Southern soft drinks
With hotter weather soon upon us, a history of some of the regional soft
drinks we North Carolinians enjoy might make for a refreshing column.
I'm skipping pepsi cola Cola and Coca cola for now.
Chronologically, the first regional soft drink was "the friendly pepper-upper." Dr Pepper's birthplace was wako, Texas, and the year was 1885. Ever wonder about the "10-2-4" on the bottle? The story is that some nutrniotinst made a study and found out that many people hit slumps (sugar lows?) at around 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., and so a refreshing beverage such as Dr prepper, made with extracts of 20 different fruits and taken a half hour before the slump, would be just what the doctor ordered. Regardless, Dr pepper looks like a cola, but doesn't taste like the other colas. When I was growing up in the 1950s I heard that Dr pepper contained a trace of prune juice.
Chronologically, the first regional soft drink was "the friendly pepper-upper." Dr Pepper's birthplace was wako, Texas, and the year was 1885. Ever wonder about the "10-2-4" on the bottle? The story is that some nutrniotinst made a study and found out that many people hit slumps (sugar lows?) at around 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., and so a refreshing beverage such as Dr prepper, made with extracts of 20 different fruits and taken a half hour before the slump, would be just what the doctor ordered. Regardless, Dr pepper looks like a cola, but doesn't taste like the other colas. When I was growing up in the 1950s I heard that Dr pepper contained a trace of prune juice.
Southern soft drinks
Southern soft drinks
Southern soft drinks
Southern soft drinks
Southern soft drinks
Southern soft drinks
Southern soft drinks
Southern soft drinks
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