125 Years of Excellence

Thanks to Pop Candy I have learned that my favorite soft drink Dr Pepper debuted way back in 1885 (even though I should have known this already because it says so on all of their cans). The brand celebrated it's 125th anniversary by staging a flash mob yesterday at the New York Stock Exchange.



The man singing is David Naughton (Cal Naughton, Jr's uncle?), who appeared in Dr Pepper's "Be a Pepper" ad campaign back in the 1970's. As much as I like Dr Pepper, I have to admit that this was one of the worst flash mob (apparently that's the term) performances that I have ever seen.

Either way, here are some cool things to know about Dr Pepper:

Dr Pepper predates Coca-Cola by one year.

There is no period in Dr Pepper as it was removed for styllistic and legibility reasons in the 1950's.

There is a Dr Pepper musuem in Waco, Texas.

In the Academy Award winning film Forrest Gump (1994), Forrest (played by Tom Hanks) is invited to the White House for being named as an All American kick returner for the University of Alabama. While there Forrest says, "The best part about goin' to the White House was, they had all the food and drink that you wanted ... I must have had me 15 Dr Peppers."

I own this t-shirt and wore it as a part of my not so witty Halloween costume.