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Topic started on 21-11-2008 @ 04:06 AM by LeaderOfProgress
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Dr Pepper to deliver on its free-soda promise
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 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dr Pepper is making good on its promise of free soda now that the release of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" is a
reality.
The soft-drink maker said in March that it would give a free soda to everyone in America if the album dropped in 2008. "Chinese Democracy," infamously
delayed since recording began in 1994, goes on sale Sunday
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 04:06 AM by LeaderOfProgress
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Beginning Sunday at 12:01 a.m., coupons for a free 20-ounce soda will be available for 24 hours on Dr Pepper's Web site. They'll be honored until Feb.
28.
How about that a promise made by a corporation that is kept in full. I am impressed. So spread the word on the free soda. Its not often this stuff
happens. I wonder how much this will cost them in the end.
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 04:15 AM by desertdreamer
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I dunno how much it will cost them, but you can bet I will get my coupon! I still like Dublin Dr. Pepper better, but it is expensive now.
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 11:07 AM by LeaderOfProgress
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I have tried that before, the one with real cane sugar, but I wasn't swayed that it was that different. It was good but I really couldn't tell the
difference.
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 11:30 AM by an0maly33
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I have to say good on them for keeping the promise. I think the publicity they'll get from it is worth the expense of handing some colored sugar
water. I'll be in line. =)
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 11:57 AM by CallSign
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Except it isn't just coloured, sugared water...
Rather than lauding this give away of Dr. Pepper this should raise some eyebrows.
Dr. Pepper is one of a large number of soft drinks that contains High Fructose Corn Syrup.
It is, essentially, corn syrup that undergoes processing to artificially increase it's Fructose(sugar) content.
It has been linked to a numer of adverse health problems including obesity and diabetes. Some studies have concluded that it interferes with the
body's leptin, which regulates feeling of fullness and appetite.
Some studies have concluded that HFCS has no ill health effects. These studies have been funded by, such biased institutions as the American Beverage
Institute and Tate and Lyle (a corn refiner that makes huge profits from HFCS).
The processing of this substance also requires the use of at least one genetically modified enzyme. Despite this, many soft drinks and foods
containing HFCS are labelled 'natural' because the US FDA has no definition of the term or restrictions concerning its use.
It is also advertised with disingenuous claims as being made from corn, having no artificial ingredients, and being nutritionally the same as sugar,
with no mention of the chemical processing that is undergone to produce it, nor the alleged effects it has on the human appetite.
In addition, there is a financial incentive for companies to use HFCS as opposed to natural sugars because of subsidies and import duties. Why would
someone decide to subsidise an artificial sugar that promotes obesity and disease, and tax a natural form of energy?
Bear this in mind while you're cracking open another free can. What's the worse that can happen??
CS
Wikipedia article on High Fructose Corn Syrup
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 09:44 PM by desertdreamer
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Originally posted by CallSign
Except it isn't just coloured, sugared water...
Rather than lauding this give away of Dr. Pepper this should raise some eyebrows.
Dr. Pepper is one of a large number of soft drinks that contains High Fructose Corn Syrup.
It is, essentially, corn syrup that undergoes processing to artificially increase it's Fructose(sugar) content.
It has been linked to a numer of adverse health problems including obesity and diabetes. Some studies have concluded that it interferes with the
body's leptin, which regulates feeling of fullness and appetite.
Some studies have concluded that HFCS has no ill health effects. These studies have been funded by, such biased institutions as the American Beverage
Institute and Tate and Lyle (a corn refiner that makes huge profits from HFCS).
The processing of this substance also requires the use of at least one genetically modified enzyme. Despite this, many soft drinks and foods
containing HFCS are labelled 'natural' because the US FDA has no definition of the term or restrictions concerning its use.
It is also advertised with disingenuous claims as being made from corn, having no artificial ingredients, and being nutritionally the same as sugar,
with no mention of the chemical processing that is undergone to produce it, nor the alleged effects it has on the human appetite.
In addition, there is a financial incentive for companies to use HFCS as opposed to natural sugars because of subsidies and import duties. Why would
someone decide to subsidise an artificial sugar that promotes obesity and disease, and tax a natural form of energy?
Bear this in mind while you're cracking open another free can. What's the worse that can happen??
CS
Wikipedia article on High Fructose Corn Syrup
The worst thing that could happen........if I dropped the free Dr. Pepper 
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 10:30 PM by RRconservative
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Originally posted by CallSign
Bear this in mind while you're cracking open another free can. What's the worse that can happen??
They are giving away 20 oz bottles. Bottles that have a twist off top, not a pop top can.
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 10:35 PM by vox2442
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Just finished streaming the album.
It was almost - but not quite - as entertaining as drinking a can of Dr. Pepper.
