Dear Josh, on behalf of the Dr. Pepper company, we appreciate you for making this video. Now if you would be so kind as to give us your home address, would like to...thank...you personally.
Especially since A&W, Dr. Pepper and RC are the three under same umbrella. Coke is competitor so wouldn't be used. I'm a northeast boy and proud of our brands.
@@spencerwells1328 in the Cola realm the there were many regional variants. Now most people only think of 2 really but at one point almost every soda jerk had a special recipe. The reason why I cited RC is Dr. Pepper, A&W, Canada Dry and RC Cola started in my neck of the woods within decades of each other. Rhett and Link always talk about Pepsi being the pride of the Carolinas. Well we New Englanders are pretty proud of RC.
blink blink blink blinkblinkblink Blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blink blinkblinkblinkblink "I'M NOT CRAZY" I guess, but maybe you need some visene for dry eye?
I have this conspiracy theory that Josh destroyed all his taste buds with creatine or mass builder shakes and he's now completely unable to taste any food. He hides it very well with his extensive culinary skill and knowledge, so he makes food that tastes good. He just can't actually taste it himself. I wish I could cite more sources for my conspiracy theory but I guess you'll have to do your own research.
I believe you the truth is out there! We should start a message board and Teamspeak. The more data in our database the better! And the more we are the more thinking power to prove it!
Root beer is one of the 23 flavors it's just that there's 21 more than described in this video which all balance together so it doesn't just taste like root beer
Literally just tried it. Doesn't taste anything like Dr pepper. I've got no idea what josh is talking about. Root beer has that sarsaparilla and wintergreen taste that we are all familiar with, something Dr. Pepper doesn't really taste like
Okay but on the topic of soda beers personally I think birch beer is the best followed by sarsaparilla. Traditional root beer is still good on occasion though.
That would be because Dr. Pepper's original flavor is listed as "spicy cherry soda" or "spicy cherry cola" (I forget which, but cherry is always in the name).
Did the math and this checks out. Def adds to 23, (Texas accounting for 9). TX formula: barbecue sauce, gunmetal, fossil fuel, border wall, paper money, unread constitutions, Ted Cruz follicle oil, leather, & sazón
That's probably because your brain has made such a dependence to this form of sugar and caffeine. That its kinda like low potency crack to a crack head. You could be given actually DP and told its this mixture and your brain would make you think there is a difference.
I don't drink soda anymore, 10 years off of caffeine. I tried this and no it doesn't work. the amount of fizz when combining has no flavor like Dr. pepper . It tastes like burnt sugar
@@clutchbleach2057 don’t worry about the guy who said it sounds like you have no friends, a lot of ppl genuinely hate when they see people who think things through instead of just going with whatever is the first thought that crossed your mind like they do-it reminds them of how intellectually lazy they are and they don’t like that because they want to believe they have above average intelligence and it forces to consider the possibility that maybe they don’t. Cognitive dissonance isn’t a pleasant feeling, which is why clever folks don’t get along with everyone; only other clever ppl. Everyone thinks they’re clever, but clever ppl are actually relatively rare as a statistical necessity. If everyone had above average intelligence it wouldn’t be above average lol. Don’t sweat it though, the dipshits may not wanna hang around you but I promise they don’t hate it as much as you’ll hate being around them 😂. It’s all about quality not quantity, I’d rather have one friend with the cognitive bandwidth to follow a conversation than 1000 imbecile friends. If you just want company get a cat or a dog, they also can’t follow conversation but at least they’re cute and fluffy!
These are the same people who claim root beer and Dr Pepper taste the same. I think they just don’t realize that sone people are taste blind like some people are color blind.
@@porcupineracer2 maybe dr pepper is like wine. The more you drink it the more you start to notice the difference in flavour. People that drink a good amount of it may be the ones that feel like they're nothing alike.
@@kermi1004 I can't really find any evidence for that. It seems generally agreed upon that the cola flavor was invented by Pemberton in 1886 and only adopted by other brands after that
He said the mix was cola, not coke specifically, i think he just used coke because it's the best tasting cola that you can find easily at any corner store
@@kermi1004 but there were no root beers that would have tasted or acted like A&w. Root beer in the 1800's was alcoholic. even when AW did come around 40 years later it had alcohol in it's cans for another 20 years.
Had them all in the fridge, tried it out of curiosity. Even got out a scale to make sure the ratio was exactly 2:1. In my opinion it's not the same, A&W comes through really strong. It's not a terrible mix, but not Dr Pepper.
@@ThePrufessa to measure with accuracy to the milliliter it's by far the fastest and easiest method. Though judging by your comment you have no idea what to do in a kitchen or you're 12.
@@kornbread435 dude... To the millimeter? You didn't need to be THAT accurate for some damn soda mixing. You're acting like you're mixing chemicals or something.
Being a heavy Dr. Pepper addict, I tried this myself with exact measurements and I can say it is absolutely nothing like Dr. Pepper.. I laugh to myself that some think they taste the same. The artistry and complexity put into the Dr. Pepper recipe is simply unmatchable..
When I was a kid and dad took us to McDonald’s he’d have us get him half Dr Pepper and half root beer. We called it dr beer, love those memories with my whole heart
So is this a thing everybody that likes drpepper stumbles upon cause I always did this and just replied to a different comment with 2 other people that do too.
@@DiamondSupplyC0 yes I'd just mix tons of stuff but that's how I figured out dr pepper and root beer was so good. I also remember getting "suicide" slushes at sonic where they'd mix all the slush flavors together.
