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> >We have something in common; I like Dr. Pepper. I drink a bottle two  
> to four times a month back home, although here, rarely. Nice flavor.

If this has never come up before, who can remember??  Dr Pepper, the actual 
Doctor, had his practice right here in Bristol, Tennessee.

Do they still have the ten-two-and-four thing on the logo?  Dr. C.T. Pepper 
was a health advocate and at his practice/drug store on State Street (the 
main 
street of Bristol whose east bound lane is in Tennessee and west bound lane 
is 
in Virginia, hence State Street) was famous for a huge carboy of water he had 
hauled in from Greene Co. (where Jeanne lives) every few days.  He advocated 
flushing the system with water and had a 20 oz. beaker he filled and drained 
three times a day at 10, 2, and 4.  

In the 1870's he closed the drug store and moved a few miles up the road to 
Rual Retreat, Va. where he opened a new drug store.  There he formulated Dr 
Pepper for his soda fountain.  His very young daughter was enamored with an 
employee, one Charles Alderton, who stole the formula and repaired to Waco 
Texas in 
1885 where he claimed it to be his own.

To this day Dr Pepper Co.  (Dr Pepper/Snapple) does not officially 
acknowledge the actual origin of the soft drink.  Buch of low lives! Although 
on several 
other unofficial websites at least the head of Dr Pepper correctly attributes 
the name to the original C.T. Pepper of Rural Retreat.

James