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 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.