The Twisting, Turning Tale of the Invention of Dr Pepper

[@TodayIFoundOut]

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[@timumbra2476]

No

[@Unclesmokey314]

Pics or it never happened. 😂

[@jkrissyla]

Is it possible to play as Captain America? That’s the real question.

[@kain0067]

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[@Australian_Made]

Joke from early 1980s Penthouse magazine. .... "Why does Dr pepper come in bottles? Ans. Because his wife died."

[@kingjellybean9795]

What kind of Doctor is Dr Pepper? Hes a fizzician....

[@pthelo]

That was rough, but I've never heard it before, so you get the thumbs up. 🤣

[@BellsCuriosityShop]

I hate the drink, but love your joke.

[@loneprimate]

BOOOOOOOO 😂

[@andywellsglobaldomination]

unoffizzabily!

[@baldgunguys]

Huh, could have sworn he was a fizziologist...

[@franpschorr3646]

I had a college roommate once who drank 2 2 litters of Dr Pepper a day. I’m not exaggerating he bought 14 bottles a week. He was skinny as a stick but just chugged the stuff all day. His entire closet was used as storage for the used bottles, cleaning it out every few weeks. Opening it and having a huge pile of empty crushed bottles fall down was a common gag for people visiting our room. Good times.

[@nodiggity9472]

@franpschorr3646 1 hour ago I had a college roommate who drank 50 litres of Dr Pepper a day. He's now a billionaire, and still manages to recycle his bottles in an ecological and ethically responsible way,

[@upupuptheziggurat.liketysplit]

@@nodiggity9472 The fuck? All dude said was his mate chugged Dr. Pepper to comical levels. He didn't say every few weeks we burned the plastic and danced round the plume. Finally, if your pals a billionaire and so great? Ask him how he made the money, because it wasn't all carbon negative.

[@masonmunkey6136]

I wonder how his health is now

[@claywest9528]

I have heard of people that were straight up hooked on the beverage.

[@nodiggity9472]

@@upupuptheziggurat.liketysplit He made his money selling carbon negative NFTs to neuro-divergent nepo kids.

[@Dovietail]

The REAL Dr Pepper scandal is what happened to the gorgeous art deco Dr Pepper bottling plant on Mockingbird Lane in Dallas in 1997. The bastards tore it down in spite of the historical society's protests, and workers died when the tower collapsed on them. 😢

[@dumptruckintruthduke]

It's not a scandal, they sold the plant. New owners tore it down

[@pault5557]

RIGHT! It was a gorgeous art deco building!!! 😢

[@patrickprice249]

Thanks for the story - Simon fans really are the best.

[@uroborous01]

damn. that brings back painful memories. i signed a petiton with my whole highschool, church, family, neighborhood. everyone you could think of signed this petiton to keep the building standing. but the damn bastards went and murdered that building anyway.

[@TimothyZakaria]

​@@patrickprice249they are lying about where Dr Pepper was invented not Texas the technology in Texas wasn't good in my opinion. A lot of famous foods come from NY back then. Thinking about Alcohol and how profitable it was. The 20s is meant to study

[@HippoOnABicycle]

In Sweden Dr Pepper exists, but it's a niche product that isn't very popular and not many stores sell. As a teenager I made a hobby of finding out which stores sold it, by going on long walks all over my small city going into every corner store I encountered to see if they stocked it. I don't drink it often now that I'm in my 30s, but I still get a craving every now and then, and last time I got a craving a few months ago I had to go on a walk in my neighbourhood visiting 6 or 7 stores before I finally found it for sale, just like when I was a kid lol.

[@TheGrinningViking]

Mix soda (coke is better for it, but either is fine) and root beer next time you're at a soda fountain. Bang 👍🏼

[@markalexander832]

Dr Pepper is not always easily found in parts of the USA, even, but I had never seen it in Europe until I had dinner at a Texas-themed restaurant in central Sweden, and Dr Pepper was on the menu. Taste of home!

[@Sedgewise47]

@@markalexander832 🤔 😯 “Texas-themed”?(!).. 🤔Wonder what a “NJ-themed” restaurant might/would look like…

[@cgpirre]

I can find it in several supermarkets here in Belgium, but they only have versions with artificial sweetener anymore, I hate the aftertaste.

[@eriklundstedt9469]

​@@Sedgewise47 IKEA... or maybe not, I know there was/is a restaurant owned by a Swede somewhere in Thailand, but I think it was still serving local food Maybe a Shop/cafè/restaurant serving "Swedish fika" , meatballs and on occasion "surströmming"

[@scottnunnemaker5209]

I’ll never forget that old lady who’s doctors said Dr Pepper will kill her but she outlived them.

[@WakenerOne]

Sounds like George Burns: J. Carson: "What does your doctor say about you smoking cigars?" G. Burns: "Ah, my doctor's dead."

[@melissacooper8724]

​@@WakenerOneI remember George Burns lived to be 100 years old!

[@WakenerOne]

@@melissacooper8724 Precisely!

