Soft Drinks

Dublin Bottling and Dr Pepper Doc Bottled Up Screening at USA Film Fest

Remember the kerfuffle with Dublin Dr Pepper and Dr Pepper Snapple? It's a long story that started back in the '70s when Dublin-based bottler W.P. Kolster refused to switch over to high-fructose corn syrup, a cheap product that replaced pure cane sugar extensively in the American food industry and i ... More >>

Doing Mountain Dew's New Morning Drink, KickStart -- Let the Kicking Start

Last week Mountain Dew announced a new breakfast drink, KickStart, and through a website offered free samples. Brown dropped mine off yesterday afternoon. Mountain Dew has been dabbling in the breakfast business recently. Recall last year, Taco Bell tested Mountain Dew A.M., which was a mix of or ... More >>

The Real Honest Coca-Cola Ad

Coca-Cola has a long history of capturing our imaginations through advertising. Polar bears and the northern lights. Olympic athletes. A rosy-cheeked Santa holding a glass of the elixir. However, recently Coca-Cola has stepped up to the scale and released their first anti-obesity ad. Coca-Cola s ... More >>

Dublin Bottling Works is Back Online for the Retro Soda Fan on Your Shopping List

If your mouth waters a little when you see one of those "I'm A Pepper" shirts, then you undoubtedly recall last summer when Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group decided to sue Dublin Bottling Works, the then-sole maker of the original-formula Imperial Cane Sugar Dr Pepper. Papa Bear said Baby Bear wa ... More >>

Apparently 17 Teaspoons of Sugar is What's for Breakfast at Taco Bell

Last week Taco Bell introduced two additions to its First Meal breakfast menu: the "A.M. Crunchwrap Supreme" and "Mountain Dew A.M." The wrap is a hash brown patty topped with eggs, a tangy cheese-like sauce and sausage or bacon, all wrapped and toasted in a huge tortilla. The new beverage is an in- ... More >>

Start is Open on Greenville (Photos)

Without the neutral colors, sleek design and healthy food, Start could be a Raising Cane's, or (gasp!) even an Arby's. Diners order and pay at a register, grab drinks, and sit to wait for their names to be called. The open kitchen delivers food in a fast food-style, with labeled stainless steel chut ... More >>

Rita's Italian Ice Ice Baby

Rita's Italian Ice, or Rita's Water Ice, or as the corporate website put its, Rita's Ice-Custard-Happiness, is a quickly growing frozen treats franchise out of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, (near Philly). In addition to their many names, they also have many many many combos. One can have a straight Rita ... More >>

Going Ape for Pookies Donuts

Pink gorilla robot cheesesteak plus fresh, super-sweet doughnuts Alice. We're just grateful no one was injured in the frenzy at Pookies Donuts (6522 Lemmon Ave.). Other people count: 13 People-watching amazingness level: 2,310 When you see the giant pink gorilla robot waving at you in front ... More >>

Dublin Bottling Works Is Taking Over Velvet Taco's Soda Fountain

Jeff Kloster has struck again. Back in January we told you about Dublin Bottling Work's move to bolster the Dublin soda industry. Maple and Motor still serves their sodas, and they're becoming more available by the day. Now Velvet Taco plans to add more of Kloster's offerings. They've been carrying ... More >>

Dallas Director Who Captured Demise of Dublin Dr Pepper Raising Funds to Finish Documentary

On the final day of 2011 -- "a slow Saturday" -- Don Merritt drove from Dallas southwest to Dublin. He used to make the 120-mile trek all the time and figured on this day he'd grab some footage in addition to some sugar-cane Dr Pepper. "We shot tours," he says now, "the soda shop." Merritt was think ... More >>

Another Texas Icon's Caught Between Dublin Bottling Works, Plano-Based Dr Pepper: Big Red

The set-up at Maple & Motor. For now.​Ever since Jack Perkins got his Dublin Bottling Works soda fountain at Maple & Motor, well, let's say I've had way too many cane-sugar soft drinks in recent weeks. (May I recommend mixing the Tart-N-Sweet Lemonade, Cherry Limeade and Dublin Lemon-Lime ... More >>

Dr Pepper Be Damned, Dublin Bottling Works is Striking Back Against Big Soda

Leslie Minora​Jeff Kloster, owner of Dublin Bottling Works, didn't sit on his ass and sulk after his company's settlement with Dr Pepper Snapple stripped him of his top-selling product, Dubin Dr Pepper. The day after the news hit, he says, he picked up the phone and did the same thing he's don ... More >>

