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When the time comes, they will unseal it. (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I absolutely love this story about how capitalism removes all the resources, then when it's no longer useful, just trashes the place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure that's the work of people. I don't think it was the will of capitalism to order people to throw bottles into an old well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Capitalism isn't the work of people ? Is it some kind of god you pray to ? Well that makes sense actually

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Cheapest way to dispose of broken bottles. Just chuck it into the well.

Absolutely done to increase profit margins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"How do we get rid of all these bottles, boss?"

Boss looks at huge empty well.

"There's nothin' cheaper than throwin' 'em down that hole we sucked all the water out of! Who's gonna care?"

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Dr. Pepper is actually just some weird sludge they found in that hole. Once the sludge is gone, there will be no more Dr. Pepper to consume. And then things will get interesting.

[–] scratchresistor 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oompa loompa doobadee darmedguards...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

SHUT THE HELL UP!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

But then everything changed, when the Pepsi nation attacked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Party with the Slurm worm!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well well well

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's clearly the entrance to a pepper mine. I'm sure it takes a lot of pepper to make Dr Pepper.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It puts the DrPepper on its skin!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Every time this has been posted, there’s always a comment explaining exactly why it’s there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And seriously, how did "Jam" see that covered hole in the floor and not go "Cool, an old well!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is that where the slurm comes from?

https://morbotron.com/meme/S02E04/765870.jpg?b64lines=IFdIRVJFIEFSRSBXRT8gQU5EIFdIWQogSVMgVEhFIFNMVVJNIFBPVVJJTkcKIElOVE8gVEhJUyBTRVdFUj8=

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I thought the fear hole was in a Denny's?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

That's where Dr, Pepper's Monster lives.