I just tried the Dr. Pepper (regular) in the new style can. It has a
weird aftertaste to me, maybe best described as "cherry-ish". Mine
said the sweetener was High Fructose Corn Syrup. I'm going to have to
stock up on the old stuff if they messed around with the flavor. Maybe
they plan on bringing out "Dr. Pepper Classic" like Coke did a few
years back.
Be sure to go to their site and click on the 'product quality' form
under 'contact us' if you don't like the change.
I'd like to see an actual Diet Dr Pepper (maybe with splenda) that
actually tastes like Dr. Pepper instead of "more like Dr. Pepper" too.
--Barry
dre1@cornell.edu wrote:
> I saw a new logo today on a 20 oz Dr Pepper bottle. If you haven't
> seen it yet, it has
>
> Dr
> Pepper
> Est. 1885
>
> in an oval, with a smaller oval underneath containing
> 23 surrounded by "AUTHENTIC BLEND OF 23 FLAVORS".
>
> The animation at <http://www.dpsu.com/> has the new design now.
>
> Along with the new logo, the sweetener seems to have changed, at
> least in my area, from "HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AND/OR
> SUGAR" (seen on a bottle with the old logo) to just "HIGH FRUCTOSE
> CORN SYRUP". I'm not sure how much difference this makes in taste,
> but the bottle I tried is like a shadow of the flavor that comes out of
> a
> pure sucrose mix like the Dublin TX variety (available from
> <http://www.dublindrpepper.com/>). (IMHO, of course. YMMV).
>
> -Doug Elrod (dre1@cornell.edu)
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