All Things Dr Pepper
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Dr Pepper Rocks!
One of the first soft drinks in the United States, Dr Pepper debuted in Waco, TX in 1885. I have never found a good way to describe what Dr Pepper tastes like, but I can assure you it not a cola and it is not prune juice.
You might notice that I don't put a period after the Dr in the Dr Pepper. While it's true that there used to be a dot after the doctor, as you can see from the picture of the bottle cap, a change in font in the 1950s forced the removal of the offending dot.
Read on for more information. If you are just here looking for t-shirts, I have some on the bottom of this lens.
You might notice that I don't put a period after the Dr in the Dr Pepper. While it's true that there used to be a dot after the doctor, as you can see from the picture of the bottle cap, a change in font in the 1950s forced the removal of the offending dot.
Read on for more information. If you are just here looking for t-shirts, I have some on the bottom of this lens.
You've Got Questions?
They've Got Answers!
- The Dr Pepper Website
- The one and only Dr Pepper site (though not necessarily the best place to find answers).
- The Highly Unofficial Dr Pepper FAQ
- Intensively researched information.
- What Wikipedia Says
- Because somehow, Wikipedia always knows.
- "Answers" Answers
- This is a hodgepodge of facts from Answers.com about Dr Pepper.
- A Short History of Dr Pepper
- A wonderfully concise and to the point history of the drink on About.com.
Say It Ain't So!
Debunking Dr Pepper Urban Legends
- I Pledge . . . .
- Snopes (best urban legend debunking site in the whole wide web) explains how Dr Pepper did not, in the aftermath of 9/11, produce a patriotic can of soda that left out the words "under God" from the pledge of allegiance. They produced a patriotic can of soda whose only non-soda words were "One Nation . . . Indivisible" along with an iconic image of the Statue of Liberty. If only they had used a comma instead of an ellipses (those three . . . dots), this probably would have been avoided. Punctuation counts, kids. Punctuation counts.
- No Prunes Here
- Snopes may not know what Dr Pepper contains, but they know what it doesn't contain - prunes.
Dr Pepper on Amazon
Things that aren't books.
I also recently found the OFFICIAL Dr Pepper Store, where you can get t-shirts, caps, gifts and decor (like a single ring barstool with swivel). Check it out here: Dr Pepper Store Front.
How much of your soda drinking is Dr Pepper drinking?
How well you tolerate other sodas.
Some people like Dr Pepper. Some people love Dr Pepper. Some people can't tell the difference between Mr Pibb and Dr Pepper (?!!?) and some people still insists it tastes like prunes. Some people drink cola instead.
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Dr Pepper, The Official Sponsor of . . .
- ...Houston, TX.
- ...Dallas, TX.
- ...the Oklahoma State Fair.
- ...the Gregg County State Fair.
- ...the largest prize won by Evelyn Ryan (also known as The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio).
- ...the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Youth Award with Community Service, for students committed to bettering their community.
- ...Big 12 Conference Football Championship.
- . . . NASCAR #50.
- ...The Amateur Athletic Union.
- ...the Baylor [University] Bears.
- ...the Army/Navy game on December 4, 2004. (The first official soft drink of an Army/Navy game ever.)
- ...Grapevine High School (near Dallas, TX).
- ...a celebriduck (a rubber ducky) in the likeness of the Indianapolis Firebirds' Raymund Philyaw. No, seriously.
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...Chely Wright's CD The Metropolitan Hotel
release-week CD signings at Walmart. - ...Associated Colleges of Illinois' Road to Success essay contest (2005).
- ...Excellence in Advertising on Television and Radio awards (2002).
- ...the fourth annual "What's Wrong With This Episode? April Fool's Contest" for The Drew Carey Show (2001).
- ...Songahm Taekwondo World Millennium Expo (June, 2000).
- ...spot on WHOO-AM (part of the ABC radio network) show in 1967 which gave little known facts about US Presidents.
- ...Dick Clark's Celebrity Party (1963).
- ...Texas State Fair.
- ...Dallas Stars Dr Pepper Golf Classic.
Books and Food Related Items about Dr Pepper
There are a lot of articles available as well, but these books are the books that look the most interesting. And also, some food items that you might not be able to pick up at your local grocery store. Feel free to buy something and send it to me. Or, you know, keep it.
You thought YOU liked Dr Pepper?
fan sites
- Dr Pepper 10-2-4 Club
- The Dr Pepper 10-2-4 Club is a national organization of people dedicated to the study of the history and collecting of memorabilia of the Dr Pepper Company. Annual dues are $25. They are now affiliated with the Dr Pepper Museum.
