Does Dr. Pepper taste like medicine?

1. Cherry

2. Vanilla

3. Almond

4. Plum

5. Blackberry

6. Raspberry

7. Apricot

8. Coriander

9. Clove

10. Amaretto

11. Anise

12. Caramel

13. Molasses

14. Birch Beer

15. Allspice

16. Ginger

17. Sasparilla

18. Sassafras

19. Juniper

20. Spikenard

21. Wintergreen

22. Burdock

23. Dandelion

I grew up fronking and loving Dr. Pepper and never thought it tasted medicinal until it was pointed out to me. I can kinda taste what people mean but it doesn't bother me at all. Dr. Pepper is great!

my dad is a foreigner and believes this iirc

I am a true american and do not

tastes like cough syrup

what delicious cough syrup have you been drinking

i grew up in england and love both dr. pepper and similarly divisive root beer (which mc donalds sold there for a while some years ago).

Whither Mr. Pibb?

I love Dr. Pepper and I don't think it tastes like medicine and I am an American.

what delicious cough syrup have you been drinking

I dunno, the shit that tastes like dr pepper?

american btw, inclined to believe there might be a north vs south aspect to all this.

DP is the best soda, no medicine I've had tastes like it, I am not American

http://www.metafilter.com/7654/Dr-Pepper-vs-Mr-Pibb

Root beer is grim tho

wait what is the regionalist thing w/ dr pepper, do southerners like it or not like it

isn't drinking cough syrup big down there

I also love rootbeer and cream soda. I love all of the olde fashioned soda flavors.

cream soda rulez

need to start importing my cough syrup

Love cream soda.

And I miss Mr. Pibb. Never, ever seen it anywhere in the northeast.

coke doesn't necessarily taste like a medicine i've had before but it's weird enough a flavor and not too tasty to me that it seems medicinal. dr pepper is a gift from the gods.

dr pepper is supposedly more popular than coke in texas.

wait what is the regionalist thing w/ dr pepper, do southerners like it or not like it

my guess is a lot more northerners will say it tastes like medicine than southerners

Yeah, Dr. Pepper does have a certain cherry cough-syrup similarity. It's no more than my 17th-favourite flavour of soda - although I did adopt the display name "Canadian Club & Dr. Pepper" for a few weeks back in 2011 or so.

(Not American. But close.)

rip dublin dr pepper
http://drinks.seriouseats.com/images/20120116-dublin-drpepper2.jpg

Dublin makes their own colas now! #neversurrender

i don't like Dr P, root beer, cream soda or coke unless they are magically transformed by hard liquor.

on the other hand, i will happily swig cough syrup so i guess the answer is no sir i do not think they taste the same

well i used to happily swill cough syrup until the UK became some hellhole of non-drowsy formula only

American, do not think Dr. Pepper tastes like medicine (unless by extension all cherry colas taste like that to you...)

You know what really tastes like medicine? Moxie! (New Englanders weigh in...)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_miGBtNTDMT0/R0DXhgVy4CI/AAAAAAAABP8/dRJyIFjfVVA/s400/Moxie.jpg

Oh my god no no no

do ppl actually drink cough syrup for fun or is that just a myth spread by articles about lester bangs?

when i was a teenager we would have a few chugs of Benylin before going out for the evening cos we thought it got you pissed quicker so yeah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_drank

People drank recreational Robotussin DM when I was in high school and college.

Mr. Pibb didn't need to go to med school to learn how to taste awesome and provide high amounts of caffeine. Mr. Pibb learned all that in a two year associates program at a community college. Mr. Pibb has his head on straight, & doesn't need the high stress environment of a medical practice. He cold chills it at various strange restaurants and the occasional independent vending machines. While he doesn't need any ostentatious flair, he still loves his brother, "Pibb XTRA," although they have had squabbles in the past about the exclusion of the letter E.

i used to find dimetapp chewables delicious

xxp yeah but that wasn't for the taste it was for the body high and occasional hallucinations

i used to find dimetapp chewables delicious

otm

i loved chewable vitamins Cs so much as a kid i'm seriously afraid to buy them as an adult for fear i'll just sit around eating them

There are a lot of internet theories about Dr. Pepper's secret ingredients (I had always heard prune juice was one; others deny this.) Here's a significantly different one than the OP:

1. Amaretto 2. Almond 3. Blackberry 4. Black Licorice 5. Carrot 6. Clove 7.Cherry 8. Caramel 9. Cola 10. Ginger 11. Juniper 12. Lemon 13. Molasses 14. Nutmeg 15. Orange 16. Prune 17. Plum 18. Pepper 19. Root Beer 20. Rum 21. Raspberry 22. Tomato 23. Vanilla.

Dr. Pepper is insidious, addictive, and evil. You all would do well to stay away from it.

Dr. Pepper: tastes like medicine, is awesome
Moxie: tastes even more like medicine, is even more awesome
(American)

I barely ever drink soda anymore unless it's got whiskey, rum or vodka in it, but man this thread is making me crave some Dr. Pepper, root beer, and cream soda!

Best root beer: IBC or Virgil's
Best Dr Pepper: Dr Pepper
Best cream soda: no cream soda

i don't think i can actually tell the difference between root beer and cream soda

xp I was with you until the cream soda part.

love dr pepper. it tastes like lipstick!

Moxie is a crime. It's fucking liquid marmite.

Dr Pepper (there's no period in the name because that's how the good Dr rolls) is delicious. And now that I live in Dr Pepper country I don't feel as much like a weirdo for loving it like I did in New England.

imo Dr Pepper does not taste like medicine but I infrequently buy cans of Old Jamaica Grape Soda largely because it tastes like medicine

And I miss Mr. Pibb. Never, ever seen it anywhere in the northeast.

