Drinks You Wish You Could Have Again (like Mountain Dew)

[llamame]

Originally Posted by nicks

Yeah - just didn't know if the 'suicide' moniker was one that others would know.

Not I.

[weinberg81]

When I was growing up in Montreal, Quebec, there was a small restaurant that used to make a homemade cherry coke. This was before the real Cherry Coke came out. Pure goodness, lots of cherry syrup and coke.....alas, I haven;t had one in almost 20 years.

[snavem]

I've never actually loved a drink and then lost it - but im sticking to Dr Pepper and Pepsi so i will never have to lost a drink - those 2 are the best drinks ever.

On the Fanta matter- it seems absurd that they dont sell it over in the US...

[llamame]

Although I highly enjoy this thread, I happily gave up soda (although I'll probably occasionally drink it again) this summer.

[trmcculloch]

Dr. Pepper is awful!!!!!!!!!!

[Yuiichi]

Originally Posted by trmcculloch

Dr. Pepper is awful!!!!!!!!!!

I concur. I tried it once, and couldn't finish it. Doesn't really suit my tastes.

I'm more of a root beer/diet coke person myself. I also really enjoy a citrus beverage called Ting - anyone ever try it?

[trmcculloch]

coke zero was a good improvement on diet coke in my oppinion

[divigation]

Dr. Pepper is wonderful! I am biased as my grandfather was the treasurer of DP and so I was basically weaned off my mother and on to the stuff. No offense, but considering that the complainers are in foreign lands, you haven't really had DP anyhow. International Pepper hasn't been made by DP since the 80s and is thus highly inconsistent in its recipe. Not that this would change your opinion of it as it is definitely for a specific taste. Being down here in Dallas allows me the great satisfaction of drinking Dublin DP, still made with real cane sugar. That is in fact what I am drinking now, and usually what I am drinking when I am posting about in these pages.

[trmcculloch]

Originally Posted by divigation

Dr. Pepper is wonderful! I am biased as my grandfather was the treasurer of DP and so I was basically weaned off my mother and on to the stuff. No offense, but considering that the complainers are in foreign lands, you haven't really had DP anyhow. International Pepper hasn't been made by DP since the 80s and is thus highly inconsistent in its recipe. Not that this would change your opinion of it as it is definitely for a specific taste. Being down here in Dallas allows me the great satisfaction of drinking Dublin DP, still made with real cane sugar. That is in fact what I am drinking now, and usually what I am drinking when I am posting about in these pages.

We did have Dr Pepper for about 10 years but it died off after wasting what i can only imagine what was a fair bit of money spent on trying to market the stuff to Australians.
This was from about 1990-2000ish - 20 million people voted with their wallets and I suspect the only reason it survives in the US is because it is such a large market that they only need to get .5% of people liking it and they have 15 million customers.

[divigation]

Dr Pepper is the 3rd highest selling soda in the US, #1 for non-cola drinks...