Just mention that it is an opportunity to get kids interested in the sciences by using a social platform and a tiktok conspiracy. The exposure Mythical Kitchen provides with its 1.8 million subscribers is better than any pamphlet could ever hope.
My buddy used to make home made Dr peppers. He would take different sodas and mix them together. It was spot on. Just coke and root beer doesn't do it. You need cherry and vanilla and a couple other notes to get it right.
Okay I wish I was still talking to my ex because I have no idea what carousel cola is, but I love doing half root beer and half dr pepper as a beverage and my ex always made fun of me for it.
Nope because math is false. A&W and Dr.Peppee are sister companies so for his cola and root beer theory to very true needs to nix Coke for true sister RC Cola
I’ve always been told Dr. Pepper is like a Disaronno soda (always told disaronno specifically not amaretto in general but maybe) because they’re both so cherry and almond forward, and Disaronno is already nearing the 23 flavors from the apricot kernel (where much of the cherry/almond flavors come from) and 17 fruits and herbs, or whatever it is
I actually don’t like the restaurant version, at least not like the gallon or half gallon ones. It always seemed to have less carbonation to me… maybe it was just a shitty location but even out of the fountain it always seemed flatter to me.
@@randytrashcan I used to add Sprite (to make the carbonation level right) Powerade and mountain dew/mellow yellow? together at McDonald's for makeshift "Baja blast" it honestly tasted better I think.
If Dr Pepper has 12 botanicals and coke has 11… you simply can’t just add them and claim the 23 of Dr Pepper is those combined. Obviously they both will share some flavors initially.
I never liked root beer. It has sarsaparilla in it which is also a key ingredient in black licorice. And black licorice is nasty. But I’ve always liked Dr. Pepper. Strange thing happened when I just drank Dr. Pepper by itself and not after eating. I noticed the sarsaparilla flavor, which led me here. Now I’m questioning all of my life decisions 😫
I don’t own an MS but I have access to one and I could probably see if we could allow a student to get a profile from each of the three. Wouldn’t be any time soon I think it would be harder than just extracting them though. So many compounds that might end up in a solvent but not another. Also tons of sugar. Very long column needed
If you could do it in parts, remove some known compounds then pass it through the column and do it again but remove some other parts and do it multiple times and then put all the data toghether
That's why it's called a multi-spectrometer it should be easy enough, when access is to it is gained, to pass coke through then root beer though it may not be A&W most likely it would have back then been what they call sassafras or sarsaparilla root beer, because that is the oldest *root beer* drink that was called a *"soft drink"* no alcohol all the way back to the early 1400s but who knows for sure, people have been making different kinds of drinks from seeds and roots and plants and flowers for along time. But I'd be willing to bet that it was sarsaparilla and not necessarily root beer as it is known today because most people haven't even heard of it before at least not since I was a kid drinking it but I can definitely believe coca cola syrup and sassafras would definitely taste like Dr Pepper. Because I always thought Dr. Pepper tasted familiar .
It’s called a Mass Spectrometer. Have over 25 years operating magnetic sector Gas Chromatography Mass Spec, low resolution mass spec, triple quadrupole mass spec and negative ion electron impact mass spec. You would have to do a number of mass spec analysis using both volatile and semi-volatile methodologies. See EPA methods 8260 and 8270
@@631Rogers that’s what I thought. I’m hoping a college student might be interested in looking into this for a summer project. Not my job and i don’t have time to do it but a student could get a nice poster out of it
I have a conspiracy theory that Josh is a robot because that's definitely not what that tastes like. Dr. Pepper is quite fruity and some of its major notes are plum and vanilla.
@@Dead_Goat What's funny is, the cherry and amaretto notes you detect might be one and the same flavor component - almond extract smells and tastes like maraschino cherries, and is often used as cherry flavoring. That being said, that's definitely one of the flavors that comes through fairly strong for me!
@@Primalxbeast That’s funny! I have always thought the same thing. It’s common in Scandinavian and Irish recipes so I always assumed that all spice must have been the only spice they had access to. 🤣
"The 23 flavors are cola, cherry, licorice, amaretto, vanilla, blackberry, apricot, blackberry, caramel, pepper, anise, sarsaparilla, ginger, molasses, lemon, plum, orange, nutmeg, cardamon, all spice, coriander, juniper, birch and prickly ash." Root Beer has similar botanicals but differs in the ingredients, as does coca cola. When you mix two spiced brown sodas, it will taste like a spiced brown soda, but to imply any similarity beyond that doesn't really check out for me, since I hate the flavor of root beer, and like the flavor of Dr. Pepper. I also don't think the 2/1 coke root beer mix tastes like Dr. Pepper.
"sarsaparilla" there's where he's getting his idea for it being root beer - Dr Pepper and most Root Beers probably use the same sarsaparilla substitute flavorings to get that old timey flavor (since I know they don't use actual sarsaparilla these days). But its still going to be lacking a lot of other flavors. Adding sarsaparilla flavor to coke does not a dr pepper make.
Fun Fact : Moxie came out in 1876, which is a decade before Coke. It is still around, and enjoyed by many of us Mainers. They even made a version of it in the popular video game Fallout 4- in the dlc Far Harbor. So neither are the oldest soda around.
I was at work the other day and we had a half used can of root beer for a float, so I mixed it with my Coca-Cola and it did not taste like Dr Pepper to me
There's a trick I learned a long time ago when customers really want ginger ale and you don't have any to serve you can give them Sprite with a squirt of coke. This was usually reserved for difficult customers and was an easy way to make them happy
That is well known with bartenders, however you are supposed to add a dash of bitters as well, that's what gives it the traditional bitter bite of ginger
I agree we need to get John on this. Not to confirm it, or even that we need it denied. Honestly if I pour Dr Pepper over ICE that has touched A&W, it no longer tastes like Dr Pepper. But we all just loved John's reactions in his taste test and we want to see his look of puzzlement, pity, and irrational rage, all at once.
