<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/93321118-31e0-4924-9fc8-a513bd440126/934A198D-8D4A-4021-B5AF-8A2BE3DCBACB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.chow.com/media/7544" href="http://www.chow.com/media/7544" style="font-size: 11px;">www.chow.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chow.com/media/7544"><H3 class="entry-title"> Indiana Jones and the Off-Brand Two Liter </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chow.com/media/7544"><P>The Dead Sea Scrolls, it is not. The ark of the covenant, not particularly. But the discovery of a dusty old ledger book in the Texas Panhandle may shed some light on the ancient—well, old school—origins of Dr Pepper.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chow.com/media/7544"><P>The <A target="blank" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/6406361.html" linkindex="171">late-19th century book of drugstore formulas</A> includes one for “D Peppers Pepsin Bitters,” which is a bitter digestive drink. The book appears to come from the same Waco drugstore where the prune-esque pop we currently know and tolerate was born, so is this a clue to the soda’s secret recipe?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.chow.com/media/7544"><P>According to AP, “ingredients seem to include mandrake root, sweet flag root, and syrup.” That—it seems safe to hazard—would not be a delicious beverage with which to wash down a Taco Bell Seven-Layer Burrito.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/934A198D-8D4A-4021-B5AF-8A2BE3DCBACB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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