[@JOHNKAUWELL]

So, you like my joke -- I'm stealing

[@butterflygirl13]

That would have been Elizabeth Sullivan. God bless her she lived to be 106 😊 died 2017

[@HenrySchecker]

Also room temperature Dr. Pepper and Jamaican spiced rum blend really well. Used to drink a quarter of a 2 liter, then fill it to the cap with rum. The bottles float so we'd go swim in the creek and let the bottles float in the water and then you take a few swigs. It was a great way to get blasted while cooling off on a hot day

[@scatman2397]

This sounds so nice with friends, simpler times

[@gringogreen4719]

I have to try this.

[@spook4429]

Oh my god! That was my first drink recently! It is really good lol

[@wlam205]

Jagermeister works excellently as well

[@JenniferSteil28]

Spent my formative years drinking Bacardi 151 and Dr Thunder 🤢

[@smonchie]

"Shoot me a Waco" has a very different ring to it today. Especially for ATF agents

[@paulluce2557]

Simon, you could invent your own fizzy drink... You could call it 'Dr Whistler's... Make sure that the recipe is only known to a maximum of two of your writers... and that they are never ever chained to the same radiator in the basement.. or even ever in the same basement...

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

I'm a pepper, he's a pepper, she's a pepper. Wouldn't you like to be a pepper, too? Be a pepper, drink Dr Pepper.

[@jray5363]

Did I miss that in the video? The most successful ad line ever, and he didn’t mention it?

[@McNasty43]

QUICK. Someone tell John Green about this one.

[@Gwyn23]

Came here to say this 😂

[@pthelo]

Me too! @@Gwyn23

[@instaperil]

Me too!!!

[@AWindy94]

I hope he comments on the video lol

[@Celinezarb]

We are everywhere

[@murdock1450]

It's still possible to get Dr Pepper with real sugar instead of HF corn syrup. It makes a huge difference. There's a store near me that sells "bootleg" real Dr Pepper. Or, you can find it in stores around Dublin, TX.

[@AtheistDD]

Funny thing about Dublin, the real one in Ireland. It is an island so they get there goods from different places Uk or serveral countries from the EU. Including DR. Pepper every country has different food regulations concerning sweeteners (suggar, or aspertan, or corn sirup or or) you never know what you get. Plus distrobution and or licensing of dr.Pepper is a giant clusterfuck in Europe, in some countries the pepsi group does produce it under license, in others the Cocacola-company also under license, ore dr pepper does produce and sell it them selfs in others. Every one of them uses another formular.

[@troodon1096]

Occasionally as temporary promotions they do sell the cane sugar version, and while I'm a huge fan of regular Dr. Pepper, the sugar version is so much better. Soda in general just has a much better flavor and "mouth feel" when it's made with cane sugar as opposed to corn syrup.

[@TheGrinningViking]

Mexican coca cola, Mexican root beer. They make both with cane sugar, and Dr. Pepper is cola and root beer.

[@athrun2]

I live in near Dublin, TX & even though Dublin can't make DP itself anymore, they still make it unofficially. still tastes the same, even. we also get year round access to the official real sugar stuff. it's not common, but readily available. I get it so much I just call it Dr Pepper Green, due to the green label

[@creditczar6979]

Mountain Dew with cane sugar is also da bomb!

[@ericthompson3982]

Just spotted something: the flyer said "artesian," not "artisan." Artesian is a type of water well source. Artisan is a crafts person. 17:48.

[@JennyLane8666]

Oh man let me tell you how badly this has frustrated me as both a coffee maker and baker, haha... trying to argue this distinction with customers is a neverending exercise in futility

[@georgestgeorge5110]

If sprite had flavors, this would be BBQ sprite.

[@Tiny_Toast]

😂

[@WakenerOne]

Did you ever get to try the Dr Pepper BBQ sauce during the five minutes they were making it? I wish they would bring that back. Best darn BBQ sauce I ever tasted. They quit making it right after I found out it existed.

[@georgestgeorge5110]

@@WakenerOne no, but I do use Dr. Pepper in the smoker.

[@PorkOMonTCG41]

@@WakenerOne they still make it. Can find it in stores and available at any Sheetz gas station

[@xsaxia2008]

Can I offer you a sprite... cranberry?

[@Nathan-vt1jz]

In grad school I used Dr. Pepper to keep me going on late nights writing. Normally a can would stimulate the my mind to keep me focused to the wee hours of the night… but then I moved to Texas. The combination of Texan independence, American patriotism and the fizzy power of the state drink merged into an elixir of exquisite potency. My thoughts flowed on rivers of light, stretching out to conceive an entire thesis in a moment. My fingers enhanced with such swiftness the air cracked with the passing of each stroke of a key, the 120 page volume unfurled in the space of a thunderclap. But alas, such brilliance is beyond the capacity of mortal writing instruments. In the reverent silence of that ascendant union, the cicadas’ song stilled, the tumbleweeds came to rest, and the air wafted with the ecstasy of freshly smoked brisket. My glowing eyes lowered in humble reflection of that holy revelation, only to confront what I knew to be true - my laptop, built by human hands was an unworthy vessel. The wreckage was absolute and my thesis undone. Yet this loss was but a fleeting shadow compared with the brilliance of drinking Dr. Pepper in Texas. P.S. One underreported side effect of drinking Dr. Pepper in Texas is the partaker gains complete knowledge of Quantum Physics up until the point of his first burp. Five scientists in College Station have tragically died attempting to stifle a post Dr. Pepper belch in order to reveal this knowledge.