I first thought cherry coke tasted like Dr Pepper until I tried cherry coke again months later, they are distinct, the only similarity is of course is some cherry flavor
My family and I would consider myself a dr. Pepper addict. I can tell the difference between regular, diet, 10, and zero. I’m gonna have to put this to the test but I have some serious doubts
Josh I love you but I will slap you for the blasphemy you are spreading on the internet. Dr. Pepper is a gift from the gods and in no way is mixture of other sodas.
At the Dr. Pepper bottling plant and museum in Dublin, Texas(this was years ago), the story was the Dr. Pepper was a suicide of several different sodas at a fountain where he worked and later he replicated that flavor himself. This is perhaps why I found this unremarkable coming from you, because I already believe it to be true.
Not a Dr Pepper bottling company now. Sadly, They can’t make or bottle Dr Pepper in Dublin, Texas anymore. Snapple Dr Pepper threatened to sue them. All Dr Pepper is a sarsaparilla.
So I once did work for a guy who used to work for Doctor Pepper, and I learned a couple interesting facts. At the time (roughly 2012) it was the most highly carbonated major soft drink. He also said the original main flavoring was prune juice. While he believes it's been modified over time, an imitation prune juice was his best guess as to what the main flavoring they are using now is
I also heard somewhere that the main flavoring is or was prune juice. Seems like I may have heard that years ago when Paul Harvey told the story about how Dr. Pepper was created.
Does brand matter? Commonly unknown fact. Nearly all root beers (at least in America) are caffeine free, but not Barq's brand. Except diet Barq's root beer, which like nearly all other versions of root beer, is caffeine free
@@Brandyalla It's bottled and distributed by Coca-Cola, so you can generally find it along side other coke products, I even frequently see it in vending machines and self serve fountains around where live.
Barq's root beer smells and tastes like tobacco chewers spit to me. It's gross is what I'm saying. I love A&W root beer so don't think I'm a root beer hater....just barq's...
Huh. If this is true, that explains why I like Dr. Pepper the most: it's a combo of my second and fourth favorite sodas (not including flavor combo sodas; that's a different list).
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Dear Josh, on behalf of the Dr. Pepper company, we appreciate you for making this video. Now if you would be so kind as to give us your home address, would like to...thank...you personally.
Please don't umm... "thank" my favorite RUclipsrs. I will cry 🤣
😂
"we would like to schedule your next Dr.'s visit"
This comment is… chef’s kiss
yeah, thank him, don't shank him.
Someone call John green to test this he’s the only doctor pepper expert we can trust
Big facts
I think he responded to a different video of this and said that he tried it it, and while it was somewhat similar, it wasn't nearly the same.
@@res1dentcyn1c What if it were cherry coke XD
YAAAS
I just came from watching John Green's video 😂
I just tested this .... and I am now doubting Josh has ever drank a Dr Pepper
yea, tastes nothing like it
Yeah 😂😂😂😂 he must be taste blind
Dr.Pepper has such a heavy taste of Cherry, and virtually no Vanilla at all, which coke and rootbeer both use.
@@kyin45 Dr Pepper is basically a fruit soda has a ton of different fruit flavors basically
fr i used to mix coke n root beer all the time still do sometimes nothing like dr pepper
I think we need to call Mr. Pibb as a star witness in trial.
Im very high and this made me crack up
Absolutely!😂
Doctor!? Mr Pibb is just as good and didn’t waste years in medical school.
@@aaronpinkham4196 exactly, and we all know the academics types steal the ideas of the uneducated, so obviously Mr. Pibb made the original formula.
@@-pyrosef- glad to be of service.
“Where did you even go to medical school?!”
Idk, but he was still a fizzician.
Well played sir, well played.
He was an apothecary
@@drigondii …or an A-pop-ecary?
Stolen joke....
So, someone just saw the "dad jokes" video huh?
"I'm not crazy!"
Please don't lie to us, Josh...
I was also thinking this hes not scary crazy hes like quirky crazy
“My mother had me tested!”
@@calamarimatahari1008 although I do regret not following up with that specialist in Houston
@@2gunz122 👍
No, you ARE crazy...
See, these are "Coca-Cola" products - therefore it would in fact, be "Mr Pibb", not "Dr Pepper". 😉🤓
Have Rhett and Link do a blind taste test! And maybe throw in some other combinations that you think taste like something else.
3 parts barqs 1 part jagermeister = purple pixie stick
@@brandonfuller754 I always thought this combo tasted like those root beer barrel candies.
@@savecharlie maybe my ratio might be off.. but you are also correct
please
To do justice to his theory. HE has to drop the rival Coke and do the same experiment with the sister Cola to A&W namely RC cola
Josh definitely doesn't know what Dr. Pepper tastes like 😂
I tried it and it’s pretty close but just not enough to be similar
Dr Pepper does have a hint of a rootbeer like taste
Dr Pepper taste like cherry juice
@@Art-ef5vnThank u!! I was thinking it MIGHT work if it was a Cherry Coke & Root Beer
@jesusramirezromo2037 it's definitely a spiced drink.. but likely birch beer
"I didn't go to 12 years of Soda Medical School to be called Mr Pepper."
