by waaytoomuchintothis » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:57 pm
The pretty girl's shirt is from the Dublin, Texas Dr. Pepper plant, the only remaining producer of the original drink, patented in Waco Texas by a local pharmacist (the drug store is a Dr. Pepper Museum now). Under the contract terms for Dublin's plant, they can make the original drink forever. No one else is allowed to make Dr. Pepper that way. Everyone else has to make the newer, crappy drink that is now full of high fructose corn syrup that gives most people a bad aftertaste and ruins mixed drinks. The newer formula was inferior, but now its just awful. That is, if you ever tasted the original...