Come for the Dr Pepper Float, Stay for the Civil Rights History
Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum offers an insightful exhibit on the 1960s lunch counter protests that helped desegregate Texas.
“About every three days, on the average, every man, woman and child in the state drinks a Dr Pepper,” Leo Janos wrote in the first-ever Texas Monthly. The days of advertisements claiming sugar and caffeine “brightens the mind and clears the brain” may be behind us, but the soft drink once known as a “Waco,” pre-dated Coca-Cola by five months and is as Texas as they come. The occasion of its invention on December 1, 1885 was #145 on our “Great Terquasquicentennial Road Trip,” while “Sip a Dublin Dr Pepper” was #10 on our Texas “Bucket List.” As Peter Elkind mused in July of 1985, being a “Pepper,” is a lot like being Texan: free-thinking, stalwart, and fizzy—with qualities no outsider will ever know or understand.
Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum offers an insightful exhibit on the 1960s lunch counter protests that helped desegregate Texas.
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Mmmmm, tastes like red.
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A twelve-ounce oral history of the long-awaited documentary, "Bottled Up: The Battle Over Dublin Dr Pepper."
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David Thomas on making Dr Pepper.
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Dr Pepper finds itself.
“Once I get Dr Pepper down their throats, and tell them about it, I’m in business.”
After a disappointing settlement with Dr Pepper Snapple Group, the family that owns Dublin Bottling Works, Inc. continues to thrive using the same ingredient that fans have enjoyed for years—pure cane sugar.
Dublin Dr Pepper, Beverage Beloved By Many, Dies at 120
The historic bottler's settlement with Dr Pepper kills off a beloved Texas icon.
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Soft drinks in our public schools.
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A Dublin bottler is the only one in Texas who’s still sweet on traditional Dr. Pepper.