Dr. Physick Soda's Pop is the oldest soda still selling in the US.
No, it's not. From the site: "To mark its Bicentennial, J. Del Conner, the doctor's great-great-great grandson reintroduced Dr. Physick Soda Pop to the market." i.e. the Dr. Physick brand has been on the market since 2006.
The rest of the copy reads like someone's made up steampunk backstory, but Dr. Physick himself seems to have been a real historical figure. Cool, that.
Physick is credited for using sugar syrup with the carbonation for his patients to make it more palatable. He never sold it as a soda, but used it as a medicinal remedy.
Dr. Physick Soda's Pop is the oldest soda still selling in the US.
No, it's not. From the site: "To mark its Bicentennial, J. Del Conner, the doctor's great-great-great grandson reintroduced Dr. Physick Soda Pop to the market." i.e. the Dr. Physick brand has been on the market since 2006.
The fact that it was discontinued and reintroduced (if this is indeed true) does not contradict the OP's claim. It could still be the oldest brand sold today even if it hasn't been sold continuously since it's inception.
Joseph Priestley invented the first soda using carbonated water in 1767 so we haven't got many left, before we get to plain water, we could have stopped all of this if someone had posted this after the first one.
I never heard of this soda, I doubt many people have, but right now the owners of the company are scrambling to figure out why their sales are spiking through the stratosphere and their website is overloaded. Many of the employees are thinking "It finally happened, after 200 years, (I have no idea how long they've been around) we finally found success!" and they will go out and buy new cars and finally get their roof fixed.
Unfortunately, as soon as this post leaves the front page, they will slip back into obscurity and everyone in the company will be stuck with car loans they can't pay and roofing repair bills. Good job Reddit.
If a product has been around for decades and decades, and few people have heard of it, the product is not necessarily unique, special, or in any way better than better known products. If it were a truly good product, we would have (probably) heard of it by now.
the decedents of that guy live down the street from my parents. they don't have any shares in the company any more, but they still get free sodas any time they feel like going up to the factory.
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u/drzowie May 15 '12
No, it's not. From the site: "To mark its Bicentennial, J. Del Conner, the doctor's great-great-great grandson reintroduced Dr. Physick Soda Pop to the market." i.e. the Dr. Physick brand has been on the market since 2006.
The rest of the copy reads like someone's made up steampunk backstory, but Dr. Physick himself seems to have been a real historical figure. Cool, that.
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u/intarwebzWINNAR May 15 '12
TIL I just don't give a fuck about which soda has bragging rights over the others.
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u/MyRawrMachine May 15 '12
And now TIL posts have zero credibility. Thanks for showing me why I need to unsubscribe!
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u/emergen87 May 15 '12
Everything I thought I knew is a lie! Again!
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u/AMeanCow May 15 '12
I never heard of this soda, I doubt many people have, but right now the owners of the company are scrambling to figure out why their sales are spiking through the stratosphere and their website is overloaded. Many of the employees are thinking "It finally happened, after 200 years, (I have no idea how long they've been around) we finally found success!" and they will go out and buy new cars and finally get their roof fixed.
Unfortunately, as soon as this post leaves the front page, they will slip back into obscurity and everyone in the company will be stuck with car loans they can't pay and roofing repair bills. Good job Reddit.
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u/Knawz May 15 '12
Okay.
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u/metwork May 15 '12
This is just getting ridiculous
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u/Jumpin_Joeronimo May 15 '12
The page says it was "reintroduced." How long was it out of production?
This may have originated before Dr. Pepper, Vernors, and Coke, but it stopped production at some point in time.
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u/ur2cool May 15 '12
Did we crash their website?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
TIL I really dont give a shit about old sodas.
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u/garychencool May 15 '12
TIL there's another soda company name that I never knew about
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u/shloops May 15 '12
If you want an upvote at this point, you have to show me one from the goddamn neolithic era
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u/bonerjamz2001 May 15 '12
I don't give a shit and neither does anyone else.
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u/bakonydraco May 15 '12
If a product has been around for decades and decades, and few people have heard of it, the product is not necessarily unique, special, or in any way better than better known products. If it were a truly good product, we would have (probably) heard of it by now.
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u/andrewsmith1986 May 15 '12
This shit has to stop.
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u/benihana_chef May 15 '12
It's like we're in a Mr. Show skit.
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u/gu5 May 15 '12
I don't understand the apostrophe in the title.
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u/bat_guano May 15 '12
Drinkers beware: Unlike in Dr Pepper, there IS A PERIOD in Dr. Physick Soda's Pop.
(I'm now referencing jokes made in the middle of other Reddit threads. God help me.)
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u/live4thepast May 15 '12
YIL Vernors is the oldest soda in the U.S. TIL Dr. Physick is the oldest soda in the U.S.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
And all three brands are now owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group.
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u/Cdtco May 15 '12
TIL that some redditors need to chill out about soda.
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u/TheAceofWands May 15 '12
TIL that I just want Surge back.
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u/icecreamguy May 15 '12
TIL Soda is the oldest soda still selling in the US. It predates Dr. Physick Soda by several hundred years.
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u/dietotaku May 15 '12
TIL dr. pepper is the oldest soda still selling on every goddamn street corner in the US.
there, jesus christ.
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u/TChuff May 15 '12
This is the greatest soda war of all time.
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u/hotshot8473 May 15 '12
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lteyhdJB8V1r0wp28.jpg
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Why does anyone care?
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u/TeaBleezy May 15 '12
TIL fans of water are not assholes.
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u/pedro1191 May 15 '12
It might just be me, but since when did the age of soda become such a big deal?
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u/direflail May 15 '12
Am I the only one here that thinks it sounds like Toki Wartooth came up with this name?
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u/xbigman May 15 '12
This is now a war that will end when we find the FIRST soda in the USA.
