Polar or A & W Root Beer
Michael Kalman
in London (England) that sells either of these Root Beer brands??
Cheers, Mike
Wim Jay
"Michael Kalman" <michael...@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Sorry if this is a little off topic, but does anyone know of any
outlets
> in London (England) that sells either of these Root Beer brands??
I cannot help you with a London outlet, but this place supplies A & W
by mail order......
http://www.madeinamerica.co.uk/
HTH.
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Wim
Jonadab the Unsightly One
> Sorry if this is a little off topic, but does anyone know of any outlets
> in London (England) that sells either of these Root Beer brands??
A&W is I *think* a Pepsico product, IIRC. I don't know whether
that will help you track it down. You could look at www.pepsi.com
and see if they list local retailers, but that's a serious longshot.
Better might be to use a search engine that lets you limit results
to websites in a certain country and hunt it down that way.
- jonadab
Keith Morgan
FTR, A&W Root Beer is NOT (I repeat, NOT) a Pepsi
product; instead A&W's a Dr. Pepper product.
(I know this for a fact.) However, Pepsi does have a Root Beer
soda by the name of Mugs Root Beer
(although I must admit that it tastes mostly like Draft Root Beer --
of which, I don't particularly care for).
Personally, I prefer the taste of both A&W and Barq's Root Beer
(a Coke product) over Mugs Root Beer.
I also like IBC Root Beer (don't ask who produces & distributes
IBC Root Beer), as well.
Keith
P.S. BTW, who makes Polar Root Beer? (I've never heard of them before.)
Workerman
>
> FTR, A&W Root Beer is NOT (I repeat, NOT) a Pepsi product; instead
> A&W's a Dr. Pepper product.
> (I know this for a fact.)
Which is a Pepsico Product. I know, thier warehouse is not far from
here.
Jonadab the Unsightly One
Keith Morgan <pea...@pdq.net> wrote:
> FTR, A&W Root Beer is NOT (I repeat, NOT) a Pepsi product;
> instead A&W's a Dr. Pepper product. (I know this for a fact.)
Isn't Dr. Pepper a Pepsico product? I could have sworn Dr.
Pepper and Mountain Dew and Taco Bell and Pizza Hut and
KFC were all owned by Pepsico. I'm not absolutely certain,
but I sure thought so...
> Personally, I prefer the taste of both A&W and Barq's Root
> Beer (a Coke product) over Mugs Root Beer.
Barq's and A&W taste *nothing* alike. Barq's has actual
zip, and A&W is just... I don't know, it tastes like what
you'd expect root beer to taste like if it were manufactured
by a cream soda company. All sweet and no flavour. Like
the Pepsi (as opposed to Coke) of the root beer market.
Actually, I kind of like the offbrand root beer we
can get at Sav-A-Lot. Weird, I know. But I also
like Barq's. A&W I'll drink if it's the only root
beer available and I'm in the mood for root beer,
but it just isn't the same.
- jonadab
Jonadab the Unsightly One
> Isn't Dr. Pepper a Pepsico product? I could have sworn Dr.
> Pepper and Mountain Dew and Taco Bell and Pizza Hut and
> KFC were all owned by Pepsico. I'm not absolutely certain,
> but I sure thought so...
[Digs around among the cans waiting to be recycled.]
Well, I can definitely confirm that Mountain Dew and
Slice are Pepsico products and that Sprite and Minute
Maid are Coca-Cola products. But we don't have any
Dr. Pepper or A&W cans at the moment.
- jonadab
Doug Weller
> "Michael Kalman" <michael...@virgin.net> wrote:
>
> > Sorry if this is a little off topic, but does anyone know of any outlets
> > in London (England) that sells either of these Root Beer brands??
>
> A&W is I *think* a Pepsico product, IIRC.
>
don't like theirs.
Doug
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The Cat in the Hat
and go to the history section. Dr. Pepper was originally a Texas-based
company (first sold in Waco). Dr. Pepper and Seven Up merged in the
1980s, and the British firm Cadbury Schweppes acquired Dr.
Pepper/Seven Up in the 1990s.
The distribution of soft drinks made for some odd bedfellows - a local
bottler might have bottled both Pepsi and Dr. Pepper, but Pepsi does
not own Dr. Pepper.
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:34:52 GMT, Workerman <Work...@Boring.com>
wrote:
Alex Tribble
helps with distribution.
Jonadab the Unsightly One
> Dr. Pepper is not a Pepsi product - look at the Dr. Pepper web site:
>
> www.drpepper.com
The page is totally _blank_.
> Dr. Pepper and Seven Up merged in the 1980s,
Ah. 7-up is _not_ a Pepsi product, nor a Coke
product; it's independent. Not sure why I know
this, but I'm pretty sure.
The weird thing is, Dr. Pepper is almost *always*
sold at restaurants that sell Pepsi products and
never at restaurants that sell Coke products.
A&W is often sold with Pepsi products also, but
not always.
> and the British firm Cadbury Schweppes acquired Dr.
> Pepper/Seven Up in the 1990s.
Hmmm... So A&W is owned by Dr. Pepper, which is
merged with 7-up and owned by Cadbury Schweppes.
That's okay; Kool-Aid is a product of Kraft Foods,
which merged with Phillip Morris and was subsequently
acquired by a holding company. (Phillip-Morris/Kraft
also owns RJR/Nabisco.)