Just tried this. He's clearly lost his mind, it's nothing like dr. pepper
Especially since A&W, Dr. Pepper and RC are the three under same umbrella. Coke is competitor so wouldn't be used. I'm a northeast boy and proud of our brands.
Nice try, Coca Cola
@@Darkgryphonl0rd78 if he was experimenting with different sodas....wouldnt coke be one of them used since there wasnt very many back then?
@@spencerwells1328 in the Cola realm the there were many regional variants. Now most people only think of 2 really but at one point almost every soda jerk had a special recipe. The reason why I cited RC is Dr. Pepper, A&W, Canada Dry and RC Cola started in my neck of the woods within decades of each other. Rhett and Link always talk about Pepsi being the pride of the Carolinas. Well we New Englanders are pretty proud of RC.
@@Darkgryphonl0rd78 lol you act like you made them
Instructions were unclear. Whiskey made its way into all 3 sodas
😂😂
Lmao
Damn alcoholic your life revolves around beer and whiskey
dr pepper + whiskey is always good imo.
Happens every time
My theory is he is a "pepsi and coke taste the same" type of guy...
They are
Do you have tastebuds
@@nick31427 as I am a cook. yes.
I never understood how people aren't able to tell the difference between Pepsi and coke.
@@Rizzinfallen1VODs I meant to reply to the guy claiming they taste the same lol.
The thing that makes this a conspiracy theory is the touch of frantic passion behind it.
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"I'M NOT CRAZY"
I guess, but maybe you need some visene for dry eye?
And the "do your own research" equivalency...
"If you don't believe me, try it yourself"
always suspected josh's taste buds might be dead... this confirms
I have this conspiracy theory that Josh destroyed all his taste buds with creatine or mass builder shakes and he's now completely unable to taste any food. He hides it very well with his extensive culinary skill and knowledge, so he makes food that tastes good. He just can't actually taste it himself. I wish I could cite more sources for my conspiracy theory but I guess you'll have to do your own research.
Would also explain the craziness behind his eyes.
I believe you the truth is out there! We should start a message board and Teamspeak. The more data in our database the better! And the more we are the more thinking power to prove it!
Having a sense of taste would just limit the culinary possibilities.
It's why Bender Bending Rodriguez was such a fantastic chef
Hahahhahahahaha here I found these 3 papers that infer this definitely!! See attached.
Your theory is wrong as there is no mass there
As a huge fan of Dr. Pepper, it tastes NOTHING like Root Beer. I despise root beer.
Root beer is one of the 23 flavors it's just that there's 21 more than described in this video which all balance together so it doesn't just taste like root beer
Can we just acknowledge the thanksgiving special where josh talked to him self for like a half hour
in the true spirit of thanksgiving. being alone because i'm thankful for solitude.
Lol yeah that was weird…
Nope, he wasn't just himself, there were plenty of people who had a nice conversation with him 😂
Josh is an American treasure and needs to be protected at all costs.
That was a brilliant piece of filmmaking, but I couldn't watch the whole thing. I can't handle the sounds of people eating in otherwise dead silence.
Literally just tried it. Doesn't taste anything like Dr pepper. I've got no idea what josh is talking about. Root beer has that sarsaparilla and wintergreen taste that we are all familiar with, something Dr. Pepper doesn't really taste like
Dr. Pepper is fruitier than either Coke or any root beer and I've never dectected any sasparilla or sassafras in it.
Okay but on the topic of soda beers personally I think birch beer is the best followed by sarsaparilla. Traditional root beer is still good on occasion though.
That would be because Dr. Pepper's original flavor is listed as "spicy cherry soda" or "spicy cherry cola" (I forget which, but cherry is always in the name).
You did 2 parts coke and 1 part root beer right? Cuz he did 2:1 not 1:1
Just tried it too.
Josh IS crazy.
OR maybe the brands different tastes in other regions is the problem.
The flavors I think are in there, in no particular order: cola, cherry, vanilla, birch root, spearmint, bergamot, citric acid, texas, anise, licorice, marshmallow, grapefruit, liver disaster, morning thunder, & sleepy time.
Did the math and this checks out. Def adds to 23, (Texas accounting for 9).
TX formula: barbecue sauce, gunmetal, fossil fuel, border wall, paper money, unread constitutions, Ted Cruz follicle oil, leather, & sazón
You're right about the Texas ingredient, and with that alone ends any conspiracy theories
@@Mdautkreix Too funny
Hahaha this comment was a rollercoaster 😂
@@ericestrada5133 Ponch? Is that you?🤪
Man...I'm now questioning everything you've said previously. That tastes NOTHING like Dr. Pepper
Sorry, Josh. I'm a 42 year old woman and my one true love is Dr Pepper. I tried this just to see...and its not even close.
That's probably because your brain has made such a dependence to this form of sugar and caffeine. That its kinda like low potency crack to a crack head. You could be given actually DP and told its this mixture and your brain would make you think there is a difference.
@@clutchbleach2057 sounds like you have no friends
It certainly doesn’t sound like they would be similar. I will have to test it though, just in case 😉
I don't drink soda anymore, 10 years off of caffeine. I tried this and no it doesn't work. the amount of fizz when combining has no flavor like Dr. pepper . It tastes like burnt sugar
@@clutchbleach2057 don’t worry about the guy who said it sounds like you have no friends, a lot of ppl genuinely hate when they see people who think things through instead of just going with whatever is the first thought that crossed your mind like they do-it reminds them of how intellectually lazy they are and they don’t like that because they want to believe they have above average intelligence and it forces to consider the possibility that maybe they don’t.