[@nomdeguerre7265]

Ritalin works better.

[@deathnerd7]

That was just brilliant… and snarky. Thank you!

[@unbindingfloyd]

Dr. Pepper is an interesting Soda. It is one of the few that taste good at different temperatures. Iced is best but room temp works really well with spiced rum and this might sound strange but "hot Dr. Pepper" is pretty good in my opinion. It involves simmering Dr. Pepper and putting lemon slices in it during winter. All in all it depends on your taste though. I myself put it on equal footing with Coke while others I know hate it. That is likely its most unique attribute. There is no one in between seemingly. You either love it or hate it. And just fyi in case anyone goes to a chicken restaurant called "Pluckers" out in Texas. Get the Dr. Pepper wings. Greatest flavoring for fried chicken ever.

[@edbecka233]

Try a slice of orange or orange zest in place of the lemon. Just tastes a bit richer.

[@johng.8600]

Try it with Southern Comfort on ice. A Southern Dr.

[@GaryGainer]

Grew up drinking hot DP in the winter.

[@nomdeguerre7265]

Dr. Pepper used to advertise 'hot Dr. Pepper' as a 'tonic'.

[@nomdeguerre7265]

Isn't that kind of like adding sugar to....sugar? Try a Rusty Nail instead. We used to call that drink a 'panty remover'. @@johng.8600

[@zata1197]

I actually gave up soda specifically because of Dr Pepper, as a teen I was drinking 3-4 a day on average and I would have drank more if I hadn’t purposely tried to limit myself. It’s not the sole reason I’m overweight but it definitely played a big part. Also Rum and coke is a classic drink but I’ve always thought rum and Dr Pepper was way better.

[@ratcomputerr]

thanks for the idea

[@Rammstein0963.]

Try rum and Pepsi.

[@Zfullz]

Yeeeeeesssss. In order to not be typing for a year I'll give you the short version. I actually am the reason a couple of bars in the city where I went to college carry Dr Pepper. Cause I was a very frequent flier (a la college and shit) and kept asking for a whiskey and Dr Pepper. To the point where I would bring a can with me and just order the whiskey straight. Bartenders tried it, and soon enough they were stocking it too!

[@aaronb7990]

We called it a Dr. Morgan 😂🤙

[@orsiniproductionstudios3042]

As a Texan I thought it was funny that my wife, who was from Glasgow, was an absolute Dr Pepper addict. I didn’t much care for it but my god is the Whataburger Dr Pepper shake so good…

[@DasUTuberYahoo]

I would love to see Simon try a Whataburger. Come down to Texas, Simon!

[@AlKaseltzer87]

I had apartment maintenance come into my apartment to unclog my bathroom sink. They ended up cutting a hole in my bedroom closet to get to the pipes. I was curious about what was in there so I poked my head in one night before they sealed it back and there was a 16 oz glass Dr. Pepper bottle sitting inside the wall from somewhere around the 1970s, about the time my apartment building was built. The bottle still had some crusty residue from the drink. I washed it out and it's been sitting on my kitchen counter for the last four years.

[@mattfleming2287]

Dr. Pepper is the most delicious liquid I have ever imbibed. It hits my taste buds like the nectar of the gods, as your thumbnail states.

[@prophez23]

I couldn't agree more!

[@Charles-js3ri]

I love this drink. Cold Dr. Pepper from a can is one of the best treats ever.

[@stephanrosos4957]

Nothing remotely like it. Fizzy drink heaven!

[@oliver6287]

Diet is better

[@JimmyMon666]

Agreed. I don't drink it as often as I used to for health reasons. But it was my go to soda in my 20's and teens. Now just for special occasions.

[@x31omega]

Mnt Dew

[@69-Bot]

You know, I don’t think I’ve ever had it from a can, only a bottle.

[@SmithFriscoFamily]

Worked at the old hq in Dallas (Mockingbird) on various flavors and formulas for HFCS substitutions of sugar. In between I’d give tours and rattle off the DP origin story (this is FAR more in-depth) at the reproduction of the old drug store.

[@jmanj3917]

25:30 During my first enlistment the military allowed any active duty service member to drink alcohol on base, but only at the enlisted club (E-club), and only if it was beer or wine (no liquor), only in an already opened container (so you couldn't buy a six-pack...or thirty-pack, for some of us... and take it somewhere...in my case, I had to have my buddies take care of that). But they did this as part of the workaround you mentioned, for the people like myself, those who were seventeen to twenty years old and not allowed to drink alcohol despite being in the position of being subject to all of the things that are part of military life.

[@Linguae_Music]

Literally if you want to know the ingredients of something... There is this thing called Mass Spectrometry. It literally gives you a graph with peaks that correspond to all of the molecular constituents of a sample... You could could also use a centrifuge to separate everything into layers of descending density, and find the proportions of each ingredient by weighing them.... Or you could just derive the proportions from the strength of the spectrographic peaks (that might be easier)

[@lesliekilgore648]

the problem with using a mass spectrometer? this NEVER works for food. know why? because the raw ingredients put INTO the beginning of the process NEVER come out of that process exactly the same on an atomic or molecular level. cooking, pasteurization, canning/bottling, transportation, refrigeration, local water contents, all of that lead to something 'different' happening inside the substance you pull out of the finished container with a pipette and put into your mass spectrometer.