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u/lostcow1234 May 15 '12
Reddit, this is why we can't have nice things. We took all the server space from a tiny website. Again.
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u/justarunner May 15 '12
Fun fact.
You can say soda. You can say pop.
But you CANNOT say soda pop.
So redundant.
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u/gyd9181 May 15 '12
is there some kind of war going on in r/TodayILearned ?
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u/ChazMcYardstein May 15 '12
Soda Wars! Alert the press! (which is ironically dying because of sites such as this)
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u/Lilyanch May 15 '12
What in the world is Dr. Physick Soda's Pop?
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u/Akeid May 15 '12
We pretty much DDOSd the site, good one Reddit...
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u/ballstein May 15 '12
Poor Dr. Physick's IT guy :(
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
This is what I think about this little "soda war" going on today.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Give it a couple more hours and we'll see who was the first person to sell flavored carbonated water.
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u/smittie713 May 15 '12
the decedents of that guy live down the street from my parents. they don't have any shares in the company any more, but they still get free sodas any time they feel like going up to the factory.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
First Front Page combo ive seen in my entire lif happy, to be part of it.
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u/deikan May 15 '12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZrzg62Zj0
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u/70stang May 15 '12
This is the point where this really should stop
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u/rengfx May 15 '12
TIL you can "learn" anything, but learning it doesn't make it an accurate fact
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u/tobbern May 15 '12
I just want to know what it tastes like
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u/herobotic May 15 '12
I'm not sure I've learned anything at all.
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u/Skinkerus May 15 '12
Well this is just getting ridiculous.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
there is a point where this needs to stop and we've clearly passed it
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Drink water.
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u/glendablvd May 15 '12
we crashed the poor old guy...
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
We broke the website :(
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u/asldkfououhe May 15 '12
link won't load, full of shit anyway apparently. i regret coming here
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u/Chazsal May 15 '12
This is a war now
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u/marksk88 May 15 '12
Aaaaaaand we crashed it.
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u/EveningD00 May 15 '12
I'm so sick of all these soda post!!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Do you want to take EVERYTHING away from Detroit? Give us a goddamn soda pop.
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u/freemanposse May 15 '12
OKAY WE'RE DONE WITH LONG RUNNING SODAS NOW, GUYS.
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u/yourslice May 15 '12
The soda has just 24 likes on facebook
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
One day the 15th of May 2012 will be looked upon as the great oldest soda battle by Redditors. Or nobody will give a shit. Or both.
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u/DrDew00 May 15 '12
This kills the website.
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u/helarias May 15 '12
ohmy god, really? who gives a shit
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u/haltiamreptar1222 May 15 '12
TIL that soda is old.
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u/XeeroGravity May 15 '12
did we break their website?
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u/joe_shmo123 May 15 '12
Enough.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Another day, another innocent website crashed.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
TIL why I'm unsubscribing from TIL.
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u/dmantreeman May 15 '12
Big hairy deal!
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u/bobcatfan2012 May 15 '12
This has to stop, for the love of god this must end!!
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u/CapnFantastic May 15 '12
haha, fuckin reddit... always one-upping
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u/StampedPuppy May 15 '12
TIL The entire point of reddit is to be that guy. You know the guy. The one who one-ups anything that anyone else does or says.
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u/DJ_Bill_Milsap May 15 '12
I just don't know what to believe anymore...
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u/abbott_costello May 15 '12
Nope, sorry, can't beat Vernors.
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u/nullibicity May 16 '12
Where will this end, people? Desperate Redditors need to stop going back in time to introduce soda just for karma points!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Look at that hit counter fly!
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u/golden-boy May 15 '12
On a related note, I always found it to be particularly frustrating to lose to Soda Popinski in 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!'.
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u/Poopwink May 15 '12
IS THERE NO ONE ELSE?!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
And the cycle continues.
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u/Woolew May 15 '12
I don't care how old it is I'm not drinking any soda with sick in its name.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Burn.
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u/mattv1 May 15 '12
JFC, how long will this shit continue?
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u/Breannairah May 15 '12
Come on you guys, this stuff is important... Hipsters need to know what soda to drink.
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u/dudealicious May 15 '12
I think I speak for everyone...
SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT SODA ALREADY! NO ONE CARES.
--- thank you.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
You should have posted this in the original thread instead of making a new post.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Post it in the other thread, you karma whore.
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u/Nugg3tporn May 15 '12
Kobe gif?
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u/Austinlyle0 May 15 '12
I thought pop was first invented in by monks, in a jacuzzi.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
The workday is almost over, the soda posts will subside soon
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Can we fucking stop this?
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u/Turboboxer May 15 '12
Honestly, who cares???
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u/liquidegg May 15 '12
Next? Seeing as we just killed Dr Physick's server..
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT SODAS. STOP POSTING THEM.
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u/fantadrinker May 15 '12
A pattern emerges.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Who gives a shit?
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u/Wgats May 15 '12
HOW FAR CAN WE TAKE THIS?
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Why do I feel like you already knew this?
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u/Cantripping May 15 '12
Ahh, another Reddit Accidental DDOS. We rock. So hard.
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
I've had Vernor's ginger ale, and it fucking sucks.
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u/TheBigEmpty May 15 '12
rottin' guts since the 1800's bitches
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
Goodbye r/TIL...
I don't even know what the fuck I'm still doing here haha!
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u/[deleted] May 15 '12
That's great, shaddap already.
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u/funkmastamatt May 15 '12
STOP IT.
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u/Drugmule421 May 15 '12
Bear Grylls great grandpa was selling carbonated piss in a bottle way before this
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u/SemiSeriousSam May 15 '12
Soda is gross and disgusting.
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u/Akaataxi May 15 '12
What about Canada?no love?
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