Hello, I'm Edd, and I'm addicted to caffeine.

[eddvick]

I've been drinking Dr. Pepper for 45 years, often several a day. A few years ago I tried to cut down, and recently converted to Diet Coke (Diet DP is awful). I knew it was also bad, but didn't realize just how bad.

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[bedii]

Normally I'd agree with you about Diet Dr. Pepper. (the only diet drink LBJ was ever seen with. I guess they raise 'em *TOUGH* in Hill Country.) They've been coming out with some diet versions with special flavors the last couple of years, however, and they aren't too bad.

I mainly drink Diet Dr. P if I want something so bad it can keep me awake no matter what. That's assuming I can't find Diet Mountain Dew or Diet Squirt, which are even worse. I hate aspartame...

[krag_carbine]

Hi Ed.

[cupton]

I remember well going down to Seattle in the early 1980's and hanging out with Edd and the gang in his creaky apartment crammed with books, comics and zines over a deli when they were doing Comics F/X, one of the leading joutrnals of the small press comics movement. I couldn,t help but notice everywhere you looked in the kitchen there was stacks of DR.Pepper, Dr pepper in the fridge, Dr.Pepper everywhere. "Isn't that just prune pop?" I would ask myself. I aquired a taste for DR.Pepper at Edds place, can't say it became an addiction. Hard to imagine Edd without the Doc Pepper...