[@Ben_Gunner]

​@@lesliekilgore648you forgot to finish with 'and smoke it' at the end just to be double clever 😂🍻

[@jergarmar]

Oh my goodness, thank you SO much for the reminder about how high the "normal" age for marriage was in the US, especially hundreds of years ago. I love history, so it drives me *crazy* just how often falsehoods like this get propagated as "fact", such as the myth of "widespread teen marriage" in Western Europe or early America. And as you say -- surprise! -- it's the baby boomers with the shockingly low marriage ages... and high rates of divorce. Study history, these blatant inaccuracies all the time!

[@jonrolfson1686]

Boomers? Marrying young in 1950? The oldest 'boomers' turned four in 1950.

[@joeycampbell940]

Right like how do people still believe the Holocaust happened, i saw a KZbinr say it didn't happen while talking about tacos, so clearly the well documented history is just falsehoods and myth.

[@hoiner140]

​@@jonrolfson1686 four is young, right? 😊

[@mrsmegz]

When the greatest generation gave birth to the boomers, they married them off as quick as they could.

[@troodon1096]

Realistically even the oldest baby boomers wouldn't be getting married until the 1960's. Baby boomers are typically considered those born between 1946 and 1964.

[@claywest9528]

I can say, as a Texan, I really like a cold Dr. Pepper on a hot day. Yes, Coke and Pepsi aren't bad. But Dr Pepper is my favorite.

[@JayLopiccolo]

Surprised you guys missed one fact about Dr Pepper. The Dr Pepper Snapple Group does not exist anymore. They merged with Keurig Green Mountain to form Keurig Dr Pepper Inc in 2018.

[@world_still_spins]

Says 2023 DR PEPPER/SEVEN UP. INC. on this bottle.

[@TheGrinningViking]

Gross.

[@tonycrabtree3416]

@@world_still_spinsI work for Keurig Dr Pepper. The company owns Dr Pepper. They have two HQs. Frisco, Texas and Burlington, Massachusetts.

[@nurseruthie11]

I visited the original Dr Pepper factory in Dublin, Tx a few years ago. My understanding was that this was the original factory of the much disputed origin. They’ve never been given credit for it. They still produce the original “Dublin Dr Pepper” made with pure cane sugar that is only available in the Dublin, Tx area.

[@TheAnantaSesa]

Wikipedia says they stopped in 2012 due to trademark dispute. Also says there was a style called heritage Dr. Pepper that used cane sugar. Why couldn't they just call it Dr. Proper or whatnot like all the other knock offs and let word of mouth spread about its superiority? Sad they just quit entirely.

[@chasehatchett4756]

You’ve never had a Dr Pepper until you’ve had one they mix there at the the Dr Pepper museum in Waco. It’s magnificent.

[@miguelechanove]

13:53 No one is gonna see this or care, but the pour from the beaker with the spatula to guide the mix and rinse the spatula is clean af

[@beckybugbee5696]

We learned to do that in chemistry class. You mix up a specific concentration of a mixture, stirring with a glass rod, then pour your mixture into a flask or other container. You put the glass rod in the groove of the pouring spout to prevent any undissolved chemical or precipitate from leaving the beaker.

[@andywellsglobaldomination]

When I was a kid, the concession stands at high school sports fields offered hot Dr Pepper, steaming hot with a slice of lemon. Yum!

[@riveramnell143]

Dr. Pepper has always been my favorite soda. Dr. Pepper cherry is especially good. Now that I’m an adult, I like to mix Dr. Pepper and Kraken rum. It makes a lovely mix I really love in the summer.

[@jamoore2581]

It's crazy to hear someone talk about a place I live. B.F.E. a hr from any decent shopping mall. 30 mins from anything but dollar stores. Only 1 stop light. Wythe Co, va is where rural Retreat is located and they are proud of the fact dr.pep was made there. Lol I've heard about it my whole life.

[@terryenby2304]

John Green would love this episode! Dr Pepper is delightful.

[@Bluestar1079]

Did I sit here for a half an hour watching a video about how a drink was created? Yes. Did I love every minute of it? Yes.

[@dustylong]

And I don't even like the drink 😅🤣

[@collincutler4992]

I used to serve on the USS Pennsylvania with a guy who's family still owned the original building Dr Pepper was created in.

[@peterj.fallon4327]

Sincerely, thank you for your service. Most people truly do appreciate it..

[@onlythatonetime]

Do you recall the jingle, "I'm a Pepper, you're a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?"

[@jonrolfson1686]

The Pronouns would be problematic this year. Perhaps the jingle is due for an update.

[@andywellsglobaldomination]

Sung by the future werewolf of london.... ps... his hair was perfect...

[@edbecka233]

Another of their jingles went, "Not a cola, not a root beer, a light and lively taste that you'll cheer"...

