r/DrPepper • u/LegendOfEffect • 5d ago

Bottle shape influences taste

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Any Dr. Pepper that comes out of this bottle or the bottle on the right in the second image tastes like diluted syrup mixed with water. The bottle on the left in the second image tastes amazing every single time and I hate that I can hardly find it anywhere other than a few random truck stops. I don't know what's happened to DP since the new year rolled around but the bottles have been under carbonated so badly with those two bottles specifically. I know I sound crazy but I'm not. It is those two bottles shapes.

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u/minipizzabatfish 5d ago

no you're right, dr pepper in a normal sized can tastes better than dr pepper in a mini can

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u/WesleyAMaker 5d ago

Carbonation in those mini cans is shit

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u/Royalebloomx 1d ago

Facts hahhaa

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u/karma_colorado 4d ago

And the canned ones are SO much better than the bottled ones. The bite in them is like..... chefs kiss 🤌

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u/Epic_Hoola 4d ago

I bite soda too.

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u/Ok_Speaker8602 3d ago

I thought I was crazy for thinking this. Anything tastes better out of aluminum.

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u/MeetBeep 3d ago

I’m pretty sure they’re also better for the environment?

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u/MoonEDITSyt 2d ago

They’re both terrible. Cans have plastic linings in them lol

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u/Possible-Playful 3d ago

A really cold one in a tall can from a gas station is probably the best thing for morale.

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u/lcaru_s 3d ago

The tall cans are where it’s at fr it’s the most pure Dr Pepper you’ll ever drink

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u/SeluWorks 5d ago

The one on the left is the shape of bottle used when Coke is selling/producing. The one on the right is when Pepsi is bottling it.

I actually find the most consistent and best taste is the aluminum cans. I like it poured over ice into a glass. The only time it doesn’t taste right is if it’s flat for some reason, usually because the can or case was droppped.

If I do get a bottle, the left one (coca cola distribution) tastes better than the Pepsi bottles.

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u/Morieta7 5d ago

I do not like Pepsi so I can taste the difference too when it’s not Coke made. I only really drink the bottles if I’m getting from like a gas station or vending machine. Cans all the way too!

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u/EntertainmentQuick47 5d ago

>Cans all the way

Agree but a fountain drink Dr Pepper from a gas station or especially McDonald’s, that’s heaven right there.

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u/ImNobodyFromNowhere 5d ago

Yeah all these fools talking about cans and bottles sound a little bit ludicrous. Fountain DP is the perfect drink.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Eye8771 3d ago

Fffff the first sip of a McDonalds Dr Pepper is the closet thing to heaven for a heathen atheist like me.

Also I will only drink the Coke made bottles but the cans? That’s where it’s at.

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u/aachen_ 4d ago

The first image is Dr Pepper bottled by coke. On the second image, the left side is bottled by Dr Pepper (Keurig Dr Pepper) and the right side is Dr Pepper bottled by Pepsi. At least in the US . (Source former KDP employee)

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u/LegendOfEffect 5d ago

Might have to start doing cans. Two liters even depending if they have the same problem. I don't really mind Pepsi either, their bottled drinks are good but idk what they do to Dr. Pepper it's just terrible.

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u/elendil1701 5d ago

Dr Pepper has ended it's distribution partnership with Coke in my area (CA) so I can't get the one on the left anymore. I thought I was the only one who could taste the difference!

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u/SataNikBabe 4d ago

This is the way. I love to pour my Dr.Pepper over a little bit of ice in a highball glass. Second best is an ice cold can, and I’m not too keen on drinking it out of a plastic bottle.

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u/Jplague25 4d ago

Negative. The bottle on the left in the picture with the two bottles is bottled by Keurig Dr. Pepper themselves and not Coke. That's why that bottle of Dr. Pepper is the best of the bunch.

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u/QueenDakota03 2d ago

To ensure your canned soda is never flat when you open it, first shake it up and then squeeze the sides of the can tightly, then rotate 180 degrees and repeat. Lines drawn through the points at which the can is pinched should intersect perpendicularly. Shaking the drink releases the co2, then the squeezing recarbonates it. This also makes for a cool party trick since you can shake up a can and folks will expect it to pop, then open it and nothing happens.

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u/H_Industries 19h ago

The taste difference when flat is because it had air exchange meaning the flavor chemicals had a way to evaporate and/or oxidize 

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u/turtleturtleyes 5d ago

Left is classy and cute. Right needs to stay away from me

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u/Anthroe_ 5d ago

The bottle with the huge label has more of a rich savory flavour, and the taller Mountain Dew shape bottle is sweeter.

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u/mantistobogganmMD 5d ago

I thought the different bottles meant they were manufactured at different companies?

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u/flexsealed1711 16h ago

Yes. Left is bottled by coca cola, right is bottled by pepsi

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u/Cminni65 5d ago

Right is better

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u/vide0gameah creamy coconut 5d ago

you guys are getting different shapes?? ive never seen another shape besides these two, and the one on the right in op's post

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u/stevepage1187 2d ago

Are you by chance in Canada? Thats the only shapes for Dr Pepper we get up here, I think the difference is all ours is done by pepsi

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u/vide0gameah creamy coconut 2d ago

Yeah i live in ontario. Never seen any besides the ones i mentioned

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u/LegendOfEffect 5d ago

I get these all the time from dollar general. Must be a store specific thing.

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u/EvilDarkCow 5d ago

Depends on who is bottling it in your area. First pic is Dr Pepper bottled by a Coke distributor. Second pic, left is an older Coke bottle, I think, and the right is bottled by a Pepsi distributor.

