I’ve never tried Dr Pepper until recently and it has an interesting favor. I couldn’t quite place what it was but it was something familiar, like it was something I’ve tried before. Nowadays, you see commercials having people who never tried it asking those who did, ‘what does it taste like’ and those people always respond, ‘like Dr Pepper’.
It doesn’t help to answer the major question but you get the point. There’s no other soda that contains Dr Pepper favor. For some people they have their own guesses of what that “favor” really is. Some say it’s cherry, others say it’s a root beer, some say it’s prunes, and there are others that say it’s a mixture, such as artificial cherry and almonds.
I finally decided that the closest taste of Dr Pepper is a cherry-like cough medicine, well if it was turned into a soda. When you think about it, it actually might be close to the favor then one thinks because when you look back into the history of Dr Pepper it makes sense.
“Pepper is a “native Texan,” originating at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store. It is the oldest of the major brand soft drinks in America. Like its flavor, the origin of Dr Pepper is out-of-the-ordinary. Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist working at Morrison’s store, is believed to be the inventor of the now famous drink. Alderton spent most of his time mixing up medicine for the people of Waco, but in his spare time he liked to serve carbonated drinks at the soda fountain. He liked the way the drug store smelled, with all of the fruit syrup flavor smells mixing together in the air. He decided to to create a drink that tasted like that smell. He kept a journal, and after numerous experiments he finally hit upon a mixture of fruit syrups that he liked.”
That was how Dr Pepper came to be.
 DamnBlackHeart · Thu Jan 05, 2012 @ 08:16pm · 0 Comments |