[@drg9812]

The people of Waco Texas have a secret recipe for Dr Pepper: Mix it with Blue Bell Vanilla Icecream to make something amazing If you have a Sonic near you; you can get something close by asking them to "blend" a Dr Pepper float

[@johnrohe1547]

In Texas no one calls sodas pop. Here in Austin we basically just say coke for everything.

[@Cokecanninja]

Soda customers: "Shoot me a Waco" The Federal Government: "OK"

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

I have a story about a secret recipe. As a college student in the 1980s, I got a job working for a local chain of pizza places in upstate NY. The owner/founder, Dave, had gotten his start working for Dominoes before becoming the owner of a couple of Dominoes franchises. He later sold those franchises and started his own pizza chain which was run very much like a Dominoes. Our employee manual was literally a photocopy of a Dominoes employee manual with “Dominoes” whited out and the name of his store written in. The pizza was actually a little on the spicy side, but very very good. Dave had gotten the sauce recipe he used from Dominoes founder Tom Monahan. Dave told me that he had been to an event for Dominoes franchisees and ended up out drinking with Monahan. Late in the night, a very drunk Monahan started telling Dave the original Dominoes sauce recipe, which Dave wrote down. Dominoes had replaced that recipe with a blander sauce recipe in the hopes of appealing to more people. Even though I made the sauce on a regular basis, I never learned the recipe. Dave had all the spices mixed together and delivered in packs. All I knew was how much of the spice to add to the tomato paste and sauce, but I never learned exactly what was in the spice pack. But the sauce was really very tasty. Having had Dominoes pizza, all I can say is they never should have changed their recipe.

[@ConspiracyVoid4]

Nice story, always wondered how owners and inventors kept their recipes a secret from the employees that make it..

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

@@ConspiracyVoid4Whoever mixed and shipped the spice packs had to know what was in those packs, but I never knew who did that. It was definitely an outside company, though.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

Of all the chain pizzas, I think Dominoes is the most bland.

[@garyg7145]

​@@michaelmcchesney6645 McCormick makes special proprietary seasoning blends for many restaurant chains and food companies.

[@MasterMalrubius]

Age to get married: 18 Age for brain to full develop: 25 Age to decide your gender: 7

[@ImWearingPantsNow]

...as I sit here drinking a Dr. Pepper...

[@VonOutlaw]

So interesting little facts there is a shop in Los Angeles California where you can actually buy glass bottles filled with the original recipe of Dr Pepper, also the number 23 that's on the can every single can stands for how many ingredients were involved in the original recipe. I have had the original recipe and it does actually taste quite a bit different from the one that they use now but I almost kind of prefer it over what we have now

[@bettyir4302]

It isn't that hard to create a close proximity to today's recipe. I chaperoned some school kids to the museum where they were given flavorings to create their own sodas. Our group happened upon a taste very similar. Ack, that recipe was lost since no one measured but threw it all together.

[@TheGrinningViking]

Coca cola and root beer. Pepsi works too.

[@thecategoricalcringeperative]

Delete this if you don’t want them sued. lol. Look up the Dublin Dr. Pepper controversy.

[@bettyir4302]

@@thecategoricalcringeperative If you see Dublin Dr. Pepper on a menu, go for it. The sugar cane makes all the difference in the world.

[@wstavis3135]

The 23 refers to the number of flavors present in Dr Pepper, not the ingredients.

[@mjmulenga3]

If the mean age of first marriage was 19, that means there were as many brides BELOW the age of 19 as there were above it. 😂

[@nomdeguerre7265]

Or more, if the mean is a mean age. If it's simply the number of marriages above or below 19, then you're exactly right.

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

Dear ol' dad served with many Southerners during WW2... long story short, when I was little he gave me warmed Dr. Pepper with lemon when I was sick... I have no idea why.

[@robjohnson3095]

Fascinating, having the fake photo stain stay static as the old timey photo scrolled behind it was quite disturbing. Also, the Dr Pepper facts were amazing, and the bonus facts totally astonishing!

[@blaster-zy7xx]

I did not find it disrurbing as much as a very noticable and interesting video editing choice .

[@AIJenkins]

Ha, I thought my screen was dirty. 😊

[@HughMongusJazzhole]

No doubt an S-tier soda. Even the diet version tastes refreshing

[@arikfick5122]

As someone who grew up in Roanoke/Christiansburg, VA, I actually remember reading stories in school that the drink was created by Dr. Pepper locally. Had no idea that was disputed. 😂 Roanoke has a giant Dr Pepper billboard celebrating its local creation.

[@Corsuwey]

Despite knowing otherwise, I still call it "Carbonated Prune Juice." Oh... And fun fact: Japanese do not like DP because it tastes like medicine to them. However, it's sold in vending machines... which I don't quite understand, but appreciate because I love DP.

[@pleasesmokes5286]

Went to middle school in Brownwood Texas in 04 or 05 they took us to the dr pepper plant in Dublin i remember they told us the story of him trying to get the approval of his father in law and naming it after him wish i could remember more

[@finnboru7977]

Personal theory- they simply added carbonation and syrup to Benedictine, which had been concocted about 20 yrs earlier.

