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Drink a bite to eat?

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Let's learn math, but completely eff up grammar.

"Darts for Dough." Never heard of that one. Was that early TV or a radio show? I can't imaging it being very interesting to listen to if the latter.

Re: Drink a bite to eat?

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Darts for Dough was an audience-participation radio program on the Blue Network (predecessor to ABC) which aired during World War II. Dr Pepper was the lead sponsor of the show.

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, she looks exactly like my mom did when she was young.

[adrienneee.livejournal.com]

OH, the "Drink a bite to eat" campaign. Dr Pepper, how I loves ya.

Fun fact: Despite the persistent myth, there is no prune juice in Dr Pepper. Also, the pure cane version (now much more widely available than when I was a kid and had to drive to the Dublin, TX plant to get it) is divine.

[vix.livejournal.com]

The pure cane version is what turned me onto Dr. Pepper in the first place! Couldn't stand it before, tried the pure cane version, and now I think it is all awesome.

[medren.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I love the cane sugar Dr. Pepper...and they have cool retro cans and package designs like this ad.

[adrienneee.livejournal.com]

Used to be that you could ONLY get the cane sugar Dr Pepper from the Dublin bottling plant which, I might add, is literally west of absolutely nowhere. It was made on the original machinery and only got bottled into the teeny, old school glass bottles. To get them, we'd have to drive the however many hours from Dallas out to West Texas, where my dad would stock up and then horde them until our next trip out. Seeing it for sale widely now just bakes my brain... a bottle of original recipe Dr Pepper was something you got for good grades at my house.

Oh god, and the real cane sugar version HOT, with lemon, in the winter. Amazing. Don't do it with the regular corn syrup stuff, though, it's terrible.

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

Yes, substitute soda for actual food, that'll turn out well.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

At least they're admitting it has the calorie content of food!

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

Good point!

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

What a pretty ad!

[whoseline_wlsc]

That's some pretty artwork. "Darts For Dough"....sounds exciting hahahaha

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

So Dr. Pepper was really the first one to 'drinkify snacks.'

[basking-lizard.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they used slyrup in the recipe.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

I'm the most irked by the clock face, where the ten o'clock is in a wrong place!

..hmm, what that tells about me?

[tabaqui]

I cannot imagine drinking soda at ten o'clock in the morning. Ick.