Was there a real Dr. Pepper?
In 1885, in Waco, Texas, a young pharmacist called Charles Alderton invented the soft drink “Dr Pepper.” Alderton worked at a place called Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store and carbonated drinks were served at the soda fountain. Alderton invented his own recipes for soft drinks and found one of his drinks was becoming very popular. Morrison, owner of the drug store is credited with naming the drink after a friend of his, Dr. Charles Pepper. Why do onions make people cry? It is not the strong odor of the onion that makes us cry, but the gas that the onion releases when we cut this member of the lily family. The onion itself contains oil, which contains sulphur, an irritant to both our noses and to our eyes. Cutting an onion releases a gas contained within the onion, propanethiol S-oxide, which then couples with the enzymes in the onion to emit a passive sulphur compound. When this gas encounters the water produced by the tear ducts in our eyelids, it produces sulphuric acid. In response