[@SingBlueSilver-m7t]

Dr. Pepper is like cilantro: you either love it or hate it. To me, personally, it tastes vile. My mom could never get enough of it, lol.

[@MrMysteryman00]

It’s aight.

[@nodiggity9472]

She wasn't your real mom.

[@Bubbaist]

Kinda like cardamom. The first time I had it in something I thought, “Where have you been all my life?” It came as a shock to discover that some people really don’t like it.

[@jimtaylor294]

...or as the rest of the world alls it; Coriander 😂

[@dominicwaghorn6459]

Dude! Dr Pepper is BEST when it's flat and warm!

[@MrRezRising]

Flat and warm Dr. Pepper is exactly how it should be before you pour it over a roast ham and cook it with pineapple. DP with pork, spices and herbs is a staple meal in parts of this country.

[@nomdeguerre7265]

The use of Dr. Pepper in sauces needs further investigation. You're not the first person I've known that has used DP in cooking pork!

[@erinspbrown]

Popularity as a heated beverage and actually when heated it tastes completely different I really like it

[@lus8013]

No matter how many times I’ve heard it, by far my favorite and I can never understand the “cough syrup” people

[@clubjed6276]

More like cherry sprite, nasty stuff

[@jonrolfson1686]

🤔The cough syrup folks had aspirations, a strong desire to achieve palatability. Perhaps they were limited by the need to produce actual cough-suppressing medication.

[@GlennSimpkins]

"Bovine intestinal waste" Good One!🤣

[@barrydysert2974]

This was a 3 for the price of 1 episode. Well done !:-)

[@ras.al.dolezal]

"shoot me a Waco" carrying a different meaning a hundred years later unfortunately

[@EctoFunctrs]

Ive been playing enlisted for years now, shits so fun. If you like the time period definitely deserves a try

[@stonedfish99]

I’m definitely going to try it. I’ve loved WW2 based games like H&G so this looks fun! But also, the customization looks to be a great feature

[@EctoFunctrs]

@stonedfish99 it really is, I will say that the progression can get a little slow but it's worth it once you get the fighter squadron and the mortar squad but you never really get bored and if you do switch campaigns cause like he said it really does feel like a new game. My favorites are the pacific and the d-day campaigns. Happy to have another player join, the player base really has expanded in the past couple years

[@OrangeApeOutdoors]

Can you shoot me a Waco? "And I took that personally" - U.S. Government

[@Planag7]

For those wanting to make a good alcohol mixer with Dr. Pepper, mix in a little Gin. Omg it's amazing

[@Hollylivengood]

Mmm, I'm a Dr P and whiskey fan. But I'm going to try the gin.

[@smstnitc]

It goes well with Jack too

[@WakenerOne]

Disaronno. Make it just like a rum & coke. I call it a D&D.

[@ryandude2448]

Ive mixed dr pepper and whiskey/bourbon for the last 5 years. There's been many times in my life I was definitely 1% dr pepper.

[@chelleyroberts]

I add peppermint schnapps. I call it a Dr Peppermint.

[@TheManFrayBentos]

"From nectar of the Gods to chemical pig-swill." Love it.

[@PhilBesch]

It's a shame you didn't go on to mention what happened to Dr Pepper after Snap got ahold of them. That's when the whole 23 flavors came into play. Then the only place you can get original. Dr Pepper was in Waco, Texas. After a while, Snapple prevented that factory from producing Dr Pepper. I long for the day when they would make original Dr Pepper again.

[@kamenwaticlients]

I didn't know that. It makes sense why I started to dislike it in the past few years.

[@pauliedibbs9028]

Another fun fact is that there are glass bottle versions of Dr Pepper out there today and yes, they are made with real sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup... and they are the BOMB!

[@seed_drill7135]

The main difference between Dublin and most other places was sugar rather than HFCS. They also bottle it in glass with sugar in West Jefferson, NC (who also bottles Mountain Dew on a license that predates Pepsi's acquisition). But they don't ship outside their territory, though others manage to get it distributed in parts of VA, NC and upstate SC.

[@TheGrinningViking]

It's cola and root beer mixed together now. That's easily 23 flavors, and easily tested by mixing them at a soda fountain.

[@Blinkerd00d]

The Dr pepper made with Imperial sugar is my favorite... sometimes it can be harder to find, and I live in TX.

[@bradlevantis913]

Dr Pepper just hits different

[@TheTransporter007]

Dr. Pepper is the nectar of the gods.

[@LaelHitz]

In Perú it is difficult to find Dr. Pepper in the capital, Lima. Years ago it was rare to find any Pepsi products there, because of the dominance of Voca Cola and Inca Cola. However, Dr. Pepper and other Pepsi products are found in littlw towns throughout the Amazon Basin, becuse it they are imported from the Brazil side via the Amazon river.

[@LordBitememan]

The recipes for both Coke and Dr. Pepper are well known by a number of people in the industry. Anyone who doubts that needs to understand that Pepsi and Mr. Pibb produce nearly identical products to Coke and Dr. Pepper respectively. Sure they taste slightly different, that is by design. They want their product to be similar enough to appeal to the market for that flavor, but distinct enough to stand out from these main brands. But rest assured if all of Coke's factories burned down and they decided to pay Pepsi to make Coke (or Pepper and Pibb), they'd be able to make it up to speck almost no problems.

