[mhking]

I never could stand the taste of carbonated prune juice.

I'd never heard Dr. Pepper described that way!

ROTFL...

How about Vanilla Coke? Diet? Decaf?

[Grampa Dave]

The old Doctor Pepper was a big shot of sugar, prune juice and the carbonated water.

My granddad was put on Prune Juice by his doctor, and he hated Prune Juice and drank the Dr Pepper instead and got the same results.

My grandmother hated the Dr Pepper and bought RC Cola so she and we grand kids would have something to drink.

[San Jacinto]

Now, listen here, young man.

Dr. Pepper is the national drink of Texas (Well, along with Shiner and Lone Star long necks.)

True believer Texans are required to take a pilgrimage at least once to Dublin, Texas where the 100 year old Dr. Pepper bottling plant is the last place on earth which still uses the original recipe for Dr. Pepper involving pure cane sugar. THE RECIPE NEVER INVOLVED PRUNE JUICE. That myth got started because a Waco pharmicist invented the drink and it was marketed for many years as having some sort of medicinal benefit. The 10, 2, and 4 (o'clock) slogan and trade-mark meant that drinking a Dr. Pepper at those intervals would "pep" one up.

Now I am going to lunch. I have a sudden urge for a large chicken-fried steak with cream gravy, a bowl of pinto beans and chase it down with a frosty bottle of Dr. Pepper. That's the best way I know for a Texan to celebrate a bright, sunny eighty degree day with a Republican majority in the Senate!