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 10:36 PM by mattifikation
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Really, it's not Dr. Pepper's responsibility to ensure people eat healthy diets. They produce a product. In moderation, it will likely cause no
adverse health affects to anybody who doesn't drown themselves in it. I think the vast majority of people are aware that soda and other sweets are
junk food, and that over-indulgence on them is going to be unhealthy.
That being said, it's cool that the company is making good on their offer. Now, my only question is, how will they respond to the inevitable idiots
who will be complaining that they didn't get a coupon because they couldn't get Internet access?
For the record, I think Dr. Pepper tastes revolting and won't be accepting a free drink from them. I appreciate their offer though. :-)
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 10:52 PM by sadisticwoman
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Good for them, better for me.
Om nom nom, delicious soda.
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reply posted on 21-11-2008 @ 10:56 PM by Rollinster
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If they deliver on that I am all over it. 
The publicity alone surely would help...
especially in these times.
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reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 12:27 AM by whoshotJR
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....and then without the public knowledge the next terrorist attack strikes but this time they got into our Dr pepper supply!
The Dr. Pepper has a mutating virus in it that turns everyone into zombies and causes the most horrible scenario mankind has seen ( except maybe when
there was a huge fight for Atlantis and they blew up mankind)
Obama is now forced to make choices the public cant and wont understand. He is forced to blow up every soda factory to save mankind. This pisses off
the Mormons because they own Pepsi and its the main financial backer in their plans for world domination. They then turn to Hezbollah and Iran/Russia
and start to make plans for a real red dawn scenario by infiltrating with their awesome door to door powers and great involvement in their local
communities. They will also use brainwashing via the new Guns N Roses album.
Lucky for us the web bots have predicted that aliens will stop us before nuclear war breaks out.
man that prediction should be its own thread in skunkworks.
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reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 12:32 AM by desertdreamer
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Originally posted by whoshotJR
....and then without the public knowledge the next terrorist attack strikes but this time they got into our Dr pepper supply!
The Dr. Pepper has a mutating virus in it that turns everyone into zombies and causes the most horrible scenario mankind has seen ( except maybe when
there was a huge fight for Atlantis and they blew up mankind)
Obama is now forced to make choices the public cant and wont understand. He is forced to blow up every soda factory to save mankind. This pisses off
the Mormons because they own Pepsi and its the main financial backer in their plans for world domination. They then turn to Hezbollah and Iran/Russia
and start to make plans for a real red dawn scenario by infiltrating with their awesome door to door powers and great involvement in their local
communities. They will also use brainwashing via the new Guns N Roses album.
Lucky for us the web bots have predicted that aliens will stop us before nuclear war breaks out.
man that prediction should be its own thread in skunkworks.
Stick it in there......I bet they will run with it!
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reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 12:35 AM by prototism
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I'm sorry, no meaningful discussion can come from this, so I'm just going to pictorially express my feelings on the story:
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reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 01:17 AM by stander
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reply to post by CallSign
Don't tell me that Coke and Pepsi live outside the family mansion.
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reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 01:21 AM by gimme_some_truth
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Originally posted by desertdreamer
The worst thing that could happen........if I dropped the free Dr. Pepper
That is just my luck. I open my free Dr Pepper to take my first sip, some one bumps me in the rush to get one of their own and I drop it with out
getting a single sip 
Seriously though, I cant wait to get my Dr Pepper.
That said, this thread does not belong on ATS's breaking alternative news forum. There is nothing about this that is fits into the alternative news
section. It belongs on the BTS side. mabye under breaking general news or chitchat.
[edit on 22-11-2008 by gimme_some_truth]
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reply posted on 22-11-2008 @ 05:41 PM by Rollinster
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Originally posted by whoshotJR
....and then without the public knowledge the next terrorist attack strikes but this time they got into our Dr pepper supply!
The Dr. Pepper has a mutating virus in it that turns everyone into zombies and causes the most horrible scenario mankind has seen ( except maybe when
there was a huge fight for Atlantis and they blew up mankind)
Obama is now forced to make choices the public cant and wont understand. He is forced to blow up every soda factory to save mankind. This pisses off
the Mormons because they own Pepsi and its the main financial backer in their plans for world domination. They then turn to Hezbollah and Iran/Russia
and start to make plans for a real red dawn scenario by infiltrating with their awesome door to door powers and great involvement in their local
communities. They will also use brainwashing via the new Guns N Roses album.
Lucky for us the web bots have predicted that aliens will stop us before nuclear war breaks out.
man that prediction should be its own thread in skunkworks.
I don't care what anybody says, this (above quote) is funny funny funny.
I needed that!
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reply posted on 23-11-2008 @ 12:10 AM by LeaderOfProgress
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reply posted on 23-11-2008 @ 01:37 AM by johnsky
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To everyone in America?
... do they mean, United States of America, or actually all of America?
I wonder if they can be called on that one. lol.
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