Cognitive dissonance isn’t a pleasant feeling, which is why clever folks don’t get along with everyone; only other clever ppl. Everyone thinks they’re clever, but clever ppl are actually relatively rare as a statistical necessity. If everyone had above average intelligence it wouldn’t be above average lol. Don’t sweat it though, the dipshits may not wanna hang around you but I promise they don’t hate it as much as you’ll hate being around them 😂. It’s all about quality not quantity, I’d rather have one friend with the cognitive bandwidth to follow a conversation than 1000 imbecile friends. If you just want company get a cat or a dog, they also can’t follow conversation but at least they’re cute and fluffy!
This video is making me reevaluate everything we believed about Josh’s palette.
I’ve tried this with like 4 different root beers and I still don’t see what people are talking about. They seriously taste nothing alike. 🤷♂️
These are the same people who claim root beer and Dr Pepper taste the same. I think they just don’t realize that sone people are taste blind like some people are color blind.
@@porcupineracer2 That is true and may be part of it. However, I think this guy just knows how to stir the pot and use the platform to drum up views.
What's it like to be a sucker?
Just zoomers or RUclips npc’s trying to get attention
@@porcupineracer2 maybe dr pepper is like wine. The more you drink it the more you start to notice the difference in flavour. People that drink a good amount of it may be the ones that feel like they're nothing alike.
It does taste really similar but Dr Pepper is a Spiced Cherry soda
"Dr Pepper was invented in 1885" "Coca Cola doesn't come out until 1886" you disproved your own theory 10 seconds in
Glad I'm not the only one that caught that...
Did you stop watching? Because he said “while Coca Cola wasn’t out there were other similar colas on the market.”
@@kermi1004 I can't really find any evidence for that. It seems generally agreed upon that the cola flavor was invented by Pemberton in 1886 and only adopted by other brands after that
He said the mix was cola, not coke specifically, i think he just used coke because it's the best tasting cola that you can find easily at any corner store
@@kermi1004 but there were no root beers that would have tasted or acted like A&w. Root beer in the 1800's was alcoholic. even when AW did come around 40 years later it had alcohol in it's cans for another 20 years.
Had them all in the fridge, tried it out of curiosity. Even got out a scale to make sure the ratio was exactly 2:1. In my opinion it's not the same, A&W comes through really strong. It's not a terrible mix, but not Dr Pepper.
Not to mention no prune in Coke or A&W
You needed a scale just for a 2:1 ratio?! Lol wow. What an idiot.
@@ThePrufessa to measure with accuracy to the milliliter it's by far the fastest and easiest method. Though judging by your comment you have no idea what to do in a kitchen or you're 12.
@@kornbread435 dude... To the millimeter? You didn't need to be THAT accurate for some damn soda mixing. You're acting like you're mixing chemicals or something.
I saved time and just used 2 cans of coke and one of A&W. 😅
Being a heavy Dr. Pepper addict, I tried this myself with exact measurements and I can say it is absolutely nothing like Dr. Pepper.. I laugh to myself that some think they taste the same. The artistry and complexity put into the Dr. Pepper recipe is simply unmatchable..
Same... I don't believe Corona with a shot of Disaronno tastes like Dr. Pepper.
@@acapulcogoldpablo8096it’s actually very similar, I’ve had disaronno with corona (or really any beer) and it’s pretty similar.
It’s definitely not the same definitely tastes kinda like Mr pib but Drpepper is wonderful and unique you can’t make that with other sodas
Right? It's like how everyone says bologna and chocolate milk tastes like cod. Trust me, it didnt.
you lost me at "artistry and complexity"
Glad I read the comments before running out and trying this
Now I *might believe it if they mixed Cherry coke...Dr. P has a pretty distinct cherry cola vibe to my pallet
I was just about to write this. You can def taste cherry in Dr.Pepper
And a slight bit of prune juice flavor
@@jonathanwamboldt6482 think Benzaldehyde!!
Fun fact: Dr. Pepper's original flavor is listed as "Spicy Cherry Soda/Cola" on most cans of original flavor.
@@jomon324 which is also why mr pibb also sold as a cherry soda
Mixing lemon and lime does NOT taste like Sprite. They lied to us!- Mitch Hedberg
There's more to it than that!
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You lost me when you said "I'm not crazy".
It’s weird. I personally think it taste nothing like Dr Pepper, but my sister thinks it’s an exact replica.
His eye blinks is faster than the video speech
I don’t think he drinks water he’s dehydrated hahaha
This man's blink count is higher than my grade
Would you say blink-182?
Your grade? Wym??
@@tiesthatbind5056 Like, grade. 100, 60, 27, what your grade is.
I forget that RUclips is filled with childreb
Wait how did I not notice till this comment? That’s crazy
When I was a kid and dad took us to McDonald’s he’d have us get him half Dr Pepper and half root beer. We called it dr beer, love those memories with my whole heart
So is this a thing everybody that likes drpepper stumbles upon cause I always did this and just replied to a different comment with 2 other people that do too.
@@dobber43 i guess I really don’t know though. My siblings and I would just mix every single soda together and go nuts in the play area.
@@DiamondSupplyC0 yes I'd just mix tons of stuff but that's how I figured out dr pepper and root beer was so good. I also remember getting "suicide" slushes at sonic where they'd mix all the slush flavors together.
your dad took you to mcdonalds to be his waitstaff haha 😂
Finally im not the only one! Dr beer is quality!
Josh, you gotta breath. You’re blinking like a madman.
He can't help it when he's lying.
Lmao too many sodas 😂
I do in fact work in a lab with an Ir spectrometer…now how do I tell my advisor that I’m putting Dr Pepper into the machine?
