I have always hated Dr. Pepper. It tastes like cough medicine. My sister-in-law would have Dr. Pepper for every meal, if she could get enough nutrition from it. Not with her meal, FOR her meal. I had a DP one day, on a whim and realized I did not have the hatred for it any longer. I actually enjoyed it. I had it on another occasion, and another. Then last week I had it at MOPs. Then I had another one last week I had bought (oh yeah, we buy and keep sodas because we know that a lot of our friends and family drink it, so we keep it on hand, in case someone visiting wants one). I drank the whole can in about 3 minutes. Then we went to my in-laws' on Sunday, and I had more. I could feel it becoming a habit. Dusty's aunt gave us a 2-liter she had brought that was extra. I drank 2 during lunch yesterday, and I just had another glass. Yep. Pretty sure I'm feeling an addiction coming on. I wanted to drink more last night at 8, but I didn't want the caffeine (or calories). Weird. Tastes change.
Ahhhh...
Jennie, you are probably not old enough to remember when Dr. Pepper was sold as a health tonic. They used to advertise, primarily in the South, with road signs that had a 10, a 2 and a 4 in a circle and in the middle was the slogan "Time for Dr. Pepper". You were supposed to read "ten, two and four, time for Dr. Pepper", i.e drink it three times a day. I'm pretty sure the taste was developed to purposely taste like medicine.
ReplyDeleteSo...just limit yourself to three a day and you should be fine! BTW: are you feeling better now with your new health tonic?