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
i also favor Dr. Pepper over the other main dark colas but also dabble in Mr. Pibb and the occasional Dr. B so i am probably not up to the purist standard that your biography would suggest you are.
Mr. Pibb is not an appropriate substitute. Also, Steven: Concur. Though, I prefer normal Dr. Pepper from he can than anything else. I think I’m addicted to dissolved aluminum. Think that’s bad?
I only recently learned of Dublin Dr. Pepper, while Ms. Landes was living with us. And didn’t try it until November.
It is far, far better than standard issue Dr. Pepper, and I don’t understand why they wouldn’t sell it side-by-side in the markets. Although, I saw you can now get it at a corner store near my brother’s house, and I know you can get it at Rudy’s.