You don't :D
Just mention that it is an opportunity to get kids interested in the sciences by using a social platform and a tiktok conspiracy. The exposure Mythical Kitchen provides with its 1.8 million subscribers is better than any pamphlet could ever hope.
That is 1000000% the way to do free marketing for your company. Not a sponsor? Well for this episode you are!
@@misinformedmarti ...this is disturbingly true -_-
Say it's for science
My buddy used to make home made Dr peppers. He would take different sodas and mix them together. It was spot on. Just coke and root beer doesn't do it. You need cherry and vanilla and a couple other notes to get it right.
Love Dr. Pepper, but root beer literally makes me nauseous, so I'm skeptical.
Josh is like that server who offers root beer as an alternative when you ask if they have Dr Pepper.
As someone who likes to mix up the flavors at the soda fountain, it is not the same.
This can’t possibly be right since the primary flavor of Dr. Pepper is Cherry, and neither root beer or cola have that flavor.
Maybe cherry coke and root beer would be more accurate?
Sadly is False due to mixing rivals to make a sister to one. Coke needs to be nixed and this redone with A&W and Dr. Pepper's sister RC Cola
Prune juice....That's what Dr Pepper is....not cherry.
It's blackberry, not cherry.
@@NeolithGrey dr pepper was originally sold as the spicy cherry soda that tasted better hot
Dude is speaking Morse code with his eyes
😂😂😂
Little does he know, all brand drinks are under one umbrella company that rules them all🤣🤣🤣
Okay, who left Josh alone with the soda again? He just finished off a months supply that we bought yesterday for the entire office.
Then, take half root beer and half dr pepper and you got yourself a carousel cola... The conspiracy continues
So… 3 parts root beer 1 part coke
Okay I wish I was still talking to my ex because I have no idea what carousel cola is, but I love doing half root beer and half dr pepper as a beverage and my ex always made fun of me for it.
@@mrzoohasaninn good thing he’s an ex
@@mrzoohasaninn well... now we can talk, because i do the SAME THING!!!
@@Dewey_Boondye420 IT'S A DELIGHTFUL TREAT! And it's especially good when you're eating fried food! Cannot explain why but it's just a perfect combo!
If Josh goes missing, we know why.
Nope because math is false. A&W and Dr.Peppee are sister companies so for his cola and root beer theory to very true needs to nix Coke for true sister RC Cola
I’ve always been told Dr. Pepper is like a Disaronno soda (always told disaronno specifically not amaretto in general but maybe) because they’re both so cherry and almond forward, and Disaronno is already nearing the 23 flavors from the apricot kernel (where much of the cherry/almond flavors come from) and 17 fruits and herbs, or whatever it is
I think (i could be wrong) that this is the moment Josh lost his mind.
A&W root beer tastes astronomically better if you get it at the restaurant
Facts, I used to work at one
Night and day difference
I actually don’t like the restaurant version, at least not like the gallon or half gallon ones. It always seemed to have less carbonation to me… maybe it was just a shitty location but even out of the fountain it always seemed flatter to me.
No lies detected
This makes me question everything he has ever cooked.
Thats probably good. Most of those videos seem like jokes.
Thems be fighting words Josh. Dont mess with the bull.
john green needs to fact check this
I was convinced that the original Mountain Dew Game Fuel was just 1:1 Code Red and Livewire. It even came out the right color.
I'm still convinced that Baja Blast is regular Mountain Dew mixed with a tiny splash of Blue Powerade.
@@randytrashcan Absolutely trying this, thank you 😂
I'm still convinced that they need to bring back Sangrita Blast
@@randytrashcan I used to add Sprite (to make the carbonation level right) Powerade and mountain dew/mellow yellow? together at McDonald's for makeshift "Baja blast" it honestly tasted better I think.
Tell me you have a horribly underdeveloped palate without telling me you have a horribly underdeveloped palate.
If Dr Pepper has 12 botanicals and coke has 11… you simply can’t just add them and claim the 23 of Dr Pepper is those combined. Obviously they both will share some flavors initially.
@Logan Newman
Tell me you don't understand satire, without telling me you don't understand satire.
@@AntoKyuuketsuki What deeper message is this "satire" expressing?
@@AntoKyuuketsuki Don Quixote, Animal Farm, South Park. Those are all satire. This is just somebody being wrong about Dr. Pepper.
@@AntoKyuuketsuki bro come on you know this isn’t satire lmao what exactly is this video satirizing?
I never liked root beer. It has sarsaparilla in it which is also a key ingredient in black licorice. And black licorice is nasty. But I’ve always liked Dr. Pepper. Strange thing happened when I just drank Dr. Pepper by itself and not after eating. I noticed the sarsaparilla flavor, which led me here. Now I’m questioning all of my life decisions 😫
I don’t own an MS but I have access to one and I could probably see if we could allow a student to get a profile from each of the three. Wouldn’t be any time soon I think it would be harder than just extracting them though. So many compounds that might end up in a solvent but not another. Also tons of sugar. Very long column needed
If you could do it in parts, remove some known compounds then pass it through the column and do it again but remove some other parts and do it multiple times and then put all the data toghether
That's why it's called a multi-spectrometer it should be easy enough, when access is to it is gained, to pass coke through then root beer though it may not be A&W most likely it would have back then been what they call sassafras or sarsaparilla root beer, because that is the oldest *root beer* drink that was called a *"soft drink"* no alcohol all the way back to the early 1400s but who knows for sure, people have been making different kinds of drinks from seeds and roots and plants and flowers for along time. But I'd be willing to bet that it was sarsaparilla and not necessarily root beer as it is known today because most people haven't even heard of it before at least not since I was a kid drinking it but I can definitely believe coca cola syrup and sassafras would definitely taste like Dr Pepper. Because I always thought Dr. Pepper tasted familiar .