[@PockyFiend]

What's Pepsi's Dr. Pepper equivalent? Where I live (Southern Illinois), the local Pepsi bottler, Pepsi Mid-America, has also been the local Dr. Pepper/Seven Up bottler for decades, which kinda explains why Sierra Mist never really made it big where I live.

[@daniellehutchinson5724]

Pibb is gross and nothing like Dr Pepper

[@TheGrinningViking]

Pibb is awful, just the worst. They did a terrible job if they know how to copy the good stuff - but I suspect they know that Dr. Pepper is just cola and root beer syurps mixed together and carbonated and their own cola and root beer varieties mix less well than cokes.

[@Rammstein0963.]

Dr. Wham was the closest ever to Dr. Pepper iirc.

[@MegaMonkey227]

Me, a proud Texan and DrPepper lover: “choose your words wisely, whistle boy”

[@b.thomas8926]

My life for Dr Pepper.

[@DatBoiSaint]

I started drinking Dr. Pepper because I had a choice of drinking either tap water or Dr. pepper while staying/crashing over at a friend's house. That's how my addiction started.

[@ezmodey1105]

Ngl Dr pepper is pretty good tho. Strong s tier contender it has that good burn that really solidifies the cold crispness.

[@brianlarsen9952]

Im a Pepper, you're a Pepper, hes a Pepper, shes a Pepper Would'nt you like to be a Pepper too

[@lupo3694]

love myself a Dr Pepper. I liked that little history lesson.

[@drewsirry9118]

Shoot me a Waco means something entirely different now

[@krymsonuchiha14]

Fun fact: I'm obsessed with root beer so much that since it's so hard to find it when I moved to the UK I ended up drinking Dr Pepper when I get a craving since I miss it so much! Otherwise it's just water.

[@floydlooney6837]

I heard it tastes different in other countries

[@dbach1025]

Nothing like an ice cold Pepper out of a glass bottle.

[@Nylak-Otter]

Ugh, my partner LOVES Dr. Pepper. I'm not a huge fan, but I'll have a bit every so often (usually when she gets it fresh from a good soda fountain and I feel like stealing some of hers). I don't mind the sugar free version of the new strawberry cream variety, though. It's a nice addition to my pop line-up to add some variety. (I'm a recovering alcoholic, so having access to tons of different flavors of pop has helped replace the habit, but since my transplant gave me Type WTF diabetes I usually stick with diet.)

[@3DHDcat]

the most yank post

[@Nylak-Otter]

@@3DHDcat If that's in opposition to southern, I'll take it as a compliment. 😚 Or at least an accurate assessment.

[@3DHDcat]

@@Nylak-Otter ignorant as ever 😂

[@Nylak-Otter]

@@3DHDcat How so? In my country, a Yankee is a northerner, having suggested history in those that fought against slavery in our civil war. I'm afraid I don't know where you're from or your local colloquialisms if it means something different to you. 🤨 And yes, pop is generally a more northern term here for Coke/soda/soft drinks.

[@timothyoswald8618]

Dr. P is definitely the best mass produced soda. Delicious stuff.

[@jormungand72]

I like how "root beer" is listed as a flavor when root beer has at least a half dozen different flavor profiles itself... perhaps they mean sarsaparilla (smilax) or sassafras root

[@TheGrinningViking]

Nah, it's cola and root beer. If they buy the root beer as an ingredient they can list it as one thing. Food labeling is weird.

[@S3lkie-Gutz]

I know one of the flavouring ingredients allegedly used is horseweed or marestail, blackforager(Alexis Nikole) has a short video on it, it takes on a sarsasparilla like flavour when cooked for a good bit apparently

[@FirstNameBunchANumbers]

I'm just waiting for John Green to notice this

[@litlclutch]

Love Dr Pepper, its the only pop I still drink. I still limit myself to no more then 1 a day but that's because I used to drink too much coke and don't ever want to do that again. I had withdrawals when I stopped drinking coke back when I was 18 and I just wanted to slight healthier so I switched to drinking water mostly.

[@shadow-wulf]

When I was a teen I easily drank a case of cherry coke a week. Until we ran out one weekend and I had a headache that I thought was going to split my head open. I was at my friends house in so much pain even after several extra strength Tylenol. He suggested it was caffeine withdrawal, so I grabbed a can of Pepsi, which I didn't like, and a spoonful of instant coffee, which I despise, and chugged it. Half an hour later the headache was gone. So I cut back big time after that!

[@seed_drill7135]

Here's a fun bit of Dr. Pepper trivia, the same person, Jake Holmes, who wrote Dazed and Confused (later covered, uncredited, by Led Zeppelin) also wrote the Be a Pepper jingle.

[@whome4642]

What? Led Zeppelin “borrowed” someone else’s song and claimed it as their own? I’m shocked i tell ya!

[@tonycrabtree3416]

I still sing that jingle. David Naughton was the actor in the commercials.

[@macngeeseyt6029]

TEXAS FOREVER!!!!!!

