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[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 79 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

He just gotta have a curly moustache

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 53 points 1 week ago

Of course they're a guy. Otherwise it'd be Drs. Pepper. ~/s~

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago
[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago

Doctoress. Didn't realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it's awesome.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Xyre@lemmus.org 3 points 1 week ago

Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn't feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.

[-] SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 45 points 1 week ago

You can't misgender a brand. You can't deadname a brand. You can't befriend a brand.

[-] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago

You can't deadname a brand

I sure can try with Twitter (derogatory)

[-] shikogo@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

I like Hank Green''s version. X is the brand. Twitter is the people on it. You can buy the company, but you can't buy Twitter.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

You wouldn't download a brand

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago
[-] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago

Democratic Republic (of) Pepper.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

To Europeans it tastes like mouthwash

It's not selling very well I don't think

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I thought that was Root Beer?

[-] shikogo@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago

I'm German and I like both... Root beer is really difficult to get, though.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

My mom told me Dr. Pepper was made from prune juice, which I guess is party true about the original formula.

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[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It was made for me! This is my soda!

[-] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I don't keep up with ad campaigns, what?

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[-] 10_0@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Dr. Pepper is an inanimate soft drink, there is no gender, but the one you assign to it.

[-] lousyd@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 week ago
[-] 10_0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Based reference

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Look at you! You got the joke!

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...or that Dr. Pepper's degree might be in herpetology or Renaissance literature.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago

The idea of a female herpetologist releasing a soft drink is amazing

buy lizard piss today, crisp and refreshing!!

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper

His degree was in medicine, no one can prove why the drink may have been named for him, as he wasn't involved in the creation of it

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper

[-] rothaine@beehaw.org 20 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I never considered Dr. Pepper as a person

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

Dr Pepper , what ever their gender, is a quack.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not sure that he was. He wasn't involved in making the drink, and no one is certain why one of the creatirs seems to have had the drink named after him, but Dr. Charles T. Pepper was a real person and an actual medical doctor.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

I have an excuse though. Doctor is closer to doutor (male doctor) than doutora (female doctor)

[-] RidderSport@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna steal this excuse and apply it to German (Doktor/Doktorin)

[-] Eww@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

She’s the bread winner; he sits at home, plays Xbox, and smokes weed all day

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[-] emerald@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago

"I cannot operate on this soft drink, he's my son"

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This meme reminded me of this sketch.

Trolls these days.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, she's probably so done with people going "Doctor Pepper? Don't you mean nurse?".

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I always thought of it as a vegetable.

I thought it was a spice.

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago

It does not make you a bad person to correctly interpret what someone means.

When your racist uncle complains about “thugs”, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that he means black people.

When you see what you know to be a very old brand, it doesn’t make you a bad person to infer that “doctor”, to the brand-makers, certainly meant “male doctor”.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

I have to admit the Ferguson Unrest of 2014 and the rhetoric about Michael Brown being a thug really changed my mind about Batman, for whom even his games highlight mobs ( mobiles or game artifacts that move) as thugs. And this led to Garth Ennis' observation that Batman is a billionaire aristocrat who beats up poor people

Then again Supergenius Reed Richards could never cure HIV and T'Challa / Black Panther, King of Wakanda and captain of the vibranium industry can't ever do enough to elevate non-whites in the US and in industrialized nations. I digress.

Getting back to Batman, I wonder if the white thugs Batman usually preyed on were Italians and Irish, who had to spend a century in the barrel before they were given white privilege.

[-] Oisteink@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Only ever herd about pepper as a female name, but looking it up it seems unisex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_(name)

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