I mean, it was made by two guys, one of whom may have named it after Dr. Charles T. Pepper. The guy was a real person.
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You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.
Dr. Pepper is an inanimate soft drink, there is no gender, but the one you assign to it.
Look at you! You got the joke!
I always thought of it as a vegetable.
I thought it was a spice.
Dr Pepper , what ever their gender, is a quack.
Not sure that he was. He wasn't involved in making the drink, and no one is certain why one of the creatirs seems to have had the drink named after him, but Dr. Charles T. Pepper was a real person and an actual medical doctor.
...or that Dr. Pepper's degree might be in herpetology or Renaissance literature.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper
His degree was in medicine, no one can prove why the drink may have been named for him, as he wasn't involved in the creation of it
The idea of a female herpetologist releasing a soft drink is amazing
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Mr. Pibbs' wife.
I never imagined they were married, just that Dr. Pepper was his superior.
She’s the bread winner; he sits at home, plays Xbox, and smokes weed all day
I think this is my new head cannon, the distracted Mr. Pibb and his focused wife, Dr. Pepper.
That's why they changed over to Pibb Xtra.
Mr. Pibb was going through his midlife crisis, and in a fit, returned to his teenager state of mind. Dr. Pepper keeps hoping he'll break out of it, return to his old self, but she's so wrapped up in her career she can't take the time to be there, and doesn't see the one who's really fueling it.
That filthy whore R.C Cherry.
I never considered Dr Pepper as a person because they made a big deal about how it doesn't have a period in the name, like an actual doctor title would. So it's always just been a brand name to me.
But I'm a bit neurotic about nitpicky details like that.
Dur pepper to me.
It was made for me! This is my soda!
Dr Pepper was designed to taste like what a soda fountain smells like, a mix of flavors like when you made "swamp water" as a kid.
So it's "Dur Pepper's Monster" to me.
To Europeans it tastes like mouthwash
It's not selling very well I don't think
I thought that was Root Beer?
Europeans drink mouthwash?!!
TIL…
My mom told me Dr. Pepper was made from prune juice, which I guess is party true about the original formula.
I haven't looked in a while but in 2020, prune juice was still in the mandatory ingredients list. It's mainly corn syrup and water, but prune juice is involved, I think
Democratic Republic (of) Pepper.
Funnily enough I picked Dr. Pepper as a guy because I think "Doctor hocking Miracle Tonic" and I think of late 1800s "doctor" do sleazy shit
He just gotta have a curly moustache
He had more of a Ulysses S. Grant looking beard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper
He wasn't actually involved with the drink.
I have an excuse though. Doctor is closer to doutor (male doctor) than doutora (female doctor)
I'm gonna steal this excuse and apply it to German (Doktor/Doktorin)
I mean, they did have an entire ad campaign that was just misogyny a while back. Although then again maybe she was working through some shit.
I don't keep up with ad campaigns, what?
Of course they're a guy. Otherwise it'd be Drs. Pepper. ~/s~
Docsses Pepper?
Doctoress. Didn't realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it's awesome.
It does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
maybe if it was named dr.papper?
Yeah, she's probably so done with people going "Doctor Pepper? Don't you mean nurse?".
For some reason I imagine dr pepper looking like a slightly bigger louis armstrong wearing a red t shirt standing by a kroger and I do not have the faintest idea why
Only ever herd about pepper as a female name, but looking it up it seems unisex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(name)