Dr. Pepper happens to be my favorite soft drink, and has been since I was a little kid. But it already claims to have 23 distinct flavors blended together, and dumping coconut and lime in it seems like overkill.
Anyway, my mom and brother went to her hometown to decorate graves a few weeks ago, and she mentioned stopping at “a carhop place that wasn’t A&W” for some food. I replied, “Sonic? That’s not food.” She chuckled.
Srsly? As kids, we used to say Dr Pepper was what you got if you took the remaining pop from every other flavor after they were bottled and mixed it together. Never knew that was true!
In my misspent youth in The Bronx, the guy at the soda fountain (my youth was a long time ago) would make us a “cherry coke” by mixing cherry-soda syrup (probably no actual cherries were harmed in its making) and Coke syrup and seltzer. Tasted a lot like Dr. Pepper, as I remember.