Soda
Steven fights the Man, or Doctor, specifically Dr. Pepper
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.