Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi. It's still shrouded in mystery

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I love Dr Pepper, it is definitely my favorite pop. To control the damage to my waistline, I drink the Zero Sugar variant. It is surprisingly close to the regular stuff. Like, close enough that I once inadvertently picked up a pack of regular Dr Pepper when I meant to get Zero, and I did not notice until I was a few bottles into it that I was drinking regular Dr Pepper.<p>I still love the real sugar kind best, like Dublin Dr Pepper. Just slightly more complex flavor, a bit fruitier. I&#x27;m still miffed that Snapple cracked down on them selling it direct to consumers.

If you, like me, are wondering &quot;has anyone just run it through a mass spectrometer to see what the ingredients are?&quot; the answer is yes, they have.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tIbDP0TF_70" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=tIbDP0TF_70</a>

The article says it&#x27;s owned by &quot;Keurig Dr Pepper&quot; and according to wikipedia, it&#x27;s manufacturer in some countries is Coca-Cola and in other countries is PepsiCo.

Glenn and friends cooking had a fun deep dive into creating Dr Pepper, multiple videos, part 1 here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sG499GYHdgk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=sG499GYHdgk</a>

Dr. Pepper forever! Several years ago I started drinking Dr. Pepper with Cream Soda[0]; it&#x27;s really good! The strawberry version is also pretty good IMO.<p>Pepsi has this weird taste to me, so I&#x27;m not shocked if it&#x27;s falling out of favor somewhat. Of course, that&#x27;s all subjective, and I&#x27;m sure some people can&#x27;t stand Dr. Pepper but love Pepsi.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drpepper.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;products&#x2F;dr-pepper-cream-soda-MCXKY2L2JY6FFT5A7YNV7MELBFXY" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.drpepper.com&#x2F;s&#x2F;products&#x2F;dr-pepper-cream-soda-MCX...</a>

Aside, but if you&#x27;re drinking Diet Dr Pepper: give the Walmart clone a shot (&quot;Diet Dr Thunder&quot;). It has stronger caramel notes and may be a better drink overall.<p>Big claim for an &quot;own brand&quot; clone but in this rare case it may exceed the drink it is copying for less money. For context, I don&#x27;t consider Pibb Xtra to be better than full sugar Dr Pepper.

its pretty crazy because when dr pepper says 23 flavors those are only the 23 we have discovered so far. i&#x27;ve been hearing of research that at least 3 new flavors have been found in the last couple years but the papers are still in peer review.

I don’t drink soda anymore, but when I did, it was mostly Coca-Cola. After moving to the US, I decided to try Dr. Pepper. Couldn’t get past the first sip, because this thing tastes like cough medicine (the bad kind). I know taste is very subjective and individual, but it puzzles me how people can drink—and like—this thing.

Dr Pepper is the only one that has great diet&#x2F;zero-sugar variants that appeal to (a good number of) the people that like the original sugar-full drink. While there are people who swear by Diet Coke and Pepsi offerings, not even they will say that they are a close match to the real thing (although there are of course oblivious exceptions).

Not surprised it&#x27;s doing well. I and multiple other people I know had our sense of taste damaged by Covid such that Dr. Pepper was the only soda that retained something like its former taste, others such as Coke gaining a bitter, harshly chemical edge.

Sell outs. Even quashed the last real Dr. Pepper: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dublin_Dr_Pepper" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Dublin_Dr_Pepper</a>

My big drink &quot;idea&quot;.<p>Take your preferred drinking vessel.<p>Fill it 2&#x2F;3rds full with orange juice. Adjust initial amount to taste.<p>Open a can of LaCroix. Plain, grapefruit, or tangerine. The flavour is mild.<p>Fill up the rest of the drinking vessel with LaCroix.<p>Enjoy your drink. Add more LaCroix as you drink, watering down the orange juice. Perfect for when I get home after walking my dog for an hour in summer. It doesn&#x27;t feel as cloying as soda, I can&#x27;t stand Coke anymore and Dr Pepper is heading the same way.

There are 23 flavors THAT WE KNOW OF

I like trying and hearing about some of the smaller or older producers. Some have interesting products or interesting stories. Squirt (also Dr Pepper brand), Moxie, Frozen Run Birch Beer, etc.

&gt; Dr Pepper is now as popular as Pepsi [on US][1]<p>[1] &gt; had joined Pepsi to become <i>the nation’s</i> second-best-selling soda.<p>Also, to me Popular != Best selling.

Love my Dr Pepper but thinking how ubiquitous Pepsi Max is, I don&#x27;t think that market share is remotely the same in other markets

I am amazed that despite the confluence of mainstream public health and influencers on the evils of excess sugar consumption that people still drink so much soda.

I mean... how do you describe what Coke tastes like? Most soda is kind of mysterious.

I miss Dublin Dr. Pepper made with real sugar. Sometimes Dr. Pepper will bring back the original but not often.

[It begins:<p>“Prune juice.” “Barbecued water.” “Elixir of the gods.” Those are just some of the phrases used to describe Dr Pepper, the un-pin-downable soda brand whose secret recipe is said to include 23 flavors. This week, we learned that the purplish-red canned beverage (see, even its label contains an enigma!) had joined Pepsi to become the nation’s second-best-selling soda, behind category-dominating Coke, according to trade publication Beverage Digest. (Dr Pepper is technically a smidgen ahead, but it’s essentially a tie.)]