Guest T-Bone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 DR. TASTE Manufacturer: Marquee Premium Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Like Dr Pepper, but with more of the artificial fruit flavor and without as much of the sour yogurt taste. I actually like this a little better than real Dr Pepper. Rating: 1.1 DR PEPPER Manufacturer: Dr Pepper (NOT Coca-Cola or Pepsi, although your local Pepsi or Coke plant may bottle it) Color: Brown, like colas. Flavor: A sort of sour cherry-vanilla taste; loads of vanillin (the stuff they put in cheap chocolate and marshmallows) and lactic acid (the stuff that makes milk into yogurt.) Normal people don't like it, but it's an acquired taste, and I've acquired it. Has a strong aroma and is generally considered sweeter than Coke, probably comparable to Pepsi or Coke II (Max Headroom's favorite.) Rating: 1.0 DR. ROCKET Manufacturer: American Fare (aka K-Mart) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Amazingly similar to real Dr Pepper, despite the shoddy differences of the other imitations--this one's right on the money. I docked it a tenth of a point just because you have to go to K-Mart to buy it. Rating: 0.9 DR. SMOOTH Manufacturer: President's Choice (the house brand of supermarkets who don't want to bother having their own; locally seen at Star Market and Stop & Shop, which is not to be confused with Shop & Save or Stop & Go. "P.C." foods are made even more politically correct by being labelled in both English and Quebecois. "P.C." is a trademark of Sunfresh Inc.) Color: Purplish brown. Flavor: Warm, it tasted poor (more so than Dr Pepper does) with an unidentifiable yet disturbing flavor. Chilled, it was _very_ similar to Dr Pepper--considerably more so than most of the other fakes. Comments: This is the only one of the clones whose bottle doesn't look right--it's black with red and yellow lettering. They didn't get the color of the soda or the bottle right, but the contents are fine if chilled. Rating: 0.9 cold, 0.4 warm DR. A+ Manufacturer: Albertson's (West coast supermarket chain) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Like Dr Pepper but sweeter, or like Mr. Pibb with more flavor. Bonus points for real sugar, but they get taken away again for the faintly bitter aftertaste that's just now surfacing. Rating: 0.8 MR. PIBB Manufacturer: Coca-Cola Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Very fizzy but almost no flavor. Imagine a Dr Pepper with more sugar and gas and less of the other stuff. Reminded me of the clear stuff you sometimes get at McDonalds when the soda dispenser is sick. Comments: Very boring but non-threatening. Even more a phenomenon of the South than Dr Pepper; extremely rare north of Mason-Dixon. The most commercially successful of the fake Dr Peppers, even though it's the only one which flunked out of grad school. Rating: 0.6 DR LARIAT Manufacturer: Wolmex Beverage Company (Las Cruces, New Mexico) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Like Mr. Pibb with a shot of grenadine for extra flavor, but corn syrup (only) instead of sugar. Comments: My 3-liter bottle's label says "MADE IN THE USA" to distance it from those cheap imported Dr Pepper knockoffs (Herr Doktor Pfeffer?) Rating: 0.59 DR. SKIPPER Manufacturer: "Select" (as in Safeway Select faux house brand) SELECT SKIPPER Manufacturer: "Select" (as in Safeway Select faux house brand) DR. SELECT Manufacturer: "Select" (as in Pavillions Select faux house brand) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Just like Mr. Pibb. The can of Select Skipper seemed to have a little more grenadine-like flavor than the can of Dr. Skipper or the 2-liter of Dr. Select. All had corn syrup. Comments: All three of these were bought at the same Von's supermarket in Las Vegas, despite being labelled "Safeway" or "Pavillions"! Rating: 0.56 DR. SHAW'S Manufacturer: Shaw's (East coast supermarket chain) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: "Fabulous Flavor!" says the can. "Cherry Flavored Cola with Natural & Artificial Flavors." It doesn't have any cola taste, although the aroma has a hint of nutmeggy spice like colas. Tasted mostly like cherry with a little vanillin. Not even close to Dr Pepper, but not bad as a sort of ersatz cherry-slash-cola-slash-other generic beverage. Rating: 0.54 DR. THUNDER Manufacturer: Wal-Mart SOUTHERN LIGHTNING Manufacturer: Wal-Mart Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Like dirty Dr Pepper; a bit bitter, not enough fruit taste or sweetness. This is what you'd expect a phony Dr Pepper to taste like. Middle of the road--noticeably worse than Dr Pepper but still identifiable as a knockoff. Comments: Again, two knockoffs of Dr Pepper in the same store! Rating: 0.51 DR. SLICE Manufacturer: Pepsi (part of their Slice line of artificial fruit beverages, this one's an artificial artificial flavor) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Flavor: Artificial cherry. Just like cough syrup, or worse, a barbershop lollipop. Comments: Drinkable, but bad. Rating: 0.5 DR STARR Manufacturer: American Premier (I didn't know we'd elected Kruschev. This brand shows up at Osco Drug.) