Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should!
Some kind of weird Valentine’s Day special?
It’s the perfect gift for the partner you no longer wish to date.
My thoughts exactly.
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.
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.
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 ….
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.
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.
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.
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.





