Well, Andrew, you mucked up my weekend a bit with your anti-Dr Pepper rants. My Texan wife came to me yesterday afternoon, mad as a wet hen, saying, “You get on The Corner right now and give that Andrew Stuttaford what-for!”

“Huh?” said I.

“He’s insulting Dr Pepper!”

So I read your entry, in which you testified, accurately, to its vileness. I told Julie: “Well…he’s right, you know.”

“What?! What?!”

Thanks, man. I was putting on my boots to go to mass this morning, and she was going on about the time she went to the Dr Pepper Museum in Waco. You don’t mess with Texans and their Dr Pepper. You really don’t.