For the curious ones,
It’s called the Artesian Well.
Located next to the bottling machines is the well that provided water in the early years of Dr Pepper bottling. An underground aquifer of artesian water was the source. The water from the well was pumped to the third floor to be filtered and distilled, then it came back down to the first floor through hoses. In the 1920s the well was filled with broken bottles and forgotten until the restoration of the building in the 1980s. They excavated to the depth of 27 and a half feet, which is what you can see today.
I absolutely love this story about how capitalism removes all the resources, then when it’s no longer useful, just trashes the place.
It’s clearly the entrance to a pepper mine. I’m sure it takes a lot of pepper to make Dr Pepper.
This is a common misconception. It does not take a lot of pepper, but it takes the pepper many years to earn its medical degrees before the canning process can begin.
The result is that you need a lot of pepper in the pipeline to keep stable production, not that the drink requires lots of pepper per ml produced.
It’s a bit like running a vineyard.
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It puts the DrPepper on its skin!!
Every time this has been posted, there’s always a comment explaining exactly why it’s there.
And seriously, how did “Jam” see that covered hole in the floor and not go “Cool, an old well!”
Is that where the slurm comes from?
I thought the fear hole was in a Denny’s?
That’s where Dr, Pepper’s Monster lives.
That’s where they keep the people they make Dr. Pepper out of. Don’t believe me? Where do you think those “I’m a Pepper” shirts came from?