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Taste: None. Like Mr. Pibb, without the sugar or most of the carbonation. Comments: I thought I'd had a stroke until I realized it was placebo flavored. Rating: 0.4 DR. RIGHT Manufacturer: Preferred Selection (like President's Choice and American Fare and American Premier, but different. Seen at a mom-n-pop in Roxbury, 69c for two liters.) Color: Same as Dr Pepper. Taste: Cherry Coke, only sweeter and weaker. Comments: Poorly-made cap (compared to other brands) was hard to remove, a blessing in disguise. Rating: 0.3 DR. ZEPPA Manufacturer: Store 24 (along with Lemon Zup and other products that may have been named by the late Bill Gaines) Color: Purplish-grayish-brown. The couldn't even get THAT right? Flavor: Really really really weak Moxie. Dilute yet still repulsive. Comments: Worst of the bunch. Not as bad as Store 24's Blue Raspberry, which tastes like watermelon Bubble Yum and can be smelled from thirty feet away, but still nearly as bad as getting fermented shrimp paste up your nose in zero gravity while using Windows 3.1. Rating: 0.1 DR. JOE'S ALL NATURAL SPICY SODA Manufacturer: Trader Joe's (they also sell a chunky aloe drink, and a "fruit and vegetable drink" which is mostly orange juice with stuff like spinach added for flavor) Color: Brown. Flavor: VILE! EVIL! VILE! EVIL!!!! Imagine Lavoris mixed with dirt. One sip, and your tongue feels fuzzy for hours; the awful aftertaste just wouldn't go away. Other things to think of as you drink it: tincture of iodine, ice that's been in the freezer for decades, camphor, carbonated vomit. Comments: Carbonation is weak, like Mr. Pibb. The only one of these sodas to be naturally flavored. Ingredients: carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors (cherry, citrus oils, spices). I couldn't taste the cherry or citrus; it was like drinking battery acid with a tenth of a Pez dissolved in it. As I write this, I am suffering from stomach cramps. Rating: 0.0 (I thought Dr. Zeppa was bad. I have confidence I will not have to use any negative numbers in rating future contenders. This is the worst thing I've ever tasted, including rancid Crunchy Waterchestnut Drink from Chinatown.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud2BCatholic139 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 They also have like Mr. Pibb and Dr. Whatever...you know the shasta stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 [size=1]Wow, there are alot of Doctors. [/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud2BCatholic139 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 THere are a lot of imitator out there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonebone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Pepsi and Coce are the same thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 [quote name='fonebone' post='1084025' date='Oct 4 2006, 01:51 PM'] Pepsi and Coce are the same thing. [/quote] No, they're not. Pepsi is sweater, and Coke has a "spicier" flavor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 [size=1]So is MD and Mellow Yellow [/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonebone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidemunch88 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 ewww mellow yellow is like horse piss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonebone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Can we steer the thread back to Dr Pepper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fonebone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 (edited) Yeah! [size=2][size=1]AND[/size] STOP[/size] [size=3]SWEARING!!!!![/size] Edited October 4, 2006 by fonebone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardillacid Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 [quote name='T-Bone' post='1084050' date='Oct 4 2006, 04:01 PM'] Can we steer the thread back to Dr Pepper? [/quote] No. I cannot ever respect you again for changin your avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest T-Bone Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardillacid Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 [quote name='T-Bone' post='1084100' date='Oct 4 2006, 04:33 PM'] : [/quote] You sold-out man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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