They even have a yearly convention. - Bring Dr Pepper Back to Australia
- For Aussies to petition Cadbury Schweppes to return the sweet nectar to the land down under.
- Google's alt.fan Newsgroup
- You can subscribe to the group to get messages emailed to you, or you can just visit and read what fans are saying. Unfortunately, it's not a very active site, but the history is fun to look at.
Vintage Dr Pepper Items on eBay
Famous People Who Drink Dr. Pepper
They Want to Be a Pepper Too
If you know of someone who drinks this fabulous concoction, please let me know and I will add him or her to the list.
- Michael Ian Black
- The Dixie Chicks
- Tom Hanks
- Celia Cruz
- Garth Brooks
- LL Cool J
- Smokey Robinson
- LeAnn Rimes
- Reba McEntire
- Paulina Rubio
- Run DMC
- Rutland, VT City Fire Chief Robert Schlachter
- Princeton Senior High's Golf Team (Princeton, WV)
You Oughtta Be in Pictures
Prominent Product Placements
- Forrest Gump drinks Dr Pepper
- When Forrest is in the White House, he has a lot of Dr Pepper. This links to an interesting article.
- Spiderman 2 (US version)
- Dr Pepper's logo appeared in the U.S. version of "Spider-Man 2" from Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures, on the refrigerator in the pizza shop
where Peter Parker works. But overseas, the logo on the refrigerator belonged to Mirinda, a fruit- flavored soft drink brand that
Pepsico markets outside the U.S. - Cast Away
- But I won't tell you when, because I don't want to spoil anything.
- X-Men 2
- Because the good Dr has special abilities of his own.
- Blast from the Past
- ATKINSON
The neighbors over there said the guy
spent day and night out here. She'd
bring him sandwiches and hot Dr.
Pepper.
LEVY
He drank it hot?
ATKINSON
Yeah.
LEVY
Good god.
ATKINSON
Yeah. - Panic Room
- Right towards the beginning of the film, after the mother and daughter have moved into a new place (that has the titular Panic Room), they order in pizza. The mom has a glass of wine, but the daughter has . . . Coca Cola. But if you click on the link, you'll see that the script called for Diet Dr Pepper.
- Student Bodies
- Thanks for the heads-up Keith! Dr Pepper is everywhere in this film.
- Snakes on a Plane
- I haven't been able to confirm this, but I did find a reference to DP in the book that the movie is based on.
Vote on Your Favorite Dr. Pepper
There are a bunch of versions - which is the best?
1
Dr Pepper
10 points
2
Diet Dr Pepper
2 points
3
Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper
2 points
4
Red Fusion
Only available 2002 - 2004.2 points
5
Caffeine Free Dr Pepper
1 point
6
Caffeine Free Diet Dr Pepper
1 point
7
Cherry Vanilla Dr Pepper
0 points
8
Berries & Cream Dr Pepper
0 points
9
Diet Berries & Cream Dr Pepper
0 points
Dr Pepper in the Blogosphere
- The Knowledge For Thirst
- Soda reviews, juice reviews, beverage reviews, a beverage-centric website by two gentlemen who really enjoy juices and sodas. This link will take you directly to everything they say about Dr Pepper.
Who Loves Dr Pepper Right Now?
on Twitter, that is
- Cherry dr. Pepper. Yum
- RT @foxglovesx: @BrennanXXX unless someone supplies me dr pepper for the rest of my lyfe so I can share with @bitedown_
- @vanessag093 ha your obsessed with Dr pepper like i am to coca cola ...
- i am dying today. so sleepy for some reason. need dr pepper.
- Dr.pepper sounds soo good right now (:
Dr Pepper Internationally
Places you can buy Dr Pepper in different countries around the world. If you know of others, let me know.
- Dr Pepper in Japan
- Interesting article about Dr Pepper in Japan.
- Buy Dr Pepper in Japan
- Oddly enough, this is a Coca-Cola site, but you can buy Dr Pepper here and you have a good variety of sizes as well.
- Buy Dr Pepper in France
- I think this is located in France. It's kind of hard to tell.
Dr Pepper T-Shirts
So many of you come here looking for Dr Pepper T-shirts , but there aren't that many on Amazon, which is where I would get mine. Another place to find them:
Old Doc's
and, of course, ebay, which I will include below this.
Old Doc's
and, of course, ebay, which I will include below this.
Dr Pepper Slogans
- Wouldn't You Like to be a Pepper Too? (Be a Pepper.)
- King of Beverages.
- Be You.
- Just What the Dr Ordered.
- Dr Pepper, It Makes the World Taste Better.
- America's Most Misunderstood Soft Drink.
