3 points

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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41 points

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.

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17 points

Dur pepper to me.

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7 points

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.

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3 points

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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6 points

To Europeans it tastes like mouthwash

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

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15 points

Democratic Republic (of) Pepper.

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4 points

It was made for me! This is my soda!

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4 points

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”.

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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.

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20 points

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.

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46 points

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

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3 points

You wouldn’t download a brand

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34 points

You can’t deadname a brand

I sure can try with Twitter (derogatory)

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7 points

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.

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