Funnily enough I picked Dr. Pepper as a guy because I think “Doctor hocking Miracle Tonic” and I think of late 1800s “doctor” do sleazy shit
He had more of a Ulysses S. Grant looking beard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper
He wasn’t actually involved with the drink.
Of course they’re a guy. Otherwise it’d be Drs. Pepper. /s
Doctoress. Didn’t realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it’s awesome.
It does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
I never considered Dr Pepper as a person because they made a big deal about how it doesn’t have a period in the name, like an actual doctor title would. So it’s always just been a brand name to me.
But I’m a bit neurotic about nitpicky details like that.
Dr Pepper was designed to taste like what a soda fountain smells like, a mix of flavors like when you made “swamp water” as a kid.
So it’s “Dur Pepper’s Monster” to me.
To Europeans it tastes like mouthwash
It’s not selling very well I don’t think
My mom told me Dr. Pepper was made from prune juice, which I guess is party true about the original formula.
You can’t misgender a brand. You can’t deadname a brand. You can’t befriend a brand.
I mean, they did have an entire ad campaign that was just misogyny a while back. Although then again maybe she was working through some shit.