- Drink a bite to eat.
A Dr Pepper Place to Visit
The Dr Pepper Museum
I haven't been here yet, because I have never been to Waco, but I'd like to go.The Dr Pepper Museum is 18,500 square feet and offers three floors of exhibits. There is a scaled recreation of the Old Corner Drugstore (where Dr Pepper was first mixed) complete with a talking animatron of Doc Alderton (Dr Pepper creator). Bottling equipment, containers, and an interior artesian well are also featured, along with 25 years of Dr Pepper commercials. Other exhibits include soft drink marketing and advertising campaigns, as well as a recreation of a 1930s country store.
Miscellaneous
These things all have to do with Dr Pepper, but they seem to defy catagorization.
- Dr Pepper Junior Rangers
- Be a Junior Ranger with the Texas Rangers. But not in 2011 because they are already filled up. As the name implies, this program is for kids.
- Online Petition to Make Dr Pepper Available in every restaurant
- According to the write of the petition, "Dr.Pepper should be an option for people when choosing the right drink in any restaurant. What is wrong with people? Do they think Dr.Pepper isn't good enough . . . "
- Pepper Your Community
- The winners of an old Dr Pepper contest where people nominated other people in their community who made a difference.
This is part of their whole "23" campaign, which I don't think is working very well. It eludes to Dr Peppers secret blend of 23 flavors. - Sign Up To Be An Dr Pepper Honorary Ball Kid!
- ...with the Dallas Mavericks. It looks like this link takes you straight to the Dallas Mav's site when there aren't any openings left.
- If I drank 268 Dr Peppers in one sitting, I would die from the caffeine.
- How much of your favorite caffeinated drink would it take to kill you? Take this quick test and find out. (Differs by weight and type of drink, of course.)
Thoughts? Concerns? Questions? Comments?
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marsha32 May 23, 2012 @ 11:30 pm | delete
- I love my Dr. Pepper!
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davespeed
Jan 13, 2012 @ 11:58 pm | delete
- Okay, I think the universe is trying to get me to start drinking Dr Pepper. First, I'm watching the BCS National Championship football game last Monday and see a GREAT commercial for Dr Pepper. It's so good I text a friend of mine who I know is watching the game to see if he saw the commerical. He did...he texted me back that it made him want to run to the store to get some Dr Pepper. Secondly, I find this lens about Dr Pepper. Before reading it, I go to the kitchen to get something to drink. I drink Diet Coke. I discover I'm out of Diet Coke. But, wait! There are some of my sister-in-law's Dr Peppers in the fridge. I get one and come back to read this lens. And then I find out all of these delightful tidbits about Dr Pepper while I'm enjoying a refreshing can of the stuff. The result of all of this: I would like to be a Pepper, too.
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Einsteinium
May 22, 2012 @ 10:34 am | delete
- And now you are! Hope you still enjoy it. Do you remember which commercial it was?
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EliseJune
Jan 2, 2012 @ 6:11 pm | delete
- Loaf,Have you gone to the Dr Pepper Convention that is held in Waco in March?
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Loaf
Jan 2, 2012 @ 1:35 pm | delete
- I live an hour and a half away from Dublin, Tx and 2 and a half hours away from Waco. I love DP and drink the stuff all the time. Try it with Imperial Pure Cane sugar!
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Finance and Corporate
- Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.
- Dr Pepper used to be owned by Cadbury Schweppes, but no more. Say hello to DPS. Dr Pepper Snapple.
- Information from Hoovers - a Dun & Bradstreet Company
- Some free information about the Key People, the Key Competitors, the Key Numbers, etc., but mostly it is trying to get you to subscribe to their in depth service. Still, it's worth a look if you have the interest.
Waco, TX, Home of Dr Pepper
I'm a Pepper
I love Dr Pepper; it's the best. When I tried to find a lens on it, none existed. I thought to myself, "How is that possible? That's just wrong. I must remedy the situation immediately."
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Dr Pepper T-Shirt
One of Many
Dr Pepper - Im A Pepper T-Shirt
Amazon Price: (as of 05/30/2012)
There are scores of Dr Pepper t-shirts, all of may be worth having, but for my money, the best is the one that I grew up with and is instantly recognizable. I'm a Pepper!
Vintage Dr Pepper
Dr. Pepper Sign
Amazon Price: $11.89 (as of 05/30/2012)
Many people enjoy Dr Pepper collectibles, especially all things vintage. Sadly, that is not my forte, and I can tell you that you won't find a lot of things on Amazon (the item above, though, is often in stock). Ebay is an okay place to find them, but the best are antique stores, thrift stores and yard sales.
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