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Dr. Pepper drinkers have always seemed to be a bit of a cult in the soda drinking world. (My Mom was a lunatic for Diet Dr. Pepper, back in the days when you could get it in the tall glass bottles.) Are you one of those who looks down your fuzzy nose at Mr. Pibb?

You shouldn’t flush it, you should create another new mixed drink. A shot of 10 High, a jigger of O’Darby Irish Cream…use the whole studio space.

Yes, you’re right…there is a sort of Cult of Diet Dr Pepper. I didn’t realize the days of glass bottles and Diet DP overlapped. Only tried Mr Pibb once and I don’t remember much about it except that I was all excited to see a new and unfamiliar soda.

Canterbury is kind of sad, by the way. It was apparently a beautifully preserved medieval town until Hitler got it in his head to bomb historic sites as a way of breaking British morale. He got his bad self a guide book and went to town.

The Cathedral survived (and it’s very beautiful) but very little of the old town. They replaced the bombed out bits with shops, mostly, so it’s like a huge shopping mall. Woolworthses and WH Smithses and such. Very sad. Uncle B likes to go there on account of he likes to shop.

We are SO wired backwards.

What? You think I’d go to Canterbury to pray ?!

You know why I love Dr. Pepper, diet in particular?
Because they put every single fake ingredient they can get their hands on in that soda and they wear it like a badge of honor.
diet
cherry
vanilla
and whatever the heck the Dr.Pepper part is (in the old days I heard it was prune juice, now it’s “natural” flavors)

I’ve always heard that. About the prune juice, I mean. Never knew if it was true. I’ve just checked Wikipedia and they don’t say (which is odd. It’s a very old rumor). Worth reading the article.

Did you know DP was the first soft drink? It beat Coke by a year. It was sold in Waco, where there’s a Dr Pepper museum. Early patrons called it a Waco. The original had 23 flavors. Some bottlers refused to switch over to high fructose corn syrup in the ’80s, as a result of which you can still get some Dr Pepper made the old-fashioned way.

I don’t care what anybody says, I love Wikipedia.

I wish you could still get sodas make with sugar. Course maybe it’s good for me they don’t. High fructose corn syrup is sooo bad for you. Hubby used to work at a flavor company and told me it’s well basically poop.*cough* He does explain it a tad better than me.

It’s sumpin about enzyme byproduct. Mexico’s cool cuz the drinks are made with sugar. We here just get the crap.

I did not know it was the first soft drink.Dr. Pepper rocks. In high school I lived on a diet of Dr. Pepper and green granola bars. The bars weren’t green, the wrappers were.
Oh well look what I found. http://www.snopes.com/business/secret/drpepper.asp
It’s prolly juiced hobo. I’m sure of it.

Well, I know why that’s been such a persistent rumor. It really does taste a lot like carbonated prune juice.

Did I ever tell you about the Christmas Eve I drank a quart of prune juice and vodka? You’ll never guess what Santa Claus brought me!

A plumber?

Sure, there might have been a plumber in there somewhere. Or a mariachi band. Or a football team.

Four calling birds, three French hens………….

Oh wait, you said mariachi.
Feliz Navidad, feliz navidad.

Room for all. We’re talking BIG tent.

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Diet Dr. Pepper is my go-to drink if I can’t get Tab. Tab, of course, is far superior in the metallic tang department. It’s still got its saccharine, as God intended.

I do love me some Tab.

I went to high school in Waco. Before Janet Reno, we were only famous for our suspension bridge and Dr Pepper. Dr Pepper is still made in Texas with real sugar. Regular Dr Pepper is bleh, but I like the Diet. Odd?

Regular Dr Pepper is bleh, but I like the Diet. Odd?

No, not odd.

Deranged.

Deranged. That’s about right. Diet anything is bleh.

But regular DP has a really nice caffeine+sugar slap. Really gets ya going in the morning.

Its like…starting ether in a car. Va-va-voom!