WACO?

Be a pepper (Waco, Texas)

A year before another world-famous cola made its debut in Atlanta (see slide 1), Dr Pepper was first sold in 1885.
Thank Charles Alderton, a young pharmacist at Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, Texas, who enjoyed working at the store’s soda fountain when he wasn’t busy mixing medicines in the back room. According to company lore, he especially enjoyed the way the scents of all the different fruit syrups mingled together, and he set out to create a soft drink with a flavor to match that smell.

By 1923 the fruit-flavored beverage that Alderton created had outgrown its original bottling facility, and the company moved to Dallas. But in 1991 the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company building in downtown Waco, the soft drink’s original home, was opened to the public as the Dr Pepper Museum.