Can John Green distinguish Dr Pepper from other similar drinks just by taste? I certainly couldn't, as I dislike carbonated drinks and I also avoid sugar and cold drinks. The first time I drank Dr Pepper, I thought it tasted like a mix of a root beer and a cola. Not that there's anything wrong with that. The distinctive taste of Dr Pepper has been copied, with varying levels of success, by just about every soft drink producer we have. Dr Pepper is supposed to be a blend of 23 flavors that only three people are privy to, and few guess sassafras as I do. The company says, however, that there is no prune juice in the drink, as was rumored. (via Metafilter)
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Dr Pepper Taste Test
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Does your dislike of carbonated drinks include sparkling water?
That's all I drink from cans nowadays. Waterloo Black Cherry is my favorite, but I like all of them. The Black Cherry is so good it is hard to believe it has no calories.
If there was prune juice, they would have called it Dr. Pooper.
Sparkling water just doesn't sound like its worth the price. I don't buy bottled water, since I have a tap.
Huge fan of Polar Seltzer and it's many flavors. It's the carbonization that does it I guess. Since I made that switch I've pretty much eliminated all soda drinking. And while I don't always drink soda, when I do, I drink Moxie. It's what's good for you. Yum!
Supposedly the CO2 in the sparkling water turns to carbonic acid and damages your teeth (if you drink this stuff constantly).
The switch to electric cars is all about not putting more CO2 in the air.
I don't know how many carbonated drinks equals a gallon of gasoline, probably a lot, but it does seem counterproductive.
-chuckle- Aside from the fact that too much
of anything will kill you, all of the 'studies'
around the harmful effects of carbonized
drinks originated with soda, i.e., pop, and
then were carried over to sparkling water.
My personal favorite is soda causes bone
damage. Not because soda, but because many
people switched to soda and stopped drinking
milk. If, however, you are worried, then
1) don't drink and swish it around in your
mouth as if it's a mouth-wash, and/or
2) use a straw. Obviously, I accept the risk.
Carbonic acid is a very weak acid and I doubt it harms teeth. It occurs naturally n the mouth anyway, since some CO2 you generate is absorbed by the water in saliva.
The real problem is the phosphoric acid put into colas and a few other soft drinks ('pop' to many of you). That can damage teeth long-term, and also promotes bone loss in older people. I don't use sugar and stay away from artificial sweeteners, so I gravitated to sparking water. It's cheaper than soda and much healthier. I usually get mine from Costco, at about $0.25 a can, although Waterloo costs more. For me, it's a guilt pleasure with minimal guilt. I'm drinking a Kirkland grapefruit SW as I type this.
Polar Seltzer grapefruit anything is awesome. Someone should do a story on how they do that. Osmosis? What magic is this that you get flavored water with no additives/chemicals?
xoxoxoBruce: Just an FYI, one gallon of gas produces about 19 lbs of CO2. A can of soda contains 2-3 gms of CO2 sooo, 1 gallon of gas produces enough CO2 for over 2,800 cans of soda.
> Carbonic acid is a very weak acid and I doubt it harms teeth.
And yet, you'd be wrong.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=CARBONATED+DRINKS+AND+TEETH
Anon, thank you for the info on gas vs soda, I love stuff like that! :o)
I tried a Dr.Pepper recently (they are rare in this, foreign to you, country of mine) ... I nearly gagged from the amount of sweetness in the first sip.
I swear I got diabetes from that one sip.
I threw the rest away.
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