Posted on 01/12/2019 7:42:11 AM PST by rickmichaels
Rather than go to trial to defend its ginger content, Canada Dry ginger ale will no longer claim to be “Made from Real Ginger,” as part of a proposed settlement to a series of U.S. class action lawsuits over false advertising.
The company that makes the popular soft drink, Keurig Dr. Pepper, will also offer payments to people who purchased Canada Dry for personal use in the United States since 2013.
Those payments are capped at $5.20 per household without proof of purchase, and at $40 per household with proof of purchase, according to the proposed settlement, which does not apply to Canadian sales.
The company is now trying to give broad notice to anyone who might qualify for these payments, in anticipation of final court approval in April, according to Van Beckwith, a lawyer for Keurig Dr. Pepper.
That follows the decision of a California court last year to let the case proceed to trial, which was slated to begin this week. It would have aimed to resolve several related lawsuits from various states, from Massachusetts to Missouri.
The New York lawsuit, for example, alleges violations of state business law including “common law fraud, deceit and/or misrepresentation, breach of express and implied warranties and unjust enrichment.”
As a brand, Canada Dry dates to the 1890 opening of a carbonated water plant in Toronto by John J. McLaughlin. His “Canada Dry” Pale Ginger Ale was widely sold in Canada by 1904, and soon expanded to New York, where it was a popular mix for home brew liquor during Prohibition, and globally by the 1930s. New York remains its retail “heartland,” according to court records.
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Ooohhhhhh.....
I see.
You were dunking egg shells in various liquids to see how fast the liquid broke down the egg shell.
And the Dr Pepper was fastest.
This is probably why Grandma beat me when she caught me giving the chickens a taste of Dr Pepper.
Still waiting on my check from the tuna fish settlement. Don’t get your hopes up.
When we got sick my mom would always give us some ginger ale to settle our stomachs. I put ginger soda from Mexico in my homemade bbq sauce. The stuff is nuclear strong!
Livin’ large ; )
Does Dr. Pepper have real pepper?
The Verners we drank in the 60s was a totally different brewing and ageing process. I think it too, went the way of chem-cola.
Ginger was HOT!
I don’t care about the ginger issue, but if I find out it’s not all imported from Canada, I’m suing. In California, of course.
Hate to tell you but they all do it. It’s the carbonic acid from the carbonated water. It plays heck with calcium.
Oh no... It’s our favorite... Not quite as Ginger strong as the rest.
Oh Geez. I’m glad we got this straightened out.
And the bottom feeding shyster "lawyers" get how many millions?
Canada Dry is disgustingly awful.
When I want a ginger ale, it’s Schweppes.
Vernors all the way.
Sadly getting difficult to find.
And if you like it spicy hot there’s Bleneim. Not for me, I’ll stick with Vernors.
http://www.blenheimgingerale.com/
Amen to Vernors!
So you’re the lone Schweppes buyer.
I drink Dr Pepper and I’m proud.
>>And now I suppose we’ll find out Dr Pepper isn’t made from real doctors.
What about baby oil?
I think I may have a couple empty two liter bottles
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