Coca-Cola loses court case to distribute Dr. Pepper

[thewayne]

BLEH!

In case you were unaware, Dr. Pepper was not a Coke product. They were their own brand, and in the last year or two became the #2 cola, bumping Pepsi out of that slot.

Coke had a contract for their distribution, which is why you usually saw it on the menu at Coke restaurants. But now, as of Monday the 27th, many restaurants will be starting to serve Mr. Pibb, a vastly inferior product (IMO). Presumably Keurig, Dr. Pepper's owner, will have its own distribution deals in place, but it may be a bit chaotic until things settle down.

Usually I drink iced tea (unsweet) when dining out, but on rare occasion I'll get a Dr. Pepper. I don't like disruptions like this! Grrr....

I am a little perplexed and amused that it took the legal system to resolve whether or not Dr. Pepper were allowed to distribute their own product. I guess big business just can't give up that last penny of profit, even if they don't make the product that they're distributing.

https://www.silive.com/business/2025/10/coca-cola-to-pull-popular-soda-flavor-from-restaurants-and-venues.html

Comments

[disneydream06]

DANG, I miss pop sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. :(

[thewayne]

I drink very little of it.  I have 100 calorie mini-cans of Pepsi at home and at work that I drink on rare occasion, made with real sugar.  Why drink HFCS when you can have the real stuff?  I don't eat fast food very much any more, and when I do it's almost always unsweet iced tea.

[disneydream06]

If I do get something to drink it's either a milkshake or maybe a lemonade. :)

A former friend convinced me to stop drinking pop all together because it would be good for my diet, and we can see how well that went. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thewayne]

Back in the late '80s I worked with my friend Phil at a state agency whom I'd previously worked with. I bought a mini-fridge from that unit's former boss, Gary, who interviewed me: turned out his last day with the state was my last day with my previous employer and I never worked a day for him, which sucked, because Larry, the guy who took over, REALLY sucked! ANYWAY, I used to wait until holiday sales and buy multiple flats of Pepsi. A flat = six or eight six-packs? And you'd pay, I want to say, a couple bucks or less a six-pack. I'd stack them in my closet and take them into work with me and stock 'em in my fridge, along with my lunch. Phil left the agency and went to work for Gary, eventually I left and went to the police dept.

After some time at the PD, I started drinking water instead of Pepsi. And after I left the PD in 2001, I drove out to California and met up with Phil and his girlfriend, I was going to spend a few days with him. We had dinner and were standing in the parking lot talking before driving to the town where they lived. I paused the conversation and said I needed to get something to drink out of my Rodeo and retrieved a big bottle of water, and blew Phil's mind that it wasn't a can of Pepsi.

I do occasionally enjoy a good chocolate milkshake, but it has to be a really good one. I won't bother with most fast food ones. Lemonade, as a rule, I won't bother with because it's just lemon-flavored sugar water at most places.

[disneydream06]

WOW that's what you call one heck of a sale. :o

Yeah, it's pretty hard to get something decent to drink if you are drinking pop, booze, or coffee.