Dublin Dr Pepper -- Yes, The Actual Stuff from Dublin -- Returns to Maple & Motor's Tap

As Scott mentioned earlier, Jack Perkins, founding partner of the Maple & Motor burger mecca -- and once a proud provider of Dublin Dr Pepper on tap -- is joining forces with Dublin Bottling Company to serve up the other sodas by the still-standing indie soda company. But that doesn't mean you'll ... More >>

Dublin Dr Pepper is Dead; Maple & Motor and Oak Cliff's Soda Gallery are among the Mourners

Jack Perkins, co-owner of Dallas burger institution Maple & Motor, appreciates that a swig of Dublin Dr Pepper is just the thing to wash down a delicious burger. Once every few weeks since he opened his Maple Avenue burger shack, someone from his restaurant has made the two-hour drive to Dublin, Tex ... More >>

Buy Up All the Dublin Dr Pepper You Can, Because As of Today It No Longer Exists

​If you have but a single can or bottle marked "Dublin Dr Pepper," don't open it. It's a collector's item as of this very moment. That's because as of 5 p.m. today there is no more Dublin Dr Pepper: From here on out, per a settlement agreement just announced in the case filed by Plano-based Dr Pep ... More >>

Five Nights of Drinking at Home: It's Not Alcoholism If There's Christmas Music On

Flickr​Don't ask me out for a drink because, 1.) I'm cheap and 2.) at the height of holiday shopping insanity, I like to leave my house less than Sigorney Weaver in Copycat. So I stay home, watch TV, read and drink. My drink of choice is usually peppermint Schnapps in hot chocolate. Yes, I kno ... More >>

Dublin Dr Pepper Launches Legal Defense Fund in Legal Spat With Plano-Based Parent

Photo by Brantley Hargrove​Brantley espied that giant check you see at right during his tour of the Dublin Dr Pepper bottling plant a few weeks ago; turns out, it was just seed money. We just received word that in order to keep pace with Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is suing the Dubl ... More >>

In God We Trust. Unless You're Dublin Dr Pepper, Says Corporate's Latest Filing.

​At the end of last week, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. filed its response to Dublin Dr Pepper's response to corporate's lawsuit filed in June, in which the mothership insists Dublin's violating a licensing agreement by selling The Imperial Pure Cane Sugar-y Good Stuff outside of a six-count ... More >>

Dublin Dr Pepper Responds to Corporate HQ's Lawsuit With Quite the Legal History Lesson

It probably doesn't help Dr Pepper's case that CEO Larry Young went on KERA's CEO in '09 with a Dublin sixer and touted it as "the original Dr Pepper formula with the Imperial sugar in it" with an "unbelievable" following.​Back in June, you no doubt recall, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. deci ... More >>

Dr Pepper Snapple Group Responds to Dublin Dr Pepper's Response to Corporate's Lawsuit

Via.​Back to the Dr Pepper-on-Dr Pepper lawsuit ...Early this morning we posted Dublin Dr Pepper's response to the lawsuit filed in June by Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which is trying to limit Dublin's real-deal Imperial Sugar-spiked soda pop to a six-county area and alleges the oldest Dr ... More >>

Plano-Based Dr Pepper Wants Dublin Dr Pepper to Stop Selling the Good Stuff Everywhere

Courtesy Flickr user Rich Anderson​Last night KXAS-Channel 5 had a most fascinating story: Dr Pepper v. Dr Pepper. Specifically, Plano-based Dr Pepper/Seven Up Inc. says the Dublin-based maker of The Real Thing (that is, a Pepper flavored with original-formula Imperial Pure Cane Sugar) is violatin ... More >>

Fergie and Dr Pepper Cherry: Full Brazilian Smooth?

