Any one a big fan of Dr Pepper?

[DJ]

Try dropping some salted peanuts in a bottle of dr Pepper...been "drinkin" 'em like that since I was a kid....
dj

[4w BBQ]

Yes, we consider Dublin to be a regular stop!

[n2dabluebbq]

man can't believe i missed out on this. have four cases of the Dr in the cooler at all times. i drink it and the boy does too.
well gator definitely can't hardly wait to see what comes of this.

oh and are you doing the fiery food show?

[Gator]

oh and are you doing the fiery food show?

I had to pass this year - too many other commitments...hopefully we come back next year.

[n2dabluebbq]

will look for you next year then sir!

[smoque shack]

hey all,


newcomer here, but not to bbq. i live 1/2 mile from the only dr pepper plant who uses the original recipie for dr pepper. and yes you can tell the difference. i serve it in my restaurant in lake city co.

jeff heaton,"smoque shack bbq"....lake city co.

[CJATE]

noticed DR BBQ sauce at HEB yesterday...

I'm not a huge fan of sweet sauce, so i passed; but did think of this thread.


and SmoqueShack, you might can clam pure cane sugar in your DP,,, but Waco is the home; have the t-shirt to prove it (i joke, but no really it's home is Waco, it's about all we have)

[smoque shack]

cjat,

you are correct. it was invented in waco, but dublin is still the only place that still does the original recipe.[ ,y daughter works there], don't be down on waco too much....you still have the bears.....ouch! lol. just kidding bro.

[oldschoolbbq]

Being a native Temple boy Not only yeah,but H#ll yeah. Make a real good sauce too

[3 star redneck]

I was addicted to it for 25 yrs!....then I traded addictions to Diet Coke...

[cokeguy101]

Speaking of diet coke... need any?

We don't get too many diet coke logo'ed shirts etc or I would get a few for ya. I have not seen anything with diet coke on it in a while to be honest.

[Gator]

Just a little update here - looks like this project has met an unfortunate end...to bad, we had a good product ready to roll.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/01/11 ... -town.html

[Boots]

I have had 2 or 3 per week every week since about age three, so that's probably like several thousand bottles. When I was a little kid in the '60's, and before the Basses cleaned up downtown Fort Worth and the Stockyards got touristy, my dad would take me to the cattle auction that still existed on Exchange Street in the Stockyards in a corrugated sheet metal building where the rodeo building was later built (to match the old exchange building in style). My dad still knew stock agents in the "stock exchange"...back when that meant buying and selling cattle, not shares in Microsoft. My dad would always buy me a Dr Pepper, and it was all still made with pure cane sugar then. It was much thicker and more syrupy and real and better then than it is today, because now they put the cheap corn syrup in it instead. Occasionally, as a new dad, I would make a run down to the HEB Central Market down in Plano just to get a fix of the real stuff still made in Dublin so my son could have the same stuff his grandfather gave me.

That is until last month, when all this went down. I followed it pretty closely through the news. The DP corporate weenies and lawyers in Plano sued the Dublin bottling works and Jeff Kloster, their OLDEST independent bottler that had been operating on a license since the 1890's, and basically threatened to run them out of business if they didn't quit selling out of a six county area around Dublin. Mind you, people would call Kloster from all over the country and other countries for that matter just to order the stuff. Not his fault they were making a BETTER product. People who knew better didn't want the fake corn syrup stuff from DP corporate; they wanted the REAL stuff, only produced in Dublin. Instead of working WITH Dublin and this third generation family owned Texas bottler to replace the cheap corporate product with the better Dublin product that more people would want, they trotted out a bunch of corporate lawyers to intimidate the Dublin folks into submission or destroy their company if they resisted. And this, after the President of DP went on TV a couple of years ago PRAISING Dublin bottling works for their great product and benefit to the DP brand. Mind you, the DP lawyers were arguing technicalities to justify their arguments when they had allowed this practice to go on for decades, and when they should have been working on a marketing campaign that would have introduced more people to the better product and expanded the DP corporate business. As a businessman who runs a pretty large business, I'd say it's pretty dumb for a company whose stock price hasn't improved in 2 years and lost ground immediately by permanently alienating a big block of its most intensely loyal customers. Even dumber when you understand the fact that the Dublin bottler accounted for like a whopping 1/10th of 1% of the company's worldwide sales.

So after a long lifetime of consuming the stuff, like thousands of other Texans, I won't ever buy Dr Pepper again. Just my personal decision, and that includes their many other products like IBC Root Beer and 7up, etc. As far as I'm concerned, the DP corporate can go pound sand. Don't mess with a Texas institution.

But I tell you what I WILL be buying. Jeff Kloster and the Dublin Bottling Works are staging a comeback and will now be selling Triple XXX Root Beer, another 100+ year old name that I also remember from my childhood...it was GREAT. Looking forward to getting some more...may have to drive down to Dublin and spend some money in town to do it, too. And I bet there is probably a way to build a good mop out of rootbeer instead of Dr Pepper.

I'd urge everybody to read the following article in the Dallas Disturber and decide for yourself whether I am just a crackpot off on another one of my many rants, or whether this is a family and a business you feel like supporting. Sorry to lay down such a diatribe, just feel very strongly about this. Thanks.

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http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/cityofa ... loster.php" target="_blank