I started working on today’s Bottle Cap painting this past Friday at Craft Night, but I was missing its key components. Today I swung by Té House of Tea to pick up these:
Tom and I forced ourselves to drink their Imperial sugary goodness. Then I was able to finish my Day 28 creative project.
“Rhonda and Meesh hang out at the 10-2-4 Club”
mixed media on 8×10-inch stretched canvas
Bottle Caps and Friends series
ETA: Also added to Numbers Photo Series as No. 2.
Love it! And thanks for the shoutout!
I’m a Pepper because of Rhonda.
Thank you! And you’re welcome. So now I know: Rhonda’s the Enabler.
Well, I AM evil, ya know.
Yes.
I like it.
And I love Dr Pepper!
Thanks! There’s always a cold Dr. Pepper at The Compound.
Random Trivia: There’s no “.” in Dr Pepper. That’s why I tend to call it “Durr Pepper.” The more you know.
Yeah, I always forget that.
Holy cow! Dr Pepper in glass bottles!
Tasty, too!
Ya know, as much of a Pepper as I am, I’ve never had the Dublin Dr Pepper. I should try it sometime.
It’s time.
Dr Pepper I know, but what is Imperial sugar. Does it give you a “royal” sugar high?
Love the painting.
Imperial Sugar started from a plantation in the mid 1800s right next door to Houston in Sugar Land, Texas. Snapple bottles and distributes Dr Pepper using a corn syrup recipe. But the original Dr Pepper plant in Dublin, Texas, still exists, still bottles, and now offers the drink with pure cane sugar made by Imperial (within a small distribution area). Snapple’s trying to stop them, but they’d best beware; nobody’s going to like a big guy picking on the original plant that helped make them successful.
From what I’ve read, Dr Pepper (the company) doesn’t have a problem with the Dublin plant using Imperial pure cane sugar. The issue is that, allegedly, the Dublin plant is breaking the terms of its contract by distributing beyond its contracted, limited region, and that infringes upon other bottling franchises within the infringed upon regions.
I didn’t mean to imply the issue was the use of sugar. I was just trying to answer Rob’s question about what Imperial Sugar is.
You are right. The lawsuit is based on distribution area, though a previously tolerated breach of logo is being brought into it as well.
Love the painting.
Thanks!