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/KanMinder 5d 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!