So I'm heading back home for a visit and I want to bring some some Dublin DP for the friends/family to taste. Anybody know where I can buy it in bottles or cans around here? I found it on the website, but the prices for shipping and pacakging are kinda high--and I don't want to drive out there. Anybody seen it around town?

The Valero on Booneville Rd at the entrance to Copperfield has it.

IMO there really isn't much difference, I have never understood all the love for Dublins

Exxon at University and the Bypass has it.

Of all places, I think Turek's Computers in the Sunnyland Shopping Center on Texas Ave in Bryan has it.

Chicken Express at University and 6.

Chicken express has it in cans/bottles?

HEB? (Any grocery store?) Its there nearly every day I go shopping. Its not particularly rare anymore.

To a previous poster: I don't understand the obsession, either.

I didn't even know there were 2 diferent kinds of Dr Pepper

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Dublin Dr Pepper uses the original recipe sweetened with cane sugar. Regular Dr Pepper, like almost all sodas for the last several decades, is sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup instead. HFCS is cheaper than sugar for the same amount of sweetening, but also tastes different, and is arguably of even less nutritional value than sugar.

HEB has it in cans. the Exxon on University and 6 has it in bottles.

Dr. Pepper has in the past re-distributed the Dublin Dr. Pepper widely. Recently, I've seen the mass produced Diblin Dr Peppers gracing the shelves next to the standard recipe all over the state.

I am just curious- why is it called DUBLIN dr pepper? Is it made in ireland?

its made in Dublin, Texas

Oh...never heard of the place

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Recently, I've seen the mass produced Diblin Dr Peppers gracing the shelves next to the standard recipe all over the state.

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They operate under the same restrictions they always have - their distribution range is limited to X miles outside of Dublin. When you see it in stores, it's been bootlegged there. The Dallas Observer recently ran a cover story on how the number of DP bootleggers is rising exponentially.

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their distribution range is limited to X miles outside of Dublin

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X = the distance a horse drawn cart could deliver in a day... Basically Erath and two neighboring counties.

so if it is a bootleg does that make it a Dublin Dupe?

http://www.dublindrpepper.com/

That's a lot of fuss for a soft drink.

I played a Dr Pepper in 5th grade

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so if it is a bootleg does that make it a Dublin Dupe?

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No because it's not counterfeit, merely moved outside of their distribution range.

Many thanks to all ya'll who took the time to reply. I found the bottles at the Exxon.

I've checked the HEB's and I can't find any there however-- where are ya'll guys seeing it at?

Thanks!

I wondered that myself. I was at HEB on Saturday and didn't see any (though I did see some last summer).

HEB does not sell, nor have they ever sold
Dublin Dr. Pepper. For a while they were selling a Dr. Pepper with sugar instead of HFCS, but it was not pure cane sugar and it was not the same recipe as Dublin DP.

BTW, there are a few plants now using cane sugar, they'll typically have the Imperial Sugar logo on the bottle.

Only DP from Dublin will have Dublin Dr. Pepper on it.

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X = the distance a horse drawn cart could deliver in a day... Basically Erath and two neighboring counties.

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It's 40 miles, and it was limited to the distance they could travel, unload, and return from in one day because that was Comanche country. The founder of the bottling plant didn't want his employees getting attacked at night.

The bottling plant in Dublin is the oldest one still in operation, and the only one still using the original recipe.

That makes it a helluva lot cooler to drink then!

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The bottling plant in Dublin is ... the only one still using the original recipe.

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Not entirely true:

http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2008/07/07/50626

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You might call SH 36 the sugar highway because folks in Dublin use it to ship their sweet, syrupy formula to Temple where carbonated water is added. Then it is bottled and canned, and returned to Dublin.

“They’ve got a unique situation out there,” said Temple Bottling Co. owner Ted Floca. “We’ve been good friends with the ownership in Dublin for years.”

Dr Pepper with pure cane sugar made by Temple Bottling Co. can also be purchased locally. (If you know where to look.) But back in Dublin, Ms. Dodd is quick to point out they are the mainstay.

“Other bottlers have that capability,” Ms. Dodd said, regarding using sugar instead of corn syrup. “Temple does it occasionally . . . but we’re the only ones that do it non-stop. But any Dr Pepper is a good Dr Pepper.”

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Wikipedia says:
Three other bottlers, two of which are also based in Texas, are confirmed to use cane sugar - Temple Bottling Company of Temple, Texas (which is actually the largest producer of Dr Pepper using cane sugar), Ab-Tex Bottling of Abilene, Texas and West Jefferson Dr Pepper of West Jefferson, North Carolina.

It may not say "Dublin" Dr. Pepper, but if they use Imperial cane sugar, it's the original recipe.

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HEB had it several months ago in the 4 or 6 pack little bottles. There was an aisle display down where the Sour Cream and Cottage cheese is. At the end of the light bulb aisle. I have not seen it there recently but it was there and it was Dublin Dr Pepper.

Jason's Wife

Dublin actually still bottles in the thick "Refund" bottles...but only on wednesday.

The pressure from the machine that caps the bottles would shatter the "throw away" bottles so they outsource them.

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HFCS is cheaper than sugar for the same amount of sweetening...

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This may not be true any longer - ethanol production is forcing the prices of corn and products made from it (like HFCS) up, and if they get high enough, the drink manufactures might consider going back to sugar.

Turek's Computer "Dr" (on Texas Avenue near downtown Bryan) sells Dublin Dr. Pepper!