Dublin Dr Pepper

Dublin Dr Pepper followed the original recipe, using cane sugar as the sweetener as opposed to newer high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

[2] As the soft drink's first independently owned bottler, owner Sam Houston Prim was given first choice of franchises when franchising of Dr Pepper started in 1925 and, instead of a larger area, chose to formalize an existing, smaller territory, which has remained unchanged.

Since the 1990s, it has outsourced most of its production to Temple Bottling Company, a larger independent Dr Pepper bottler in Texas about 110 miles to the southeast.

However, the owner of Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Company refused to switch sweeteners, and so it remained one of few bottlers in the U.S. to continue using cane sugar year round.

In addition to Dr Pepper products, the Dublin plant also produced Sun Crest Orange, Triple XXX root beer, and NuGrape in 9-10 ounce returnable bottles.

Each year, as many as 80,000 visitors flocked to Dublin, drawn to the antiquated bottling plant and its old-fashioned soda.

[10] Some variants, in place of DDP, were marked with a reference to the Bible verse Matthew 5:44,[10] a quotation of words spoken by Jesus Christ as part of the Sermon on the Mount: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;[11]The Dublin Bottling Works insisted that the product was not simply a "knock-off" Dublin Dr Pepper.

[10] Nevertheless, the Dr Pepper Snapple Group gave the Dublin Bottling Works a warning, reminding the company to honor their contractual agreement following the lawsuit.

], the Dublin Bottling Works continues to produce various other sugar-sweetened soda products, sold both locally and online.