Dr. Pepper
March 10th, 2008 by timbotron
This weekend, I found a local source for Dublin Dr. Pepper. Score!
For those of you who aren’t in-the-know: Dublin Dr. Pepper is the special original recipe Dr. Pepper, bottled in Dublin, Texas, and only available to people who are awesome. They use cane sugar, it adds a nice caramel note to the ‘Pepper.
Some interesting Dr. Pepper info:
• The company holds that Dr.Pepper is “a unique blend of 23 flavors” and that “the formula is proprietary information.” The fundamental flavors of Dr. Pepper are cherry and almond (amaretto). It is a spicy cherry-almond softdrink.
• Though it may have flavor notes similar to prune juice, it contains no prune juice, and never has.
• Because Dr. Pepper has figured so prominently in the pantheon of American softdrinks, it has been “cloned” dozens and dozens of times. There are entire online galleries of fake Dr. Peppers. The most well known clone being Mr. Pibb (by Coca-Cola).
• The late comedian Mitch Hedberg said it best:
“Mr. Pibb is a replica of Dr.Pepper. But it’s a bullshit replica – ‘cause the dude didn’t even get his degree. Why’d you have to drop-out and start making pop so soon?!”
(via Planet Timbotron)
March 12th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Good post. RIP Mitch Hedburg.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Besides being the ‘Necter of the gods’, Dr. Pepper has remained one of the strongest independant soda companies.
Being a ‘purest’ so to speak, I think anyone pretending to be a Dr. Pepper fan, but then being ok with using a substitute like Mr. Pibb when an establishment doesn’t have the original, should take thier traitorous actions else where.
If you don’t mind a really bad Dr. Pepper poem about Dr. Pepper…
http://erinjarvis.com/2008/an-ode-to-dr-pepper/
April 25th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
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