Dr. Pepper does not taste like cherry
Okay please guys...please. I want responses. Does Dr. Pepper taste Cherry-ish? I want an informal poll. I'm outright against such a catergorization of the beautious Dr., but I have teammates who insist it is a "cherry"- type soda. My arguments are two fold. It does not say cherry on the ingredients list (granted this is a relatively weak argument since ingredient lists are prietary). But a much better argument is that Dr. Pepper came out with Dr. Pepper Red Fusion which is a "burst of cherry flavor." My antagonists believe this is like saying an "extra burst of cherry" or "more cherry than before." Give me your opinions.
We are in Casper, WY. Pretty cool town. I'm on dial-up modem right now and have been on for almost two hours doing things I need to do as well as social communication such as this blog. I'm totally having a rocking time guys. We are getting into the swing of things and it really is a fantastic thing to be doing for a year. I'm meeting a lot of cool people in the towns we go to. I met a family that won a trip to New Zealand to see the sets that are left from LOTR!!! I saw pictures of the hobbit holes that were left and things. They also went to a national park where much of rivendale was shot! totally sweet.
I bought eternal sunshine, enough said.
Jill thx for the comments about me being hot. Shannon, I totally need to give you a call but my cell phone has not had service for awhile now. I'm getting it checked out today at the mall.
We went to Village Inn last night, just the guys from my team. It was so glorious to be ordering a Pecan Roll French Toast Combo with scrambled eggs with cheese on top and bacon strips. For those of you who don't know VI was my place in college. Yes, mine. Like the show Cheers and stuff for me.
We went through South Dakota over the past week. Stopping and playing various places. I got to see the Badlands again, and I saw Wall Drug which I hadn't seen before. It was cool. And I have many pictures that I will try and post sometime this week.
My team is totally losening up. The rigidness of a new Christian-charged environment where everyone is walking on egg shells trying not to offend each other is finally beginning to wear off as we all know each other's joking boundries better etc. We are finding our common ground very well I feel. There are some members of my team I can see myself getting thoroughly annoyed with down the road but, meh.
I miss a lot of things right now. I couldn't see my bro play his show, I couldn't see Julie crowned homecoming queen, I can't believe I'm missing Jenny in rockford with Noah, I'm going to miss door county sooooo much, I miss the apple orchard with all yall. 2 weeks at Christmas, especially in leui (spelling?) of all I have to do in that time (packing for Australia, studying and taking my GREs, grad school aps), is not nearly enough time. Ah well.
So we have a huge empty gap in our bookings right now. Do any of you know people who live in the North West who would want a Youth Encounter team to play at their church or at least stay at their house? I thought about Kerstin but she's in Europe right?
I know this wasn't much of an update, but I gotta go.
peace,
in Christ,
jason
posted by Jason @ 2:23 PM
6 Comments:
Jason: I believed that we have had this discussion of Dr. Pepper before, some even claimed that it was carbonated prune juice (yeah, I know people are stupid). I must say that I personally never got a "cherry" feeling from Dr Pepper, but I can understand this point of view (more than the prune juice point of view at least, which is far more common than you may think) because it tastes somewhat similar to Cherry Coke, which doesn't taste like cherries to me either. We researched this on the internet before and found this under FAQ's at the Dr Pepper site:
Dr Pepper is a “native Texan,” originating at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store. It is the oldest of the major brand soft drinks in America. Like its flavor, the origin of Dr Pepper is out-of-the-ordinary. Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist working at Morrison's store, is believed to be the inventor of the now famous drink. Alderton spent most of his time mixing up medicine for the people of Waco, but in his spare time he liked to serve carbonated drinks at the soda fountain. He liked the way the drug store smelled, with all of the fruit syrup flavor smells mixing together in the air. He decided to to create a drink that tasted like that smell. He kept a journal, and after numerous experiments he finally hit upon a mixture of fruit syrups that he liked.
and further:
The formula for Dr Pepper is proprietary, but prune juice is definitely not one of the ingredients. It is a blend of many spices and flavor extracts. The color is supplied by caramel especially made for the product.
Cherry or Grenadine is undoubtedly ONE of the flavors in Dr. Pepper, but hardly the distinctive one.
Jason, Dr. Pepper tastes like Vanilla Coke. Without a doubt. Someone told me that, and it ruined Dr. Pepper for me.
First of--> to Jeff, why does Dr. Pepper have to be a male, why not female. You refered to the drink as a male. Sexiest son-of-a-beach.
Jason--> it taste like cherry's too bad so sad. also lighting and thunder are not always together. They can be seperate. (Great America).
if i were to attach any fruit to dr. pepper, it would be cherry. and i live in texas, so my opinion should have more merit.
dr. pepper does taste cherryish- and jason is the sexiest man alive-oh yeah, and i know someone in the northish west that you could stay with-without naming names, i'll just say san francisco-talk amongst yourselves
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