stevengharms

Dear Mr. Harms:

Thank you for contacting us about Dr Pepper Pure Cane Sugar.

We enjoy hearing from you and are especially pleased to learn of your satisfaction. We will pass on your compliments to both our marketing department and our research and development department so they can be made aware of the great job they are doing! We will also pass on your comments and concerns with the high fructose corny syrup used in our Regular Dr Pepper.

We hope you continue to enjoy Dr Pepper Pure Cane Sugar products.

Sincerely,

Consumer Relations

I live in Austin and as such I can get Dublin Dr. Pepper fairly easily: the kind with Imperial sugar.

Messieurs, Madames: Please, I beg of you, switch your formula (back) to this base.

It tastes right. I grew up as a kid drinking cold, glass bottles of this stuff on the porch of my great-grandmother’s house in New Mexico. When I taste the Dublin Dr. P. I get a fizzy bit of joy up in my naso-sinus region. It is pure bliss.

I don’t get that from main-line Dr. Pepper. Sure, it tastes good, but it’s not the Platonic ideal of Dr. Pepper that my memory tells me that it should be.

I weep for those kids of today who’ve known nothing but the HFCS-based Dr. Pepper.

Recent news reports that HFCS is loaded with mecury. Dr. P. could lead the way to switching away from this carbohydrate-bomb sweetner by switching back to good-old, made in the U-S-A sugar.

Please consider doing so.

Sincerely,

Steven Harms

Was a time that I ate out every night, or I ate spaghetti.

It’s called living in San Francisco, kids.

It’s been really hard for me to break this habit because, well, I love fajitas, enchiladas, burgers, sandwiches, salads, hot and sour soup, it’s all so tasty…but costly, fattening, and a host of other bad things. Lauren has helped put me on a bit more of a sensible regimen on this front.

Last night, in efforts to advance domestic bliss and sensible dining I made:

Apricot Pork Chops

They were quite good and I bought all of the ingredients for $21.00, far less than dinner for two.

Plus I have a ready reserve of apricot Smuckers, you never know when you’ll need that.

I get a Fiesta del Mar pitcher o’ Margaritas in my bloodstream.

Well, generally not a whole pitcher

Lucky guy…

It’s pretty tasty pho, though.