is that a lawful order @beschizza?
AM I BEING DETAINED?
Edit: In all seriousness don’t do this with diet soda, it’s my understanding the artificial sweeteners aren’t meant to be heated?
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looks like it’s boiling in the commercial… My guess is it really doesnt matter as long as youre not cooking it enough to burn it (is that even possible? probably right? coffee that is left heating too long gets burnt tasting)
I am told that milk + Moxie is a popular drink in northern New Hampshire.
The New Hamsters I know deny it and blame Mainers for drinking it that way.
Mainers deny it and say only backwoods Vermonters do that.
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I can’t speak from personal experience, but Wikipedia states:
Moxie is flavored with gentian root extract, an extremely bitter substance commonly used in herbal medicine. It originated around 1876 as a patent medicine called “Moxie Nerve Food”.
They had me at “Nerve Food.”
Anyone here ever washed down their psilocybin mushrooms with a Moxie chaser? I know I haven’t, but hey —Nerve Food!
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Let’s be honest…it’s Maine, NH, and Vermont we are talking about…they are all weird ass hicks up there.
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I now know the secret to Dick Clark’s youthful appearance and long life: he was a lizard person.
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Fair enough. I still wouldn’t boil it long enough to reduce it. That is altering it too much I think.
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I guess we now know the answer to “what’s the worst that could happen?”
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That’s why I couldn’t drink ginger ale for years (and still don’t care much for 7-Up or Sprite), because it tasted like being ill.
…and/or slapped with a “French Roast” placard
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Now I have my plans for father’s day!
I’m going to go ahead and judge that.
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Serving boiled Dr. Pepper from a punchbowl has to be against some portion of the Geneva Convention, surely. There’s a whole section on chemical warfare…
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I’ve never understood Dr. Pepper. The flavour is bizarre; clearly it’s acquired. I can’t imagine heating it up would improve things.
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Oops it looks like my original reply was in another window so I just made a dumb joke!
Here’s the rest:
I have to wonder if @beschizza was making an intentional reference to a classic meme (which IIRC I first saw the first iteration of in the late 90s)
never stop posting rob!
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How about putting the bottles in a water bath? May be explosive and messy but may stay more carbonated.
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I was thinking wrapped in an electric heating pad set to low or medium. They don’t get too hot, since they’re designed to be safe to use on the human body. Depending on the type of pad you may have more or less control over the exact temperature.
Alternately, could an immersion circulator maintain a temperature warm enough to heat the bottles but not hot enough to melt them? Or could you dump the soda into a container and use the circulator to warm the liquid directly?
A third alternative would be to brew your own warm “Dr. Pepper” using a SodaStream machine on a container of warm water and flavoring it with the appropriate syrup.
I’ll just leave this here.
during the 60s in the christmas/new year’s season, i remember seeing several 30 second tv commercials either extolling the virtues of hot dr. pepper with lemon or concluding a 1 minute ad with a blip saying not to forget how great it is hot with lemon. i remember several holiday parties at the time hosted by one of the other of my older relatives where a pitcher of dr. pepper sat on a hotplate alongside punch cups and a plate of lemon wedges. i never got into it, but it really was a thing.
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Cold or hot, Dr. Pepper has nothing on Cuke. Heaven in a can.
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