Um...this.​We've seen this board on our way to work for a while now and every time we drive past we think, "So, The Ferg and Dr Pepper both shave their pubies?" "Dr Pepper Cherry and Fergie, now as amazingly smooth as a baby's bottom." We're not the only ones who read the board this way. One ... More >>

Dr Pepper Thefts Are Probably a Local Job, Says One Cargo Theft Expert

​If police have any new leads in that statewide run of Dr Pepper truck thefts, they're not saying much -- days of phone messages left with Fort Worth PD spokesmen and detectives have gone unanswered. (As if they've got more important things to do.)I was, however, able to reach Sherman Police spoke ... More >>

Truck Thefts from Texas Soda Distributors Make Dallas a Hub for Hot Dr Pepper

Thieves drove off with two fully loaded trucks from this Wichita Falls Dr Pepper bottling plant last month, before abandoning the empty trucks near Dallas -- the third such theft recently.​A trio of truck thefts from Dr Pepper distributors around Texas in the last few months have all ended the sam ... More >>

Ste Genevieve Red: Not Bad, If You're Broke

​Gallo. Robert and CK Mondavi. Beringer. Kendall-Jackson. Franzia. You know them as the 800 pound gorillas, the Two Buck Chucks, if you will, of the wining world. They take up voluminous amounts of space on the grocery store shelves with their bottles, magnums and boxes of mass-produced ... More >>

I'm a Geek Who Drinks...Root Beer?

​I've been totally jazzed about telling all you drinkers, girl and otherwise, about how bad ass Geeks Who Drink on Mondays at the Barley House is. It is just 2 weeks old, but it is outstanding. Geeks Who Drink, for those who don't know, is an organized pub quiz for teams of up to six, spanning pop ... More >>

Twisted Root Burger Co. Offers Humanitarian Program to Beat the Summer Heat: Free Popsicles

​Hard to remember the last time the temperature was less than 100 degrees. Aside from holing up in our air-conditioned house and jacking up our utility bill, we're starting to think there are no other means of keeping cool. But Twisted Root Burger Co. has given us another way of chilling out. Begi ... More >>

I'm Thirsty, Pass Me a Buffy The Vampire Slayer Blueberry

http://www.myjones.com/limited/buffy​An American Tradition: having a cane- sugar soda with a big damn sub sandwich. I mean, that sandwich better have a good ladle of oil & vinegar, some ribbons of lettuce, and two fistfuls of meat. And golly, there is NOTHING better to wash it down than a Jone ... More >>

The Soda Gallery: High-Fructose Corn Syrup Heaven

​ Try: Rat Bastard root beer Don't try: spending less than 10 bucks here I was on a mission to find Henry Weinhard's root beer. I know that some shmancy grocery stores in town sell six-packs, but they're always sold out by the time I get there (because Weinhard's is the shiiiiiiit), so I nee ... More >>

Timeless Greaseballs and Frosty Brews Down At the Dairy-Ette

Photos by Patrick Michels​Dairy-ette 9785 Ferguson Road (214) 327-9983 Dude Factor: 9 (or Bodacious), on a scale of 1 (Ferdinand the Bull) to 10 (Bevo).After a long weekend soaking up culture down in Ennis, and sun out at the FOE pool, yesterday's return to traffic, cubicle walls and that car alar ... More >>

Dear Snapple: An Open Letter Concerning the Abandonment of Soda

A Snapple soda bottle. The CLR is elusive.​Dear Snapple, You produce beverages -- allegedly with the best stuff on Earth -- with which many are satisfied. Some might say they even crave your drinks. Even 30 Rock has been generous with Snapple's product placement, with character Cerie going so far ... More >>

Download: Neon Indian -- "Sleep Paralysist"

Mountain Dew: Code Denton​As promised, DFW's own Neon Indian released a new single via Mountain Dew's new Green label Sound entity today, and the song's available as a free download through the label's site. The song, called "Sleep Paralysist," is pretty token Neon Indian, filled with blips, bleep ... More >>

Days Gone Bite: RC Cola And MoonPies

deepfriedkudzu​Few people write songs about pizza and beer, chocolate and peanut butter, or gin and juice. Foie gras and Sauternes? Forget it.Yet dozens--just a rough estimate--of hits and near hits have referenced the combination of tooth-decay inducing sugar water and tooth decay-inducing chocol ... More >>

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Kids Eat The Darnedest Things: SodaStream Homemade Soda

Mikal Beth HugheyCarbonating water with the SodaStream machine.  We hear lots of things in this office, such as last week's notice of a "New and Fun Drink Idea:" the SodaStream home soda maker. Well, while the idea of making soda at home was new to me, it's not exactly a new idea to the world, ... More >>

Food For Thought...

"A lot of people have left the category. Also a lot of young people have not entered the category, so these ads may help Coke both recruit new, young consumers and recruit some lapsed consumers." (Beverage Digest editor John Sicher, clearly excited over the soft drink company's new marketing campai ... More >>

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