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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Pepper

His degree was in medicine, no one can prove why the drink may have been named for him, as he wasn't involved in the creation of it

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Had to look this up. Dr. Pepper was formulated in Waco Texas by a pharmacist named Charles Alderton, for the soda fountain in the drugstore where he worked. Some say his employer, Wade Morrison, named it after a Dr. Charles Pepper, the father of an old girlfriend. But the Dr. Pepper Museum in Waco has been unable to confirm this story.