Looks interesting, I wonder how sweet. An especially sweet drink doesn't appeal to me. I'm not very adventuresome when it comes to soft drinks. DH keeps an assortment of types in the garage refrigerator for his friends and I keep ginger ale in the kitchen for something refreshing to occasionally enjoy.

I had a bit of regular Dr Pepper the other day by accident. Ordered a diet coke, took one sip and wow. Told them they must have given me cherry coke. We don't have cherry coke. Ok, whatever you gsve me is wrong. They came back, turns out the gun had a D on it someone pushed that button. D for doctor, not diet.

Wonder if the coconut loses the cherry? Let us know!

That is very curious. I would try it just to try it. I am exclusively a diet coke gal. Soooo miss my lime coke! But this sounds like it's worth a sip anyway.

When I was seven I went on a field trip to a tiny museum in Laurel Ms and one of the kids talked me into getting Dr Pepper to go with my lunch sandwich. What I remember from that day was seeing a basket made by Indians from an Armadillo shell, seriously cool, the world's second smallest basket which to my seven year old eye looked like a tiny dob of clay with stripes painted on it-under magnification-total disappointment and the complete gag of Dr Pepper. My 10 cents down the tube. I remembered the Armadillo years later when someone brought a dead Armadillo to the school (I was incidentally back in the same area) and I recognized what it was but no one paid any attention to me. They were being reintroduced to eat fire ants. Bad idea. I cant imagine I would care for coconut soda with or without the cherry flavor but I know the cherry stuff is popular.

There is a Dr Pepper museum in Waco, which is 27 miles north of where I grew up. We had armadillos in our yards at night the whole time I was growing up.

I rarely drink soda and do not buy it at the store, but Kevin drinks huge amounts of diet Dr Pepper. If I drink soda, it will be grapefruit flavor or ginger ale. My favorite grapefruit soda is Peñafiel, which is now owned by Dr Pepper Snapple Group. I started drinking Peñafiel around 1973, when it was only made in Mexico, but readily available in the southern half of Texas.

Sorry, but that flavor in the OP doesn't appeal at all.

FWIW, here's a fun video about Dr. Pepper's backstory I watched awhile back...

Not a soda drinker for many decades now, but when I did, I liked Fresca and Lemon Pepsi. Nowadays, I prefer flavored unsweetened seltzer - and grapefruit flavor reminds me of Fresca 🙂

When I lived in Dallas, our offices were across the tracks from the Dr Pepper building. Once I discovered there was Diet Dr Pepper, I was hooked. I’ve never like sugar sodas, especially as a kid. Moving north, I missed Diet Dr Pepper, but a couple of fast food restaurants now offer it. And at the store now we can get it, and diet ginger ale, in those little 7oz cans. We don’t drink much pop, but sometimes it’s just what fits the bill, and those little ones are just right, and we will even split one! Really!

At one time, there was ”low-sodium dr pepper”, which I drank for a while. and when I accidentally got a regular one, I was surprised that it did, in fact, taste salty! But I don’t think they make that anymore. I just checked my fridge, and the diet DrP has almost half the sodium as the diet ginger ale!

As to the coconut DrP, if they make a low sugar version I might try it, otherwise it sounds way too sweet.

Lars, Fresca! Yes!

We are Diet Dr. Pepper drinkers. I tried the Strawberry Cream version expecting to be too sweet or have a syrupy texture. Turns out it is neither. I like it. But it's the diet version. On the other hand, a guilty pleasure of mine is Shasta Tiki Punch. Still like the original but not the diet version. It is the only non diet soft drink I like other than ginger ale. Diet ginger ale somehow doesn't work for me either.

I try ALL new flavors of Dr. Pepper. The zero sugar version though. The one above, is VERY coconutty. Its like a coconut drink with a TINY amount of Dr. Pepper. It is ok, but I probably won't get it again. My favorite is the Zero Sugar Dr. Pepper with Cream Soda. I also like the strawberry and the cherry one too.

I prefer Squirt to Fresca for domestic grapefruit soda, but Peñafiel is better, and I also like Jarritos. Incidentally, in Mexico, Squirt is pronounced "Esquirt" and you have to order it that way in order to be understood.

If I buy diet soda, I make sure that it is made with Aspartame instead of Saccharine, which I hate. I always read ingredients on diet sodas before buying, but I haven't bought any in quite a while - not in my recent memory (which seems to be getting shorter).

I think I might like coconut Dr Pepper, as I love coconut, but Kevin does not.

Like Kevin I have been drinking Dr. Pepper most of my life. He's right--it is good cold, hot or any other way. I plan to try the creamy coconut but doubt that it will rise to the level of the old faithful variety.

Dr Pepper is the worst tasting soda, next to Mr Pibb. Putting coconut flavoring in it isn't going to help lol.

Sounds vile to me. But I don't drink any sodas at all, ever.

I've tried Dr. Pepper; not recently. Ginger Ale here, the kind made with actual ginger, not 'ginger flavoring'. We seldom drink any soda pop though, and never 'diet' anything. Even our ketchup (Red Gold) has real sugar.

I saw Green River on the grocery shelves recently. That's an oldie, but not a goodie IMO.

Chisue, I got a ginger ale in Scotland when I was there. OMG, not a ginger lover but okay with American ginger ale. I don't usually drink sodas these days but it sounded good. It wasn't, straight up, pure ginger flavor. It was rough. I'm half Japanese and the only time I eat ginger is with my sushi or when I had morning sickness when I was pregnant years ago and my mom sent me a jar of pickled ginger.

I seem to recall hot Dr Pepper being served at football games when it was cold. I never tried it, and wonder how it is.

That reminded me of this video from Max Miller 😀

I tried it with a couple cinnamon rolls. It's a reasonable mix of coconut and Dr Pepper cherryness. Probably not the best choice with a food-meal, burger, etc. More so with something sweet or as standalone.

I haven't had a soda in ages. It's probably been more than 20 years. Used to love root beer and ginger ale.

Now I'm thinking the last time I had a soda was when Abita root beer first came out in the mid 90s.

https://abita.com/brew/root-beer/

Chisue, I love a Green River milkshake. I don't remember ever drinking the soda.

There is about one place in the closest three counties that still offers a Green River Shake and its not particularly convenient to get to so a rare treat these last many years.

Creamy coconut sounds revolting! I used to enjoy a D Pepper, even one without real sugar. But, the last time I poured up a D Pepper without sugar, it was so darned sweet tasting that I poured it out! It seems to me that they have, somehow, make it to taste so ungodly sweet. beyond measure!