The Soda Thread: Coke not Classic; Throwback Pepsi

[Benny Holiday]

I bought this @ Ace hardware store & keep it stocked with 6 oz. glass coke bottles.

This is too cool! (No pun intended).

 

[HudsonHawk]

I looked in Caldwell (where my inlaws live) and only saw Dr Pepper with HFCS.
In fact, they had a 6 pack in glass bottles, but I checked the label...HFCS.

I had to go into town today (Mexia), so I picked up these at the Walmart. This is what you want to look for. Both the bottles and the cans will have the Imperial Sugar logo. Like I said, let me know when you're back in Texas, and I'll make sure you load up on few sixers (or anyone else who comes this way, for that matter):

 

[2jakes]

This is too cool! (No pun intended).

Thanks...

If you're a coke-a-holic like me...you know that a couple of swallows of the 6 oz size & it's gone.

I asked my dad about this.

He said...."back then they only cost 10¢".:eusa_doh:

 

[Gregg Axley]

I had to go into town today (Mexia), so I picked up these at the Walmart. This is what you want to look for. Both the bottles and the cans will have the Imperial Sugar logo. Like I said, let me know when you're back in Texas, and I'll make sure you load up on few sixers (or anyone else who comes this way, for that matter):

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Cool.
I think we are a bit further out than Mexia. But you have another place closer to College Station/Bryan don't you?
My next trip might not be until November, but I'll let you know way ahead of time.
Thanks!

 

[HudsonHawk]

Cool.
I think we are a bit further out than Mexia. But you have another place closer to College Station/Bryan don't you?
My next trip might not be until November, but I'll let you know way ahead of time.
Thanks!

My "other" place is the one near Mexia (about 10 miles actually). Everyday living is in Houston.

 

[pompier]

Hmmm.....is that Dublin Dr. Pepper?

I had to go into town today (Mexia), so I picked up these at the Walmart. This is what you want to look for. Both the bottles and the cans will have the Imperial Sugar logo. Like I said, let me know when you're back in Texas, and I'll make sure you load up on few sixers (or anyone else who comes this way, for that matter):

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[HudsonHawk]

Hmmm.....is that Dublin Dr. Pepper?

Nope. Dublin Dr. Pepper doesn't exist anymore.

 

[Absinthe_1900]

At least the Dublin Bottling Works is still busy with other flavors of their own, we have them at my local Kroger's in The Heights.

http://www.dublinbottlingworks.com/

 

[2jakes]

Nope. Dublin Dr. Pepper doesn't exist anymore.

Not sure how current this is or if it's an old press release.

"Under the terms of an agreement, DPS (Dr.Pepper Snapple) has purchased Dublin Bottler's.
...Dps will now distribute Dr. Pepper sweetened with cane sugar throughout Dublin's former territory & continue to sell
it in other areas of Texas, including Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston & Waco. It's the same product Dublin sold. The only
difference is it will not reference Dublin on the label."

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...qRsXp7t_KYOslnu8w&sig2=0OyAigqRKutb6ido8wHvnQ

 

[HudsonHawk]

Not sure how current this is or if it's an old press release.

"Under the terms of an agreement, DPS (Dr.Pepper Snapple) has purchased Dublin Bottler's.
...Dps will now distribute Dr. Pepper sweetened with cane sugar throughout Dublin's former territory & continue to sell
it in other areas of Texas, including Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston & Waco. It's the same product Dublin sold. The only
difference is it will not reference Dublin on the label."

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...qRsXp7t_KYOslnu8w&sig2=0OyAigqRKutb6ido8wHvnQ

I think that about sums it up. Dublin Bottling got smacked down hard, but not as hard as they could have been. I hear their new sodas are quite good.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Thanks...

If you're a coke-a-holic like me...you know that a couple of swallows of the 6 oz size & it's gone.

I asked my dad about this.

He said...."back then they only cost 10¢".:eusa_doh:

7 cents. There were still a few of the old round shouldered Coke machines with the little door on the front and a round drum inside.

Originally (in the forties?) they were 5 cents. By the time I got to them, they had been adjusted so every once in a while you put your nickel in but got nothing until you put in a second nickel.

There were 2 or 3 of these old timers in town until the late sixties, one in an old fashioned hardware store, the others in gas stations.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Nickel Cokes were common when I was a child during the mid '50s.
HD

 

[LizzieMaine]

We had one of those machines until about 1972, and it sat in the back of the grease room for quite a while after that until one day I noticed it was gone, and nobody would tell me where it ended up. They all knew I wanted it myself, and I suspect someone came along and offered some fast cash to my uncle and he sold it to them without thinking. It was a "Vendo," if I recall correctly. The reason it was retired was that the coin mechanism wouldn't go above ten cents, and 1972 was when the price went up to 15 cents.

Coke stayed at a nickel far longer than it should have -- Coke president Robert Woodruff believed the five-cent price was part of Coca-Cola's brand identity, and it wasn't until the bottlers began to rebel that he reluctantly allowed an increase in 1954, around the same time he finally gave in to pressure to allow larger bottles -- the "king size" 12 ounce and the "family size" 28 ounce bottles came on the market not long after. When they introduced the 48 ounce bottle in the early 70s, everybody thought it was ridiculous because nobody could drink that much soda before it went flat.

 

[2jakes]

Vendorlator also made the soda machines for Pepsi, Royal Crown, & Dr. Pepper.

 

[2jakes]

I looked in Caldwell (where my inlaws live) and only saw Dr Pepper with HFCS.
In fact, they had a 6 pack in glass bottles, but I checked the label...HFCS.
I'll go back in November, and look then.
This time I'll check the Kroger in Bryan.
They have Tofurkey, why wouldn't they have Dr. Pepper with sugar?
Plus they have a better beer selection than Brookshire Brothers in Caldwell.

I bought a couple of 6-paks @ H.E.B. grocery store in San Antonio today.

(sugar cane Dr. Pepper bottled in Plano, Texas)

I usually don't see them on the shelves...must be just for the holidays. :eusa_clap

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I'm down to just one, hopefully they will come back on the market !

But I'm thinking this won't be happening soon...shakesheadshakeshead

 

[LizzieMaine]

You can return them here. We've had a bottle deposit law since 1976, although they stopped using refillable bottles in the late '80s. All the glass bottles today -- even Mexican/Throwback stuff -- are non-refillable, even where there's a deposit law. When I'm dictator that will change.

 

[2jakes]

When I'm dictator that will change.

Ok people...you heard the lady !

Vamos ! Vamos Vamos !
.....:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

 

[LuvMyMan]

LOL! I love the small real glass bottle soda pops...they do have them in one store around here and mostly Coke but everyone once in a while they have something other than coke. I really do think it taste better in glass for some reason.

 

[2jakes]

LOL! I love the small real glass bottle soda pops...they do have them in one store around here and mostly Coke but everyone once in a while they have something other than coke. I really do think it taste better in glass for some reason.

My guess is that glass bottles hold the carbonation better then aluminum cans. Probably because unlike glass bottles,
the cans tend to expand with the temperature causing for the metal to give the soda a not so favorable taste.
( just my 2¢)

 

[LuvMyMan]

Yes I think you are right...also for some reason the glass bottled pop seems a bit more creamy and sweet!
Plastic bottled you can taste and the cans also...sort of nasty compared to the glass.