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Dr Pepper artifact may reveal soft drink's origin
yahoo ^ | 04-may-2009 | JAMIE STENGLE

Posted on 05/04/2009 7:59:19 AM PDT by stainlessbanner

DALLAS – Poking through antiques stores while traveling through the Texas Panhandle, Bill Waters stumbled across a tattered old ledger book filled with formulas.

He bought it for $200, suspecting he could resell it for five times that. Turns out, his inkling about the book's value was more spot on than he knew. The Tulsa, Okla., man eventually discovered the book came from the Waco, Texas, drugstore where Dr Pepper was invented and includes a recipe titled "D Peppers Pepsin Bitters."

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To: AppyPappy; Eric in the Ozarks

There’s got to be both cherry and cola in it. But there’s way more to it than that. I’m thinking red wine an some other stuff, like maybe vanilla or malt syrup.


21 posted on 05/04/2009 8:14:00 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I always thought it tasted like prunes.

LOL! Glad I'm not the only one.

22 posted on 05/04/2009 8:15:41 AM PDT by MamaTexan (If you don't think government IS the problem, you're not looking hard enough)
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To: stainlessbanner
"mandrake root, sweet flag root and syrup"?

ok, so those are two I've not heard of. Those drugists of old were more like chemists in search of something for local public appeal. Pretty cool when you think about it.
23 posted on 05/04/2009 8:16:04 AM PDT by mentor2k
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To: AppyPappy

Yes, as best as I can taste Dr. Pepper is basically a cherry cola. The cherry versions of Pepsi and Coke are similar.


24 posted on 05/04/2009 8:16:25 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“But is said dog drool to be from a Chihuahua or from a Great Dane?”

Now I’m starting to regret my post lol, it’s even more disgusting when you start to imagine different breeds.


25 posted on 05/04/2009 8:17:21 AM PDT by Texan Tory
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To: mamelukesabre

It has a vanilla note, but so does plain old Coca Cola.


26 posted on 05/04/2009 8:17:21 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: mountainbunny

Dmaned Straight, Cheerwine is 1000 times better than Dr. Pepper could ever hope to be, but alas, NC Bottling Company has yet to go national.


27 posted on 05/04/2009 8:17:56 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: stainlessbanner
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28 posted on 05/04/2009 8:18:32 AM PDT by vox_freedom (If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: AppyPappy

Dr Pepper has a cherry version. It isn’t much different from the regular.


29 posted on 05/04/2009 8:19:19 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: Texan Tory

I personally would vote beagle.


30 posted on 05/04/2009 8:19:56 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I always thought it tasted like prunes.

You say that like it's a bad thing....

31 posted on 05/04/2009 8:24:06 AM PDT by brewcrew
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To: HiTech RedNeck

My point in saying this formula probably tastes like New Coke is that none of these formulas are exact to what was marketed 100 years ago.

They got off cane sugar (except some DP regional to small town Texas) years ago and Coca Cola used to contain cocaine.

So anything this formula contains may or may not be a current ingredient in Dr. Pepper.


32 posted on 05/04/2009 8:24:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: mentor2k

Aren’t Mandrakes the plants that screamed in the Harry Potter books?


33 posted on 05/04/2009 8:28:03 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: a fool in paradise

The formula perhaps?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wvoLtwni0kc/Rd80GbrwWKI/AAAAAAAAGMg/wSyM9VLedLw/s1600-h/dplistcopymr0.jpg


34 posted on 05/04/2009 8:29:04 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: stainlessbanner

When I was a kid, Dr. Pepper had a very strong flavor. Not bad but not my favorite. I would drink one every now and then.

Around 1970, they changed the taste to a milder and imo better flaver. That is when sales took off and it became one of the more popular drinks.

I used to like cheerwine, it tasted like red hots, but I could only get it in North Carolina. I was talking to one of the delivery truck drivers who handled Cheerwine and he said they had changed the flavor six times since he had worked for them.


35 posted on 05/04/2009 8:36:17 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: mountainbunny
Give me Cheerwine any day.

Give you?

Buy your own soft drink.

36 posted on 05/04/2009 8:38:13 AM PDT by Glenn (Free Venezuela!)
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To: a fool in paradise

I doubt the current forumla is anything like what they use today.

The flavors today are produced by “natural flavors” which is a code word for chemicals. What makes they “natural” is they are derived from something natural. BFD. I doesn’t matter what you start with, if you process the heck out of it, it isn’t natural.

Splenda is technically a natural ingredient because it is made from sugar. Nattural? Hardly.


37 posted on 05/04/2009 8:52:35 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: stainlessbanner

I gotta think it has a lot of blackberry juice or plum juice in it. During the summer when the bees are buzzing around my blackberries and plum trees, they swarm around my empty Dr Pepper cans, too.


38 posted on 05/04/2009 8:55:51 AM PDT by ArtyFO (I love to smoke cigars when I adjust artillery fire at the moonbat loonery.)
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To: stainlessbanner

The Dr. Peppers from the Dublin plant, in glass bottles and utilizing real sugar, are MUCH, MUCH better than what is normally found. Every time I get one, it immediately takes me back to how they used to taste when I was a kid.

Along similar lines, Pepsi and Mountain Dew have come out with their so-called ‘throwback’ line (for a limited time), and indeed, I gave the Mountain Dew a try, and it too, was vastly preferable. Had that crisp taste I used to remember from decades back.


39 posted on 05/04/2009 8:56:19 AM PDT by greene66
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

rumored to have prune juice in it.


40 posted on 05/04/2009 9:04:43 AM PDT by machogirl (not one of Rush's top-ten gal names)
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