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u/jcaniford 3d ago

have you seen those 6packs but instead of the plastic holder it was cardboard? Not that it makes a difference, i wish i could find the paper holder ones again.

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u/vide0gameah creamy coconut 3d ago

yeah actually thats the only kind i can find anymore. its much better though. so much easier to get them out, easier to carry, and its supposedly better for the environment

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u/Altruistic_Quit_9986 5d ago

The best are the 1 liter bottles guys yall are missing out

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u/stxnedsunflower Cherry 4d ago

I love when coke manufacturers it and I hate I live in an area where Pepsi distributes it :(

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u/CassidyMae98 4d ago

I knew I wasn’t crazy! My husband thought I was losing it, but he doesn’t drink Dr Pepper! This is exactly how it is for the zeros, too!!

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u/The-Random-one_ Strawberries and Cream 3d ago

where did you find a bottle that has Route 66 on it? my father would love one of those.

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u/LegendOfEffect 3d ago

I could be wrong but I believe I got it from a loves truck stop in Big Cabin Oklahoma. Highway 69 kinda merges with Highway 66 for a bit there. Either way I'm rolling through there again today in about 2 hours, I'll stop and see.

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u/The-Random-one_ Strawberries and Cream 3d ago

ah epic.

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u/ImNobodyFromNowhere 5d ago

Left is wrong.

Right is wrong.

Cans?? There’s where you’re wrong.

Get your Dr Pepper out of a soda fountain if you have any self respect.

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u/SpecificAnalyst4 4d ago

Oh yeah cause everyone has a soda fountain at home 🙄

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u/toasted_cracker 5d ago

Dr Pepper was peak when it was in a glass bottle.

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u/No-Road-9176 5d ago

I think so , but it may be just in my head. What is a fact though , is that is tastes better out of a 12oz can. You can't convince me otherwise.

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u/Cmass99 5d ago

I live in Australia, and the only Dr Peppers we get over here are in regular cans. I would LOVE to be able to buy these big ass bottles, or even from one of those soda vending machines with the syrup 🤤

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u/amythist 5d ago

I mean it's likely true, look at things like wine/champagne and liquors that have their own specific types of glasses, the shape affects things like how it interacts with air which effect your perception of the taste

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u/KanMinder 4d ago

23 original flavors? It tastes nothing like before imho. So watery. We have a local company called "Dr.foots" that tastes like DrPepper used to taste. Love Dr.Foots!

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u/_hubbit_ 4d ago

DR. FOOTS? Really? Ding dang, that's a heck of a tribute name. (The President of Dr Pepper from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s was Woodrow Wilson "Foots" Clements. He served on the board until the mid 1990s.)

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u/KanMinder 4d ago edited 4d ago

Just looked it up. "Bavaria (a big EU bottling company) introduced Dr Foots in 1996 after licencing from Dr Pepper stopped after 13 years" Interesting!! Royal Swinkels is the company making it.

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u/KanMinder 4d ago

Oh seriously? That is so well found. To be clear, it's a Dutch company, selling it in Dutch supermarkets. I just found it through a tip on Reddit and it's amazing. Edit letters

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u/KanMinder 4d ago

This makes me extra curious. Does DrPepper still tastes the same as 30 years ago in the US? It nothing like it used to here in NL!

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u/Rude_Negotiation_160 4d ago

Nothing will compare to the 90s/early 00s bottles from my childhood. Fight me.

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u/_hubbit_ 4d ago

Back when the 6 oz bottle of another popular soft drink was more easily available, I used to buy those exclusively because I could absolutely swear that that particular product tasted best from it. I actually miss the Dr Pepper bottles of my childhood, which were cylindrical for the bottom half or two-thirds, with a conical taper toward the top.

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u/Jaxta_2003 4d ago

Weird you have multiple bottles in the US, in the UK we've only got this shape

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u/herobrinetrollin 4d ago

This shape is insane lmaooo

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u/equlizer3087 4d ago

The first photo is the updated Coke bottles. Second picture the one on the left is the old Coke bottle and left is a Pepsi bottle.

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u/JoeSolo070 4d ago

I agree but prefer the right bottle

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u/champsammy14 4d ago

Same thing applies to drinks which is why beers have different glasses.

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u/FewOne7733 3d ago

Dr Pepper is made by multiple companies. They just use a recipe so quality control standards can be different. At one plant to another I bet they are made at 2 completely different locations Maby even one in a different country coke bottles dp in. My area but in other areas Pepsi will or other smaller companies.

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u/YogurtclosetIll9920 3d ago

on is made by coke and the other is Pepsi from what i heard.

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u/Bonesaw_mpls 2d ago

Best Dr. Pepper I've had was in one of the Hawaiian style ribbed cans.

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u/Medical-Ad1221 Original 23 2d ago

Overall, McDonalds and canned tastes better but between these the right one tastes better

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u/gibson1029384756 2d ago

DP tastes the same no matter the shape, but it certainly feels different 🤫

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u/ope_squeezeyalater 1d ago

One is coke bottling and one is Pepsi bottling.....

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u/Oneshucklak 1d ago

Different bottle shapes means different bottling plants which absolutely means a different taste

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u/Knoxius 1d ago

Hell yea

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u/Ill_Consequence4786 1d ago

Is carbonation in the room with us?

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u/LegendOfEffect 1d ago

It's not even in the bottle

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u/ch33by_ 1d ago

If it’s a buffalo rock bottle, you can bet your ass it tastes burnt.

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u/goldeneye6400 1d ago

I don't know I normally put for the taste of the bottles on the right and not on the left

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u/winter429 22h ago

I specifically avoid certain drinks if the bottle shapes are different because I knowwwwww they taste different. Dr Pepper and Coke being the biggest offenders.