Dr Pepper
I’ve been drinking Dr Pepper for over thirty years, but the best one I ever tasted was three weeks ago in Waco, TX. My son and I visited the Dr Pepper museum there, and they had a real old-fashioned soda fountain. First, the girl put four big squirts of syrup in the cup, then a bunch of crushed ice, then filled the cup up with sparkling water, then pushed the magic handle backwards to shoot in some extra fizz, and polished it all off with a micro-squirt of more syrup. It was sweet, dark, sticky, and overly fizzy – delicious – a word not normally associated with pop. Because I’m older and fatter, I normally drink the diet stuff these days. That fountain drink was fabulous, though, and a simple pleasure. Life is good.