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AlphaWhelp posted...

Dr Pepper is not a real person.

This is the guy who invented it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alderton

This person then sold the drink to a guy named Wade Morrison.

Wade Morrison just called it "Pepper" originally. Dr. Pepper came later.

Nobody knows exactly why he called it Pepper. The Charles T Pepper story is an unproven myth.

"Pepper hired Wade Morrison in 1874, and Morrison worked for Pepper for a few years, leaving in 1880 to travel west. In Texas, Morrison obtained employment as a pharmacist in Austin and then later in Round Rock.[15] Morrison moved around Texas, ending in Waco. In 1882 he bought John W. Castles's drug store in downtown Waco. In 1885, Morrison employed pharmacist Charles Alderton.[15] Alderton, of New York State, went to school in England, gaining knowledge of carbonated beverages. Morrison and Alderton mixed carbonated water, fruit juices, and sugar to produce a soft drink that had an unusual taste.[15][16] It was eventually called "a Waco" the customers at the drug store would order this drink saying, shoot a Waco.[17] There are nearly a thousand people in Rural Retreat that claim the formula for the drink was stolen by Morrison."

Just like I said above, Dr pepper made the formula, which was then taken without his permission and commercialized it.

Dr Pepper was in fact a real person, who worked with the person who "created" the formula. I wrongly stated it was his son in law, but that person took the formula from Dr Pepper and commercialized it in Texas. Dr Pepper never forgave him for that.