Has anyone seen Chocolate Cherry in the Delaware/Northern Maryland/Southeastern Pennsylvania region?

Man, I seriously wish Dr. Pepper (and a few others) wouldn't keep making all the neat looking flavors Diet. I absolutely can't stand sugar substitutes; the aftertaste hangs in my mouth literally for hours sometimes, and I feel a little sick even with one swallow (or even mouthful, such as when I tried a mouthwash with aspartame in it).

I guess they just figure Americans are all worried about their weight. But come on, the HFCS and the cancer-causing sugar substitutes are probably way more harmful than a little sugar energy you can burn off. Ugh.

Well said. Cane sugar and even HFCS makes for great soda pop.
I tried to drink a can of diet coke a few weeks ago. I took one
gulp and that was it. After a few minutes I felt sick.

I live in Northern Delaware, and I haven't found it yet. Philadelphia Coke has Dr Pepper around here.. in fact, they still have Cherry Vanilla.

Pepsi has Dr Pepper in most of Maryland, and they don't have the new one, either..though I was told they had sales samples.

CCE has Dr Pepper in a small chunk of Delaware south of the C&D Canal, but they generally just have reg, diet, diet cv.

My .02 cents:
I tried it and just did not like the flavor at all. Then again, I can't recall any chocolate drink that I enjoyed that wasn't dairy based.

I do believe this is an "in and out" proposition for Pepper. January is diet time, along with the rest of Q-1, so it being a diet product makes some sense.

I don't think there will be any change to Cherry Vanilla availability.

Is this going o be a national rollout? Or limited to the midwest?

Originally Posted by Swifty

Is this going o be a national rollout? Or limited to the midwest?

I understand it to be National.

Haven't seen this anywhere in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area yet. Even tried Jungle Jim's and Party Source in Covington last week with no luck. Anyone else found it here?

I went out in search of it again in Abarta and Philadelphia Coke territories north of me, and still no sign of it. I did find some sucrose CF Classic and Vanilla Coke 12 packs from Abarta, though (regular Classic and Cherry were HFCS).

Originally Posted by Label Guy

Haven't seen this anywhere in the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area yet. Even tried Jungle Jim's and Party Source in Covington last week with no luck. Anyone else found it here?

I'm in central Ohio and its coming out sometime in January, so it will probably be the same time for you as well (same distributor).