It’s called a Mass Spectrometer. Have over 25 years operating magnetic sector Gas Chromatography Mass Spec, low resolution mass spec, triple quadrupole mass spec and negative ion electron impact mass spec.
You would have to do a number of mass spec analysis using both volatile and semi-volatile methodologies. See EPA methods 8260 and 8270
@@vernondaniels6506 it’s a mass spec not a multi spec. It wouldn’t be particularly easy due to the number of compounds present
@@631Rogers that’s what I thought. I’m hoping a college student might be interested in looking into this for a summer project. Not my job and i don’t have time to do it but a student could get a nice poster out of it
One think that has always baffled me:
When you’re in a restaurant and you ask if they have Dr Pepper and they say:
“No but we have root beer”
Is that a real thing that happens?
@@ffwast it has happened to me many times, wich makes it even stranger. I’ve never understood why so many people associate DP with root beer
They're like here is the other other, enjoy!
Yeah that is weird, since Dr. Pepper’s rival is actually Mr. Pibb
Obviously they want to poison you.
The X-Files theme, Josh saying "the truth is out there"... this video honestly made the X-Files fan in me so happy.
I loved it too, it's my favourite series of all time! 🥰😀👽🛸💚
Because "Pharmacist Pepper" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I have a conspiracy theory that Josh is a robot because that's definitely not what that tastes like. Dr. Pepper is quite fruity and some of its major notes are plum and vanilla.
Dr. pepper is cherry, amaretto, and plum, with a bit of ginger.
@@Dead_Goat What's funny is, the cherry and amaretto notes you detect might be one and the same flavor component - almond extract smells and tastes like maraschino cherries, and is often used as cherry flavoring. That being said, that's definitely one of the flavors that comes through fairly strong for me!
According to Dr. Pepper the 23 flavors are cola, cherry, licorice, amaretto (almond, vanilla, blackberry, apricot, blackberry, caramel, pepper, anise, sarsaparilla, ginger, molasses, lemon, plum, orange, nutmeg, cardamon, all spice, coriander juniper, birch and prickly ash.
@@Kenzalina_ It seems a bit presumptuous for any spice to be called ALL spice. 🙃
@@Primalxbeast That’s funny! I have always thought the same thing. It’s common in Scandinavian and Irish recipes so I always assumed that all spice must have been the only spice they had access to. 🤣
"The 23 flavors are cola, cherry, licorice, amaretto, vanilla, blackberry, apricot, blackberry, caramel, pepper, anise, sarsaparilla, ginger, molasses, lemon, plum, orange, nutmeg, cardamon, all spice, coriander, juniper, birch and prickly ash." Root Beer has similar botanicals but differs in the ingredients, as does coca cola. When you mix two spiced brown sodas, it will taste like a spiced brown soda, but to imply any similarity beyond that doesn't really check out for me, since I hate the flavor of root beer, and like the flavor of Dr. Pepper. I also don't think the 2/1 coke root beer mix tastes like Dr. Pepper.
you said blackberry twice
"sarsaparilla" there's where he's getting his idea for it being root beer - Dr Pepper and most Root Beers probably use the same sarsaparilla substitute flavorings to get that old timey flavor (since I know they don't use actual sarsaparilla these days). But its still going to be lacking a lot of other flavors. Adding sarsaparilla flavor to coke does not a dr pepper make.
but you still listed 22 other flavors so we good
My question is then...how do cherry, cherry vanilla, and Dr Pepper with cream soda still claim to be 23 flavors?
You even edited the post and still got blackberry twice
Fun Fact : Moxie came out in 1876, which is a decade before Coke. It is still around, and enjoyed by many of us Mainers. They even made a version of it in the popular video game Fallout 4- in the dlc Far Harbor. So neither are the oldest soda around.
@Sheldon Lavway Cumberland County Representing!!!
Bro blinked 1000 times😂
I was at work the other day and we had a half used can of root beer for a float, so I mixed it with my Coca-Cola and it did not taste like Dr Pepper to me
“I’m not crazy.”
Me: already seeing josh doing the charlie day conspiracy board meme
This sounds like something John Green,Dr. Pepper aficionado,should test.
He's a Diet Dr Pepper aficionado. Entirely different.
@@ArdisMeade I stand corrected.
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Someone call food theory
There's a trick I learned a long time ago when customers really want ginger ale and you don't have any to serve you can give them Sprite with a squirt of coke. This was usually reserved for difficult customers and was an easy way to make them happy
Its true as a former bartened I used to do that all the time.
That is well known with bartenders, however you are supposed to add a dash of bitters as well, that's what gives it the traditional bitter bite of ginger
He sounds like he did this after testing a couple dozen cups of all three sodas, lol
I already knew this is wrong because the main flavor in Dr. P is Cherry
Exactly. It's a Spiced Cherry drink.
@@RabbitsInBlack does no one have a clue that the main part of dr.p to get that spiced cherry even tho that not what i taste is plum. it plum cola lol
Follow up: I was right, this doesn't work, don't waste your money trying it.
Bro gottem ikea glasses
John Green needs to confirm if this is true. Get the vlogbrothers!
Or, you know, you could just go to any 7-11 or supermarket, cough up the $3, and try this yourself….
