Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should!
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Some kind of weird Valentine’s Day special?
It’s the perfect gift for the partner you no longer wish to date.
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My thoughts exactly.
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I’d hit that, but I like Dr. Pepper. Tictac not so much.
Dr Pepper is my fav diet soda, and when I was a wee tyke DrPepper wasn’t available where we lived, so when we visited down South I always looked forward to a bottle of 10 2 4 (the old label - it was supposed to represent the times of day when you could enjoy a Dr Pepper). But tic tacs??? Big no from me.
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Back when we still drank soda, diet Dr. Pepper was the only diet soda I could stomach. I now find diet soda absolutely undrinkable — it’s the artificial sweeteners, I think 
I’d rather have the real deal, like the occasional bottle of Mexicoke.
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Mexicoke is stashed here along with real sugar fever tree ginger ale. In the medicine cabinet, of course. 
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I think you can order real sugar Dr Pepper ….
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According to RLB (in The Cake Bible), the way to concentrate the flavor of raspberries is by nuking them, not by boiling them down on a stovetop (which caramelizes the sugars in the berries, thus altering the taste). I imagine the same holds true for strawberries.
Interesting! I’ll try that next time I make homemade ice cream. Which will be in many months, but nice to contemplate after the recent blizzard. If I have enough berries, I could even try an experiment with 4 variants: control, freeze-dried added, cooked down, and nuked.
When I was a teenager, I had a part-time job at a small-town drugstore near me. The owner kept containers of pure Coca-Cola syrup with all the other medications–it’s supposedly good for stomach issues.
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For the longest time, my grandma had a medicine bottle with Coca Cola syrup that she got from the pharmacy. I’m pretty sure I had a spoonful or two if it as a child for a bellyache.
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Yup, my Mom had the same thing - used for nausea. Once we could keep this down (a tsp over two half-hour periods) we were allowed to graduate to dry toast.
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That doesn’t surprise me one bit. I would often get crackers or saltines & cold Coca-Cola as a kid if my tummy was upset.
I still love it when I’m hungover — rare occasion that may be these days.
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Nope
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