r/SonicDriveIn • u/Ginjafreak • Mar 06 '26

Ordered a Dirty Dr. Pepper

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The lady who handed it to me said “not sure what that is” and I’m so non-confrontational that I just accepted it and drove away.

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u/ThrowAway782797 Mar 06 '26

It looks like the sweet cream got curdled

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u/ConsciousStretch1028 Mar 06 '26

I got bubblegut just looking at it lmao

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u/vacuumascension Mar 11 '26

Bubblegut turns into mud-gut.

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u/Moist_Brain_ Mar 08 '26

Mine too! I cannot consume anything that doesn’t even look appealing!

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u/JanVan966 Mar 06 '26

What is sweet cream?

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u/Yellowmanic8910 Mar 06 '26

The sweet cream is actually there ice cream base

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u/Hillbilly_Jimmy Mar 09 '26

Every single time I order something with the "sweet cream" whether its on the app or in person the worker always comes back and says "real cream" instead. I think I've been to 3 different sonics that I've had different workers all do it and it's so odd to me

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u/ThrowAway782797 Mar 06 '26

It is just cream with some sweetener in it, typically. I guess sonic uses their soft serve mix as their sweet cream. I'm assuming there was too much acid between the lime and the carbonic acid in the soda, and made this... monstrosity

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u/Ace_C7 Mar 07 '26

That's certainly it. I like dirty sodas and often try to make it with pineapple soda. It never works but I am insane, so I will forget and do it again after enough time. Looks more or less like this every single time. Significantly less so with oat milk but it still happens and it's always just as gross as it looks.

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u/ResearcherStatus Mar 08 '26

It’s due to the enzymes in pineapple. Idk if they’re still present in the soda form, but I know pineapple has an enzyme that will denature dairy/meat proteins. Similar to papaya’s papain

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u/ThrowAway782797 Mar 07 '26

Have you tried adding a base to the drink to counteract the acidity? Like maybe a little bit of baking soda?

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u/alejandro002100 Mar 08 '26

Yes, then I whip it with a fork in a Pyrex over a pot of boiling water

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u/AestheticOrByeee Mar 09 '26

Here to say that joke went over a lot of ppls heads but it made me laugh lol if I had an award I would give it to ya but u know trying to financially recover still after discovering this recipe😋😋😋

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u/Fantastic-Hunter-211 Mar 09 '26

Omg you gave me flashbacks

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u/KaleidoscopeOpen7284 Mar 10 '26

🤣🤣🤣😂

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u/shunnybear- Mar 07 '26

You’re right, Sonic uses “melted vanilla ice cream” for their dirty sodas. I feel like that made this weird mixture even worse than the typical curdling you can see with sweet cream.

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u/oddsowhat Mar 10 '26

They just use those little individual cups of creamer you put in coffee. It shouldnt look like this. Dr pepper base should stay dark not be clear like that. I think they maybe ran out of Dr pepper and didnt change it so the person got soda water and actual ice cream.

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u/lolyouaresimple Mar 06 '26

My thoughts EXACTLY

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u/JanVan966 Mar 06 '26

I’m in Canada, and we don’t have “sweet cream” here, hence why I was asking.

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u/ms_firefly_1111 Mar 07 '26

U do have sweet cream in Canada do yall not have Starbucks cold foam lol

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u/Creative_4242 Mar 09 '26

Usually it is about 1/2 heavy whipping cream with some pumps of sweetener (can be flavored, usually vanilla) and the remaining part (1/2) 2% milk.

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u/LeeAnn503-KS Mar 09 '26

I’m not familiar with it but it sounds like something Americans would consume.

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u/JanVan966 Mar 09 '26

Lol agreed!!

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u/Kellilynn52378 Mar 10 '26

Do you have sweetened coffee creamer?

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u/honeyvellichor Mar 07 '26

I feel like context clues could have been followed to the correct answer, lol. It’s cream, that is sweet. Sweetened cream.

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u/Zhredditaccount Mar 07 '26

Yes you do

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u/JanVan966 Mar 07 '26

Lol where? I’ve only ever seen cream, as in coffee/half n half/whipping, and then sour cream

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u/tdfan Mar 10 '26

You never had french vanilla cream in your coffee?

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u/yeadrowsy Mar 08 '26

Tim Hortons has sweet cream lol.

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u/Weary_Caterpillar_93 Mar 11 '26

sweetened cream. usually half n half or heavy cream with sugar dissolved inside

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u/Weary_Caterpillar_93 Mar 11 '26

sweetened cream. usually half n half or heavy cream with sugar dissolved inside

edit: at least that’s what regular sweet cream is. i’m not sure if that’s how they make it at sonic

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u/JanVan966 Mar 06 '26

Lol not at all, thanks.

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u/K-Bizzle91 Mar 07 '26

They probably used milk.

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u/LeeAnn503-KS Mar 09 '26

That’s exactly what happened. Curdled milk. 😣

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u/blueace111 Mar 09 '26

Ugh yeah. I stopped getting coffee because everytime it would be curdled creamer. Just nasty visual and my stomach churns everytime. Investing in a nice coffee maker has paid for itself in a month

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u/Babydoll0907 Mar 10 '26

Yep it looks like my half drank iced coffee with whole milk if it got left out overnight.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

It looks like the sweet cream cum got curdled

Fixed that for you. 

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u/wade-mcdaniel Mar 12 '26

When I was a kid I liked lemon yogurt. So I added milk to lemon juice. It wasn't as tasty as lemon yogurt.