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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

...or that Dr. Pepper's degree might be in herpetology or Renaissance literature.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The idea of a female herpetologist releasing a soft drink is amazing

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Had to look this up. Dr. Pepper was formulated in Waco Texas by a pharmacist named Charles Alderton, for the soda fountain in the drugstore where he worked. Some say his employer, Wade Morrison, named it after a Dr. Charles Pepper, the father of an old girlfriend. But the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco has been unable to confirm this story.