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Make it a Dublin DP

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I always thought it tasted like prunes.

[PetroniusMaximus]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090504/ap_on_re_us/us_dr_pepper_auction

[mountainbunny]

Yucky.

I don’t get the draw of Dr. Pepper. It always tastes like a stale cherry Coke to me.

Give me Cheerwine any day.

[Constitution Day]

How cool! I love me some Dr. Pepper.

[fso301]

Tastes like carbonated prune juice to me. Hard to pack a cooler full of laxatives for a day out fishing.

[Rightly Biased]

Dublin’s the best.

Bought at the Dublin store to boot.

[Red Badger]

My fav-o-rite drink!.................non-alcoholic, that is..............

[Texan Tory]

Do we really want to know the original formula? What if it turns out to be something like this:

—Per One Gallon—

4 cups sugar
15 cups waters
1/2 cup prune juice
3/10 ounce black shoe polish
2 ounces dog saliva

[a fool in paradise]

Hrumph. Probably tastes like New Coke.

[mentor2k]

"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.

[vox_freedom]

[yarddog]

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.

[ArtyFO]

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.

[greene66]

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.

[manic4organic]

Only native Texans can appreciate the nostalgic allure of an ice cold DP in the bottle. I don’t even drink sodas any more but I’ll break the rules for a Dublin DP.