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I am so glad you mentioned the Moon Pie. As a lad in Roanoke in the
early fifties, I would visit my grandmother, who lived about half a
mile from my home to watch the Virginian Pacifics pull that little VGN
Passenger train into or out of Roanoke. Almost always when I woke up
at her home, there would be 11 cents on the dresser in my bedroom.
This would buy me an RC for 6 cents and Moon pie for a nickel at a
local "restaurant" (we didn't have 7-11s or convenient marts back
then). I had told that story so much that at my Grandmother's Funeral
several years ago, our minister told it for me....
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Skip Salmon<br>---- NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org> wrote:<br><br>=============<br>Sam,
dontcha know you gotta have a Moon Pie to go with those R-oh-C
Cokecolas?<br><br>EdKing<br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: NW
Mailing List<br>To: NW Mailing List<br>Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009
8:38 PM<br>Subject: Re: Dr. Pepper's origins?<br><br><br>I know I'm a
bit late joining this discussion.<br><br>Concerning the popularity of
Dr. Pepper in Roanoke in the 50's, I remember reading in the Roanoke
Times a couple of years ago when the big Dr. Pepper sign downtown was
being renovated that Dr. Pepper's PR folks said that the company
(which I think is owned by Pepsi now) was glad to help fund the
restoration because Roanoke is still the city/area with the highest DP
consumption per capita. I know I do my part, at least with the diet
version which tastes remarkably like the real thing, IMH0.<br><br>Also
concerning Dr. Pepper being a Southern thing until recent decades, I
remember well my Long Island cousins visiting my family in Farmville
in the 50's and being tickled to discover a drink with that funny
name. Of course, I and my sibs loved to visit New York and watch the
reaction whenever we stopped at a gas station (there were no
"convenience stores" in those days) and asked for a Dr. Pepper.<br><br>Concerning
Royal Crown Cola, that was the Wilson Nehi Bottling Company's cola
drink, so I would guess wherever you found Nehi you found RC and vice
versa. In later years, RC was bottled by the Royal Crown Bottling
Company, if my memory serves me correctly. I don't know if Nehi
changed the name of the company or if RC was spun off to go national.
I think Royal Crown Cola has been available continuously, but until
recently I hadn't seen Nehi sodas for 20 or 30 years. I assumed the
brand went defunct.<br><br>But, in January 2008 I was in Lansing,
NC--yep, the same village that's on the Virginia Creeper Trail--and
found the reincarnated Nehi sodas in the local grocery store! I was so
elated I bought two, a grape and an orange. The bottles say "ORIGINAL
NEHI" "The Tradition of Taste Since 1924." The bottles also say
"BOTTLED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF DR PEPPER/SEVEN UP, INC, PLANO TX...."
I didn't keep the caps, but I'm sure they said that the drinks were
bottled in West Jefferson, NC! This really took me back because when I
was growing up Nehi--and Coca-Cola as well--had a bottling plant in
every small town or at least every town I visited in southern
Virginia. The uncle of one of my friends worked at the one in
Farmville (I think it's an auto parts store now) and I got to visit
often. It was almost magical to watch those bottles marching along
single-file and getting shot full of those beautiful colored liquids.
And I always got strawberry.<br><br>I have since found the "new"
Nehi's here in Roanoke. The new bottles are attractive but it would be
nice if they went back to the old Nehi bottles that I remember as
having a king of woven texture raised on the glass. Oh well, I'll take
what I can get.<br><br>Sam Putney<br><br><br>----- Original Message
-----<br>From: NW Mailing List<br>To: 'NW Mailing List'<br>Sent:
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 4:53 PM<br>Subject: RE: Dr. Pepper's origins?<br><br><br>We
need not forget RC (Royal Crown) Cola..especially if accompanied by a
Moon Pie. Any true Southerner will understand!<br><br><br><br>I have
many Wythe County ancestors going back to the Revolution so I like to
believe it was in Rural Retreat. I well remember, as a child, my
paternal Grandmother and Great-aunts (from Draper in Pulaski County)
telling me that Dr. Pepper was invented in Rural Retreat.<br><br><br><br>What
is the true story of Dr PepperÔ<br><br>There are a few different
versions of how this beverage was conceived and named.<br><br>From the
Wythe County Bicentennial Book authored by Mary Kegley:<br><br>There
are varying stories, but most accounts agree that the name was given
to honor Dr. Charles T. Pepper who was said to have concocted the
drink. His clerk at the store, Wade Morrison later went to Waco, Texas
where he reproduced the drink naming it Dr. Pepper. Some say Morrison
created the drink in Texas. After Morrison became the owner of the
drug store in Texas, Charles C. Alderton of New York was hired to
handle the soda fountain and mixed fruit flavors, finally blending the
favorite drink now so popular. Robert Sherman Lazenby (1867-1941)
president of DR. Pepper Company for many years is also credited with
perfecting the flavor with a blend of 23 fruit flavors. The drink was
probably introduced to the public on a regular basis about 1885, was
first bottled in 1886. In 1888 it was bottled in Waco, TX by Artesian
Manufacturing and Bottling Company.<br><br>Dr. Charles T. Pepper also
had a son, Louis or Louie, an optometrist who was also known as Dr.
Pepper. He worked part time in his father's drug store and also
claimed to have developed the formula for the drink.<br><br>Another
story is that Morrison had romantic aspirations on Dr. Pepper's
daughter. Dr. Pepper was not in favor with the match and that is why
Morrison left for Texas. This story is probably not true because
within the time frame, Dr. Pepper's daughter would only have been
around 5 at the time Morrison left.<br><br><br><br>Ed Painter -
Narrows, Va currently living in Russellville, AR.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>From:
nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org
[mailto:nw-mailing-list-bounces@nwhs.org] On Behalf Of NW Mailing List<br>Sent:
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:07 AM<br>To: nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org<br>Subject:
Re: Dr. Pepper's origins?<br><br><br><br>I recall Dr. Pepper as being
"only a Southern pop" like Nehi. Dr. Pepper's screen-door icon and
roadside signs depicted a clock showing the times to take a a Dr.
Pepper were 10, 2 and 4. I lived in Cleveland, but spent all my
summers in Pulaski County, VA - both Nehi and Dr. Pepper were special
summertime treats for me; they never showed up in Cleveland.<br><br><br><br>John
Carnahan<br><br>Columbus, OH<br><br><br><br>PS: My Wythe County (Va.)
uncle always told me that Rural Retreat was the cabbage-and-sauerkraut
capital of the world, but I don't recall his mentioning Dr. Pepper.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>________________________________________<br>NW-Mailing-List@nwhs.org<br>To
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