and sell, but it’s not the same. Used to drive through there just to buy several cases of it back in the good ole days. I think that beer store is still there though.

Diet Dr. Pepper is my thing. Don't drink coffee in the morning (or ever) I start the day with a couple of Diet Dr. Peppers.

Holy 80s flashback.

I think I remember this correctly. The Dublin Dr. Pepper plant was the oldest bottler in the country. They were a franchise of Dr. Pepper and have always bottled DP using pure cane sugar. They had an assigned geographic area of distribution. The original formula was very popular and they were selling outside of their area. Dr. Pepper sued and Dublin lost its DP franchise and they started bottling some terrible things like grape and orange sodas. I had friends and relatives who lived nearby and would ship me a cases of Dublin DP, I think it tastes better. There are pure cane sugar DP's out there but I've found them hard to find. I don't know if the Dublin plant is still in operation. Without Castro none of this would be an issue. Since Castro, we've built a alternative sugar industry. I often wonder if pure cane is cheaper to produce than beets and corn and if some magic happened and Cuba came into favor how would all that play out in a competition between alternative sugars and cane sugars. I still like my sodas with cane sugar.

You are correct on all of the above. The schitt they bottle now, their “home brew” stuff knockoff brand ain’t the same.
Like I mentioned two posts above, it’s a soda fountain & Museum you can tour now. They aren’t allowed to make or bottle Dr Pepper.

I was walking through Walmart a few days ago and noticed they had 6 packs of Dr Pepper in glass bottles, they looked like the old time bottles, but I just glanced as I walked by. I gave up sodas quite awhile back and dont miss them at all.

Gotcha.

Yes, the infamous ‘flaming shot’.

But, one should be very careful (and sober). Friend wound up in the emergency room with second degree burns on his neck and chest after a mishap while attempting this stunt with a double-shot of Wild Turkey.

It was the Snapple corporate biggies who didn't like the Dublin designation on the bottle and not the real sugar content, iirc. Had my last Dr. Pepper when that happened.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I seem to remember that U.S. law required a certain amount of cane sugar in all novelties (including ice cream and soft drinks). Ronald Reagan did away with that law in the '80s.

you know why dr pepper comes in a bottle?

cause his wife died.


you know why dr pepper comes in a can?

cause he's turned queer after his wife died.

I wouldn’t say it’s good...but it ain’t bad!

Mexican sodas are about the only ones I drink nowadays. Jarritos mostly, Tamarindo, Piña, and such. Real sugar stuff.

I do enjoy a Pepper now and again.

None of the sodas taste as good as they did, especially Fresca when they took the cyclamates out of it.

Geno