max miller of History of tasting created “Hot Dr. Pepper” using a 1960s recipe. It basically contains heated Dr. Pepper soda and lemon.
Everyone loves hot drinks, cocoa, mulled wine, and hot Dr. Pepper during the holiday season. Yes, in the late 1960s, the holiday drink of choice was hot Dr. Pepper, this time in “History of Drinking.”
As with previous videos, Miller also looked into the history of the iconic soda and why someone came up with the idea of serving it hot.
Footz Clements started working for Dr. Pepper in 1942 and eventually became CEO and chairman of the board, but when he was a sales executive in the late ’60s, he spent summers working with the friendly Pepper Upper. I noticed that sales were great. As the temperature plummeted along with the temperature, the marketing department came up with an amazing idea: what would happen if cold drinks were hot? This is how Hot Dr. Pepper was born.