I guess you have to live here to appreciate it. The drink was the Dublin plant’s own, in that it kept the old-fashioned recipe going by using sugar when years ago all the others went to sucrose, or whatever they use. Now that it is so popular, Dublin Dr. Pepper bottling is having to give it up to the parent company and take their name off the product. The cans even had a picture and story of Mr. Kloster (now deceased) and how it all began. Granted, much of it has been bottled in another city now and shipped here, due to the antiquated plant couldn’t possible keep up with the demand. But it likely wouldn’t even be marketed if Dublin hadn’t kept the tradition going way back when.
I hope this very bad move by Dr. Pepper comes back to haunt them as bad as New Coke did to to Coca Cola some 30 years ago.
I’ve been to Dublin - I’ve tasted your Dr. Pepper. It reminded me of the sodas of my youth. I cannot drink the fructose sodas of today. ~Yuck~ I prefer the diet free sodas before I’ll dring a regular one.
But Dublin Dr. Pepper? It was original and it was good. The article did say they will still bottle the real (sugar) DP? Will they still keep the gift shop and soda fountain?