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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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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.
LOL! Glad I'm not the only one.
Yes, as best as I can taste Dr. Pepper is basically a cherry cola. The cherry versions of Pepsi and Coke are similar.
“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.
It has a vanilla note, but so does plain old Coca Cola.
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.
Dr Pepper has a cherry version. It isn’t much different from the regular.
I personally would vote beagle.
You say that like it's a bad thing....
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.
Aren’t Mandrakes the plants that screamed in the Harry Potter books?
The formula perhaps?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_wvoLtwni0kc/Rd80GbrwWKI/AAAAAAAAGMg/wSyM9VLedLw/s1600-h/dplistcopymr0.jpg
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.
Give you?
Buy your own soft drink.
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.
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.
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.
rumored to have prune juice in it.
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