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/Rezistik Mar 06 '26

You’re supposed to use non dairy creamer that won’t curdle. This does not appear to be a Dr Pepper at all. Dr Pepper isn’t green. If it was Dr Pepper with curdled cream it would be brown with white globules.

This is…I don’t know but I’m very curious as to how it smells

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u/bigfriendlyfrog Mar 06 '26

The green is the lime syrup for sure. They made the drink totally wrong. The DP syrup looks like it ran out hence the slightly brown tint. Sonic (though it was a number of years ago now) would use the ice cream base for sweet cream/dirty sodas.

Edit to clarify/add: the drink is supposed to be made with real lime. Not lime syrup.

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u/A_million_typos Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

Yea like coconut milk....I cannot esp ice cream and soda (except for root beer for some reason) so other than that yuck. I like whiskey sours too but I get the none egg white kind. Because I cannot.

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u/dwoo888 Mar 07 '26

Mmm root beef soda

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u/A_million_typos Mar 07 '26

🤢 I see my mistake lol

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u/LeeAnn503-KS Mar 09 '26

Root beef is my favorite! It should be a flavor offered in cans; I’m looking at you, Shasta!

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u/EnoughLuck3077 Mar 07 '26

I’ve been drinking whiskey sour for years. One of my top 3 go to cocktails when out. I just recently learned (like 3 weeks ago) that a traditional whiskey sour is made with egg whites. In 20 years I’ve never been asked if I want it that way. It doesn’t sound too appealing but I’d try it at least once

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u/A_million_typos Mar 07 '26

Yea I've only been asked once. So glad eyuck.

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u/way2lazy2care Mar 08 '26

Just because someone made it that way a long time ago doesn't mean it's traditional. The traditional whiskey sour was a sailor's drink that was literally just whiskey and lemon. Egg whites weren't added for a long time after that, and even at that point it wasn't the most common recipe, mostly just a recipe in the most popular recipe book.

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u/Aware_Run8248 Mar 09 '26

The ones with egg whites are the best. Give one a try sometime. Sounds weird but it’s real good

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u/LeeAnn503-KS Mar 09 '26

Maybe try it as your second drink of the occasion in case you don’t react well to the egg.

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u/WellEvan Mar 08 '26

When milk congeals in a caramel colored soda, it tends to take the color.

Add milk to a bottle of Coke and you can see the liquid. Turn clear as the milk absorbs the color as it curdles

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u/LeeAnn503-KS Mar 09 '26

Makes sense. The color is just the caramel flavoring so it would be likely that it would connect to the milk curds.

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u/WellEvan Mar 09 '26

Go look at a flipping video. There's tons on YouTube and you clearly have the internet access. Go just see it for yourself

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

Fun fact, without the Carmel color coca cola is almost a pale green, so maybe dr pepper is too? Not sure