About time. Used to love Dr. Pepper until it went with the fructose like all the other big colas. None of them taste nearly as good with fructose as they do with sugar. Which is why my wife buys me several bottles of Coke with sugar.
Dr. Pepper cold enough to have a little ice, a glass bottle and real sugar. Doesn’t get any better.
The plant in Dublin Texas never stopped using sugar when the switch to corn syrup occurred. You can find it in most stores for about 100 miles around.
The bottling plant itself is worth a tour too if you ever wind up near there.
For the “less fortunate” :) members of this great country not living close to Waco, DP with real sugar can be ordered online from the Dublin, Texas plant.
http://www.olddocs.com/results.aspx?cat=Drinks&subcat1=Dr+Pepper&subcat2=Made+with+Sugar
Many stores in Texas now carry it as well. But it is expensive compared to the fake stuff.
Nothing tastes as good as it used to, now that HCFS is used - soda, candy, cake, you name it. Hershey’s is nasty now that they use no real sugar, and don’t get me started on Hostess products.
I worked in the food industry for over 10 years, on the manufacturing side. HCFS is used because it’s *sweeter* than sugar, and food makers know that the sweeter food is, the more people will buy it - and HCFS is cheap, because of our Federal subsidies. So it’s no surprised all food is loaded with it. I went lo carb years ago, and got in the habit of reading food labels - HCFS is in every thing, or it seems like it. Even deli meat is cured with it.
Luckily, i prefer the taste of diet sodas, so diet Dr. Pepper is fine with me, as is diet Coke - and in moderation. My drink of choice is coffee, and I’m fine with plain old soda water with ice on hot days - maybe throw some Crystal Lite in for fun.
I also tend to favor savory and peppery over sweet, so I don’t miss all of the cloyingly over-sweet food everyone seems to like.
Re sugar Coke; around here with our heavy hispanic demographic, you can buy what's called "Mexican Coke"....haven't tried it because of where it's likely bottled.
You can still get Dr. Pepper made with real sugar—all the time. It’s called “Dublin Dr. Pepper” and is bottled in Dublin, Texas.