- jonadab
The Cat in the Hat
Unsightly One) wrote:
>c...@seuss.com (The Cat in the Hat) wrote:
>
>> Dr. Pepper is not a Pepsi product - look at the Dr. Pepper web site:
>>
>> www.drpepper.com
>
>The page is totally _blank_.
Patience - it takes a moment to load
>> Dr. Pepper and Seven Up merged in the 1980s,
>
>Ah. 7-up is _not_ a Pepsi product, nor a Coke
>product; it's independent. Not sure why I know
>this, but I'm pretty sure.
>
>The weird thing is, Dr. Pepper is almost *always*
>sold at restaurants that sell Pepsi products and
>never at restaurants that sell Coke products.
>A&W is often sold with Pepsi products also, but
>not always.
That is because Coke has its own version of Dr. Pepper called Mr. Pibb
(Dr. P and Mr. P - how imaginative of Coke) and the nature of fountain
sales. Coke may do some arm twisting to get fountains to sell Mr. Pibb
instead of Dr. Pepper. By the way, I understand that Mr. Pibb is on
the way out, to be replaced by a "spicier" product (whatever that
means).
Gregory L. Hansen
The Cat in the Hat <c...@seuss.com> wrote:
>That is because Coke has its own version of Dr. Pepper called Mr. Pibb
>(Dr. P and Mr. P - how imaginative of Coke) and the nature of fountain
>sales. Coke may do some arm twisting to get fountains to sell Mr. Pibb
>instead of Dr. Pepper. By the way, I understand that Mr. Pibb is on
>the way out, to be replaced by a "spicier" product (whatever that
>means).
There's a whole slew of Dr-flavored softdrinks (prune flavored, I think).
I've seen Mr. Pibb, Dr Pepper, Dr. Smooth, Dr. Pop, Dr. Right, Dr. Thirst,
and I forget how many others.
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"Gregory L. Hansen" <glha...@steel.ucs.indiana.edu> wrote in message
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> In article <3af2999b....@trialnews.peoplepc.com>,
> The Cat in the Hat <c...@seuss.com> wrote:
>
> >That is because Coke has its own version of Dr. Pepper called Mr. Pibb
> >(Dr. P and Mr. P - how imaginative of Coke) and the nature of fountain
> >sales. Coke may do some arm twisting to get fountains to sell Mr. Pibb
> >instead of Dr. Pepper. By the way, I understand that Mr. Pibb is on
> >the way out, to be replaced by a "spicier" product (whatever that
> >means).
>
>
> There's a whole slew of Dr-flavored softdrinks (prune flavored, I think).
> I've seen Mr. Pibb, Dr Pepper, Dr. Smooth, Dr. Pop, Dr. Right, Dr. Thirst,
musn't (or must?) forget Dr. Shasta, Southern Lightning, Dr. Hy-Vee, and Dr.
Skipper, probably more than that, but there's some more
Jonadab the Unsightly One
> >The page is totally _blank_.
>
> Patience - it takes a moment to load
No, it was totally blank even when it said "document done".
I looked at the source code, and I agreed with the browser's
rendition of it: there was no content. However, I just
looked again, and it is no longer blank. Apparently they
were making changes to the site when I tried to view it
last time. (Now it has content, but nothing whatsoever
to do with soft drinks; apparently they have been taken
over (or at least their website has) by something called
macromedia. (Isn't that the company responsible for that
idiotic glorified slideshow thingy called Director, the
one with the Lingo scripting language? I *hated* trying
to work with that; it's worse than Power Point.)
> >The weird thing is, Dr. Pepper is almost *always*
> >sold at restaurants that sell Pepsi products and
> >never at restaurants that sell Coke products.
>
> That is because Coke has its own version of Dr. Pepper called Mr. Pibb
Mr. Pibb is almost never sold, period. It doesn't taste like
anything; certainly not like Dr. Pepper. Most places that have
Coke products, if you ask for Dr. Pepper they'll try to tell
you Cherry Coke is their equivalent, which is (almost?) as
preposterous as claiming that Mr. Pibb is equivalent.
> (Dr. P and Mr. P - how imaginative of Coke) and the nature of fountain
> sales. Coke may do some arm twisting to get fountains to sell Mr. Pibb
> instead of Dr. Pepper.
Most places that have Coke products don't sell _anything_
in place of Dr. Pepper (unless you count Cherry Coke, which
is totally dissimilar); they just don't have it.
> By the way, I understand that Mr. Pibb is on the way out,
Mr. Pibb was on the way out before it was concocted.
- jonadab
Alex Tribble
entirely with one distributor or the other - at local Whataburgers, Dr.
Pepper and Coke are friendly neighbors.
Keith Morgan
You always see that happen (Coke & Dr. Pepper being "friendly neighbors) is
most restaurants nowadays.
In fact, on a recent visit to my favorite Chinese Buffet place (China
Border), when I aske a waiter what
they had to offer in soft drinks, she responded by saying, "Coke, Diet
Coke, Sprite, Dr. Pepper," (among others).
Anyway, like I've been saying, it's almost commonplace to see Coke & Dr.
Pepper being "friendly neighbors"
at most restaurants nowadays. Now, as for which soft drink that I order
when I'm eating out at a restaurant,
it depends on what kind of mood I'm in at the moment & what my tastebuds
want.
Keith