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 4:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mr. Pibb is only available in areas where the local Coca-Cola bottler doesn't distribute Dr. Pepper, or something like that.

I've never seen Moxie sold outside the northeast US. I have no idea if I really like the flavor, but it reminds me of my two pleasant summers in Maine when I was a teenager so I like drinking it the few times i'm somewhere it's sold.

The period (full stop) after "Dr" was discarded for stylistic and legibility reasons in the 1950s. Dr Pepper's logo was redesigned and the text in this new logo was slanted. The period made "Dr." look like "Di:". After some debate, the period was removed for good (it had been used off and on in previous logos).[7]

had a birch beer float last night

Where's ENBB's report on her first taste of birch beer? I'm on pins and needles.

xpost to Stevie re. Virgil's. i think i ran into the carbonation issue once when i bought Virgil's that hadn't been refrigerated. with ice it usually is good though. i value the complexity of Virgil's, there seems to be more going on there. subtleties.

I mean I buy it on the shelf fron Trader Joe's and put it in my fridge when I get home, but having worked stock in a natural foods store and actually checking in cases of Virgil's I can tell you that they are shipped and almost always stored at room temperature and put in cold cases like when the cold case needs to be refilled.

We also were once mistakenly sent a case of Virgil's Dr. Better and decided to just sell it rather than send it back. It was not better than Dr. Pepper.

maybe i am just enamored by the fancy label.

i don't drink virgil's regularly at all though. i gave up soda for the most part years ago.

Where's Dr. Good in all this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XHcPYorSJw

I was thinking more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLTETaWswCY

Cher's G, T, & T, btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZGiZEVMzg

Where's ENBB's report on her first taste of birch beer? I'm on pins and needles.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, June 24, 2013 8:38 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I tired to get it on Sunday but Shaw's didn't carry it! I have to go to Market Basket for this shit. I promise it will happen soon.

thanks for the update!

lol "Market Basket"

that sounds the name of a co-op that would be in a Christopher Guest film.

http://i.imgur.com/gH8vcB0.jpg

it's on

woohoo!

i know that's the natural color but it just makes me think

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Crystal-pepsi.jpg

it's ~chilling~.

Make sure it's ice cold. Gets weird when warm.

I've decided Rocky Mountain Soda Co. Evergreen Elderberry soda is the baseline for medicinal beverages. Really borderline horrible cough syrup taste that seems like it needs to be mixed with alcohol, or maybe gasoline. And ignited.

I have an inhuman sensitivity to licorice flavors because I hate them, but I do adore Dr Pepper so I'll rep for the secret flavor not being licorice.

You know what does taste like medicine is this imported can of Grape Fanta I just bought from the South African shop up the road
http://www.southafricanshop.co.uk/assets/thumbnails/products/19317/large/CCJL083C.jpg?1327355572

(this flavour doesn't exist in the UK as far as I know. Found some USian Grape Fanta while image-googling too, no idea if that tastes the same. This one tastes of cough mixture/children's medicine with a disturbing aroma and aftertaste of rotting/fermenting grain which made me check the use by date.)

I now realize ENBB didn't report back on her birch beer experience. This is a travesty.

I am drinking a can of Dr Pepper right now. It is quite delightful. But not as good as it is over ice with a squeeze of lemon.

Oh, I meant to report that (sic) had some birch beer while he was visiting and his assessment was that it tasted like root beer \(o_O)/

I'll get him some cane sugar Dr. Pepper while he's here in Texas (RIP, Dublin Dr. Pepper) and see if he thinks that tastes like root beer too.

double WHAT?
for fucks sake, DOUBLE WHAT???

http://i.imgur.com/YXdXM8H.jpg

Oh, I meant to report that (sic) had some birch beer while he was visiting and his assessment was that it tasted like root beer \(o_O)/

― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, July 10, 2013 6:03 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's exactly what I thought. Tasted like clear root beer to me tbh.

Sorry, dudes.

picked up boylans og and creamy red today
because of this thread
first taste of birch beer

eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwww

well done for including nature (birch)

birch beer should have a much sharper taste than root beer wtf 0_o

this world is big enough for both root beer and birch beer, imo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIRnM6s4GNo

That's a very endearing video.

I've had Elisir Novasalus and it tastes like Dr Pepper AND medicine and I sorta recommend it?

I grew up fronking and loving Dr. Pepper

― ed ASMR (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, June 12, 2013 3:38 PM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My first experience drinking DP had it served hot, and as far as I knew it was meant to be served only this way. This was probably 1966 or 67, and it may have been another couple years before I had it again. It seems weird now, but I think this was a thing back then. Anyone else hear of drinking it hot?

― nickn, Monday, June 17, 2013 5:53 PM

That used to advertise it hot

http://images1.houstonpress.com/imager/u/original/6404782/2863092253_38fea1f19a_z.jpg

that sounds like roasted rat ass

http://images2.houstonpress.com/imager/u/original/6404783/1495601949_6f3d5952f9.jpg

granted they probably made it w/ cane sugar back then

holy shit my friend just sent me this video out of nowhere and it is a doozy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIRnM6s4GNo

OMG HOLY SHIT!!!!

(jk, just scroll up to the revive 2 days ago)

anyway, you wanna heat up a pan... or, anything...

ugh fuck

i didn't watch it bcz I was at work and then I forgot that was the revive!

"glass-glass" glass made of GLASS

when glass melts, it's... the glass. yeah.