[@joegibson4946]

Growing up in SE Texas in the 1960s, Dr. Pepper was simmered on a stove top with slices of orange for a cold weather punch. It was a common party punch for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[@kb5zuy]

And who remembers the adverts for hot Dr Pepper served with a slice of lemon as a winter time drink? I remember a picture with a glass of DP, with lemon, and a roaring fireplace in the background.

[@NoBeats_]

Dr. Pepper is just tasty Moxie. Moxie is just Dr. Pepper that’s gone bad.

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

Haha. IMO Moxie is a crime against humanity.

[@TheGrinningViking]

Dr Pepper is just coke and root beer, try it at a soda fountain! No idea how Moxie managed to screw it up, honestly.

[@hypercactus6489]

So what you’re telling me is that dr. Pepper started off as a swamp water drink? That’s amazing. 🤣

[@artbyjennyray]

Another bonus fact: for a short time in the 1960's, Dr. Pepper advertised serving the soda hot with some lemon. Sounds perfectly terrible to me!

[@MadameRaven1]

In the movie “Bakst from the past” the dad (Christopher Walken) drank his Dr Pepper hot.

[@Witch_of_TheWood]

Dr. Pepper and coca cola are both common to have with lemon here (southern/Appalachian area) and I've also heard of people drinking it warm.

[@MrRezRising]

It's not bad to cook with, esp pork. Ham with pineapple, marascino cherries, some onions and carrots in the pan and two cups of Dr.Pepper, or Coca Cola. Baste often and that's good eats.

[@chasehatchett4756]

It’s good when it’s cold outside.

[@tomcwenkala8718]

When I was a kid I got to go where they prepped the floats for the Pasadena Rose Parade. They served hot Dr Pepper, and it was good!

[@tjcaruthers5593]

My name is TJ and I am a Dr Pepperholic.

[@DasUTuberYahoo]

Dr Pepper was in my bottle as a baby in Texas. My father passed his love of it to me. Later, my brother-in-law worked for Dr Pepper, and would eventually have a falling out with the company. My BIL swore off ever drinking it again. When he asked the family to join in his boycott, we chose Dr Pepper instead of him.

[@nelsonbrum8496]

Hot Dr. Pepper on a chilly, rainy day is a ray of sunshine.

[@nellieharper2572]

Ahhh, the drink no one can agree on. Is it a soda pop? Cola? Root beer? Does it taste like medicine? A melted slushy drink? Why is it sold only sometimes along side Pepsi and occasionally Coca Cola? Did you know DrPepper has a really weird history of manufactoring up here in Canada? Why do so many drink it flat? Cold? Hot?! Dr. Pepper is good but my local store is always sold out.

[@Anonymoose66G]

It's a soda, Coke is a soda. It tastes like medicine to some, never heard of the slushy taste though. Who the hell has it warm/hot or flat weirdo activity. Thinking of it now though I don't think it would taste bad at all flat or hot.

[@TheGrinningViking]

Mix root beer and coke, it tastes the same as (modern) Dr Pepper. Better than Mr Pibb too, no idea how they screwed up so bad.

[@differentfins]

Dr Pepper is awesome. I dont drink a lot of soda pop beverages but it must be my favorite. I like Dr Pepper more than any brand of Cola.

[@WPAPi3.14]

EASY, the original pepper Upper, COCAINE!🎉😂❤😎

[@seed_drill7135]

My great-grandmother, a Virginian, was 14 when she got married and had three children by her 18th birthday. Oh yeah, and 1950 wasn't the baby boomers, it was their parents.

[@ellsworth1956]

Minor correction. Moxie is a brand of carbonated beverage that is among the first mass-produced soft drinks in the United States. It was created around 1876 by Augustin Thompson as a patent medicine called "Moxie Nerve Food"[2] and was produced in Lowell, Massachusetts.[3] The sweet soda is similar to root beer, with a bitter aftertaste.[4] It is flavored with gentian root extract, an extremely bitter substance commonly used in herbal medicine.

[@Dovietail]

I grew up in Dallas, and my mom, who went to college in Waco, would make a pot of hot Dr. Pepper with sliced oranges and lemons on snow days. Yum!!! The origin mystery is a feature, not a bug.

[@gdp3rd]

When I was an undergrad at MIT in the early 1970s, before the later successful "Be a Pepper" ad campaign, ex-pat Texans really missed their Dr. Pepper. My roommate (from the Waco area, in fact) and I found out that the 7-Up bottling plant in nearby Wellesley was beginning to bottle (can) Dr. Pepper. We would drive there, load up his VW Bug with cases, return to campus, and sell individual cans at a hefty markup. Sort of like the old tales of Coors runs from Colorado. We also were known to imbibe Dr. Pepper and Canadian Club.

[@ronjohnson5070]

I spent the summer as a kid traveling around New York and New Jersey (1981)Dr. Pepper was almost impossible to find. Hot sauce, salsa, etc the same. In Missouri back then there was a copy called Dr Nut and had a squirrel on the can. They also had way more Mr Pibb available than the real thing

[@bettyir4302]

Mr. Pibb tasted much the same but cheaper so that was lots go to.

[@MP_Single_Coil]

I grew up in New Mexico. We had Dr. Nut too. My family bought it and RC Cola to be frugal.