Funnily enough I picked Dr. Pepper as a guy because I think “Doctor hocking Miracle Tonic” and I think of late 1800s “doctor” do sleazy shit
He just gotta have a curly moustache
He had more of a Ulysses S. Grant looking beard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper
He wasn’t actually involved with the drink.
Yeah, she’s probably so done with people going “Doctor Pepper? Don’t you mean nurse?”.
I always thought of it as a vegetable.
I thought it was a spice.
Nah. Dr. Pepper is from the 1800s. I don’t think women were allowed to be doctors back then, so Dr. Pepper being male is a fair assumption.
For some reason I imagine dr pepper looking like a slightly bigger louis armstrong wearing a red t shirt standing by a kroger and I do not have the faintest idea why
I imagine him looking like the Pringles guy
I mean, it was made by two guys, one of whom may have named it after Dr. Charles T. Pepper. The guy was a real person.
Dr. Pepper is an inanimate soft drink, there is no gender, but the one you assign to it.
Dr. Marijuana Pepsi, on the other hand, is a woman.
Based reference
omg non biney soder
Unless you speak a tongue with gendered objects, for me all soft drinks are female.
Look at you! You got the joke!
Yeah this thread is full of people not getting a simple joke…
I never considered Dr Pepper as a person because they made a big deal about how it doesn’t have a period in the name, like an actual doctor title would. So it’s always just been a brand name to me.
But I’m a bit neurotic about nitpicky details like that.
Dur pepper to me.
Democratic Republic (of) Pepper.
Dr Pepper was designed to taste like what a soda fountain smells like, a mix of flavors like when you made “swamp water” as a kid.
So it’s “Dur Pepper’s Monster” to me.To Europeans it tastes like mouthwash
It’s not selling very well I don’t think
I thought that was Root Beer?
I’m German and I like both… Root beer is really difficult to get, though.
Europeans drink mouthwash?!!
TIL…
My mom told me Dr. Pepper was made from prune juice, which I guess is party true about the original formula.
I haven’t looked in a while but in 2020, prune juice was still in the mandatory ingredients list. It’s mainly corn syrup and water, but prune juice is involved, I think
It was made for me! This is my soda!
“I cannot operate on this soft drink, he’s my son”
I never considered Dr. Pepper as a person
I used to think that was just the name of whoever invented it until I got interested enough to see that wasn’t the case. It was made by some dude name Chuck. Wasn’t even a doctor!
This meme reminded me of this sketch.
you guys should show some respect that doctors a war hero.
I mean, they did have an entire ad campaign that was just misogyny a while back. Although then again maybe she was working through some shit.
I don’t keep up with ad campaigns, what?
Don’t read the comments
Of course they’re a guy. Otherwise it’d be Drs. Pepper. /s
Docsses Pepper?
Doctoress. Didn’t realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it’s awesome.
It does kind of sound cool but I thought the current trend was to move away from needlessly gendered language, especially with how in English a lot of feminine nouns are intentionally made to sound like a diminutive form of the masculine version
Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.
