Yeah, those paper straws were around until at least the late seventies, maybe the early eighties.

Why not continue to make it under a new, nudge-nudge wink-wink name, such as “Dublin Classic”, or something like that?  In fact, being tied to the corporate name brand “Doctor Pepper” may have been a hindrance for decades.

Emancipate!

Right on.
After an allergy induced episode of high blood pressure, I implemented a daily quota of fifteen almonds, ten pistachios and some strips of dried mango into my diet.
The level of potassium on nuts is off the charts.

Then there’s olive oil, garlic and habanero, my holy trinity.

Also Wegmans grocery stores in NY and surrounding states have it, though it’s more expensive (and we’re about as far from the border, culturally anyway, as possible though of course we are right next to the other border).

Of course my favorite time to buy Mexican coke is from the poorer quarters where ragged people go, or with pizza slices in the village in NYC, etc. Times when you’re on foot wandering through a city. Gives you the va-va-voom you need.

Also can I just say how much I hate it when I read a recipe for some fairly natural old-timey food, like fermented beet juice, and after the recipe they tell you it’s great for helping with liver ailments, kidney, stomache, brain, eye, ear, nerves, liverishness, women’s complaints, straightens armpit hair, don’t forget cancer. It’s like they’ve been cribbing off Tom Waits. http://youtu.be/y8YcEmKleJk

Just two years ago, Dr Pepper celebrated their 125th anniversary with cans using the original cane sugar recipe.  Who was the Dublin plant hurting?

Think I’ll write a letter to Wayne Sanders and Larry Young over at Dr Pepper Snapple and explain to ‘em I’m switching to Mr. Pibb.

Despite that, I read your link, and all the stuff it linked, and the response from the Florida Department of Citrus, and the comments on Civil Eats, and food renegade, etc.  And here’s what I got out of it.

At least two brands of packaged orange juice use a process where the juice is separated, the parts of it that can be boiled are boiled, and the parts of it that can’t be boiled without being destroyed are added back in after the boiling, so that the juice doesn’t rot or turn into poison in the bottle.  Hurray for Louis Pasteur.

Unsurprisingly, the parts of the orange that can’t be boiled but also do not support microbial life, are volatile flavor agents – a.k.a. chemicals.  You know, chemicals, the stuff oranges are made out of?  Yes, those exact chemicals.  I can’t muster any fear or horror… I myself am made of chemicals, and so is all my food.

Huffpo takes these facts, which apply to a specific brand of a specific type of juice, and attempts to create fear of “the juice industry”.  I think we can assume that the majority of Florida juice growers donate more to the Republican party than they do to the Democrats – because that’s how Huffpo articles always seem to break down, somehow.

Oho, looky there, a little googling and we see that the Florida Orange Juice Growers Association is rabidly right wing, and has used Anita Bryant as a spokesperson, and, well, I’m done with this now.

EDIT: You’re right, robcat, it is better to eat the fruit, and I can’t deny it. But reading Huffpo’s inflammatory and manipulative nonsense always sets me off. Sorry.

I have noticed that hunger works quite differently in different people.  I can see at least three distinct patterns.

I understand her point, now, though – thanks!

As recently as 1993, I’d occasionally buy a “Double Gulp.”  It’s a half gallon, and the top of the cup folds just like a milk carton since no round plastic lid could keep that drink from completely soaking your lap when you drove over a speed bump.

USA!  USA!  USA!

Some days, it’s worth it.