@@eyespy3001 I'm not too big a fan of soda. The intent is to get John Green's reaction since he is an avid consumer of Diet Dr. Pepper.
I agree we need to get John on this. Not to confirm it, or even that we need it denied. Honestly if I pour Dr Pepper over ICE that has touched A&W, it no longer tastes like Dr Pepper. But we all just loved John's reactions in his taste test and we want to see his look of puzzlement, pity, and irrational rage, all at once.
Friendly reminder Josh likes PILK...
…PILK?
@@DCsasquatch Pepsi and milk?
Nothing wrong with pilk. It's essentially a spinoff of the root beer float experience.
@@KidPrarchord95 First I've heard of it, and I am reflexively repulsed. Why would someone do this
@@empirion502 Because it tastes good.
I love these shorts for when I only want to procrastinate a little bit.
I don't think this comment is getting the love and attention it deserves :)
I always thought Dr Pepper just tasted like cherry coke 💀
Do you even have taste buds? That’s a bizarre take.
I first thought cherry coke tasted like Dr Pepper until I tried cherry coke again months later, they are distinct, the only similarity is of course is some cherry flavor
Need to get this video in front of John Green
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My conspiracy theory is that Dr. Pepper and Root Beer makes Mr. Pibb
John green needs to see this and test this
In a similar vein, a lot of restaurants will mix coke and sprite for “ginger ale” if they don’t have it.
Someone consult John on this one
John Green would be the only person I trust
There's no difference between this man and a bag of hammers.
I beg to differ. Hammers are useful.
The bag of hammers is looking to nail something.
My family and I would consider myself a dr. Pepper addict. I can tell the difference between regular, diet, 10, and zero. I’m gonna have to put this to the test but I have some serious doubts
Any updates?
@@coop4476 not yet. Haven’t had time to get to the store.
I would like an update when you have one
Dr Pepper is part prune juice
Sounds like a great episode of GMM for a blind taste test.
Josh I love you but I will slap you for the blasphemy you are spreading on the internet. Dr. Pepper is a gift from the gods and in no way is mixture of other sodas.
Amen
At the Dr. Pepper bottling plant and museum in Dublin, Texas(this was years ago), the story was the Dr. Pepper was a suicide of several different sodas at a fountain where he worked and later he replicated that flavor himself. This is perhaps why I found this unremarkable coming from you, because I already believe it to be true.
Not a Dr Pepper bottling company now. Sadly, They can’t make or bottle Dr Pepper in Dublin, Texas anymore. Snapple Dr Pepper threatened to sue them. All Dr Pepper is a sarsaparilla.
No… just… no… I can’t deal with this right now
Absolute mood tbh. Hope your day's going better!
Idk about that, Dr. Pepper has a gross cherry flavor and I don’t think mixing a sarsaparilla and cinnamon orange drink can mix to make cherry
I’m an analytical chemist!!! 🙌🏻🤓 And run multiple spectrometers… what are we testing for? 😜
Josh, I'm sorry, but you're wrong. I'm another Josh. And we're all crazy.
this is true
So I once did work for a guy who used to work for Doctor Pepper, and I learned a couple interesting facts. At the time (roughly 2012) it was the most highly carbonated major soft drink. He also said the original main flavoring was prune juice. While he believes it's been modified over time, an imitation prune juice was his best guess as to what the main flavoring they are using now is
the main flavoring is cherry...
-dr pepper dealer
Insert Ingredient (s) Here:
@@toxicvillain bum fluff
I also heard somewhere that the main flavoring is or was prune juice. Seems like I may have heard that years ago when Paul Harvey told the story about how Dr. Pepper was created.
The main flavor when it was first created was the cherry syrup used at the soda fountain, not prune juice.
As mentioned in an episode of "The A-Team" from 1983 entitled "Pros and Cons," Dr. Pepper was a psychologist who graduated from LSU.
let's add "analyze with your laboratory spectrometer" to the "like/comment/subscribe" tag at the end of videos
Does brand matter? Commonly unknown fact. Nearly all root beers (at least in America) are caffeine free, but not Barq's brand. Except diet Barq's root beer, which like nearly all other versions of root beer, is caffeine free
Kinda the same with orange soda. Sunkist is the only caffinated orange soda as far as I've seen
Where do you find Barq's these days? None of my local stores carry it :(
@@Brandyalla It's bottled and distributed by Coca-Cola, so you can generally find it along side other coke products, I even frequently see it in vending machines and self serve fountains around where live.
@@barethor5869 Yeah, that's what you would assume, but not in my area. Coke products galore, but no Barq's
Barq's root beer smells and tastes like tobacco chewers spit to me. It's gross is what I'm saying. I love A&W root beer so don't think I'm a root beer hater....just barq's...
We need a flamin hot cheeto gogurt snack smash
I hate everything about this idea, but what I hate most is that I completely agree with you.
It's kinda grotesque but i bet Josh would shluurp it down anyway
Yuck
why would you type such a thing????
It just so happens I have coke and a&w and this did not work! Lmao
That’s pretty interesting considering Dr p is a “spicy cherry” flavor just like pibb extra is
Thissssss
Mr pibb was better than pibb xtra
@@jimdandy3033 you are correct. Pibb Xtra feels watered down
@@ZakBaganslover4ever9
It's like it's flat
Dr Pepper is part prune juice
Huh. If this is true, that explains why I like Dr. Pepper the most: it's a combo of my second and fourth favorite sodas (not including flavor combo sodas; that's a different list).
Josh is the man that needs a recreational spectrometer
Let’s play a game, 1 drink every time this dudes blinks
Difficulty level: IMPOSSIBLE