What is the difference between Dr. Pepper and root beer?

Dr Pepper is a black, fruity fizzy drink you can drink is largely an aniseed based drink and does contain vanilla but like regular coke from a store. I guess somone caled Dr.pepper had invented it or is just the brand name?.

There is also a brand of footwear called Dr.peppers' and popular in the 1930's who made hard wearing factory shoes a little like the Dr Martin's you get now but they are a different company altogether. You also get the sergant Pepper's lonley heart band club that the Beatles in the 1960's made a record about and there were pictures of Dr.Martin's boots on the sleeve of the album and so, I am sure that maybe Dr pepper and dr martin do have something in common?.

As for the well known dr.pepper fizzy drink, that has been around in the US for a lot longer than anywhere else and has been in production since the late 1940's and was a cousin make of the popular vimto drink that became very popular in Britain. It contains nothing but gas and colour and a syrup base to it made up of artificial colours and flavourings - It used to be made out of the fennel seed at one time before it became what it is now and tastes absoloutley awful - I hate the stuff.

Other than this, I don't know but like all fizzy drinks, they are all made of the same stuff no matter what the name is and it is just the colouring that makes the difference. I used to wonder where Fanta came from and used to think it came from disney land when I was too young to understand anything!. I would like to know what cola is meant to be even though it is all colours sugars and caffeine like dr.pepper. I much prefer cola than dr.pepper and because it is less sweeter.

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Charles Hires was a Philadelphia pharmacist who according to his biography discovered a recipe for a delicious herbal tea while on his honeymoon. The pharmacist began selling a dry version of the tea mixture and also began working on a liquid version of the same tea. The result of was a combination of over twenty-five herbs, berries and roots that Charles Hires used to flavor a carbonated soda water drink. The Charles Hires' version of the root beer beverage was first introduced to the public at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial exhibition.

The Hires family continued to manufacture root beer and in 1893 first sold and distributed bottled root beer. Charles Hires and his family certainly contributed greatly to the popularity of modern root beer, however, the origins of root beer can be traced further back in history.

Root beer has its origins in what is referred to as "small beers." Small beers are a collection of local beverages (some alcoholic, some not) made during colonial times in America from a variety of herbs, barks, and roots that included: birch beer, sarsparilla beer, ginger beer and root beer. Ingredients in early root beers included allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger, wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum chips, sarsaparilla, spicewood, wild cherry bark, yellow dock, prickly ash bark, sassafras root*, vanilla beans, hops, dog grass, molasses and licorice. Many of these ingredients are still used in root beer today along with carbonation. There is no one recipe.

Another famous brand of root beer is A & W Root Beer, now the number one selling root beer in the world. A & W Root Beer was founded by Roy Allen, who began marketing root beer in 1919.

*In 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned sassafras as a potential carcinogen, however, a method was found to remove the oil from sassafras. Only the oil is considered dangerous. Sassafras is one of the main ingredients in root beer.

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What is the difference between Dr. Pepper and root beer?

I am from the US, but I don't live there. Years ago when I drank soda I liked root beer, and I didn't like Dr. Pepper. People here that have visited the US have told me that they couldn't tell the difference and what, if any, is the difference between root beer and Dr. Pepper?

dr. pep taste more like cherry coke n root beer just has its own flav

Dr. Pepper has prune juice flavor (I'm not kidding). Root beer has it's own flavor.

they have totally different tastes and i hate them both but can somebody please answer my question!

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