At the end of my tour of the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, I stopped in at the soda shop across the courtyard, facing what was once the old loading docks of the bottling operation and is now the main entry to the museum. Admission gains you a free soda, but only the "classic" flavors are listed as free on the menu. Admission currently gets you $1 off the cost of a Dr Pepper ice cream float, or a more exotic flavor. They have a real soda fountain for the soda jerks working there to mix your drinks from. I chose to get a flavor I could not get in a bottle or can at the store, called Dr Pepper Dark Berry, which they assured me was not the same as the canned Dr Pepper Blackberry currently available in some grocery stores as well as in 12-packs in the museum soda shop.
Taking a good draw from the straw, I can still taste the "Dr Pepper-iness" but it has a sort of blend of black berries and blackcurrants. I wonder if this drink could be approximated at home by mixing some Dr Pepper and Ribena? They tell me this flavor is only offered seasonally, but personally I think they'd be smart to try bottling and selling it permanently in stores. It's a much better flavor than their strawberries and cream, which is already found in many grocery stores.
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