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In article <2189@sdcrdcf.UUCP> steve@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Steve Holtsberg) writes:
>I just had a can of Dr. Pepper today, and it said on the can
>"Packaged at the Coca-Cola bottling company", although made at
>the Dr. Pepper Company.  So, even though they don't make it,
>Coca-Cola is making money off of Dr. Pepper.

You are dealing with two separate institutions here!  The bottling
companies are not (necessarily) owned by the company that makes the
syrup.  Consequently, they can make agreements with whichever companies
they wish to bottle their products, subject, of course, to certain
exclusivity agreements.  The fact that bottling companies usually take
their names from the name of their principal product is irrelevant.
Dr. Pepper may be bottled by the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Outer
Slovabia but by the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Inner Moldavia.  Both
buy their syrup from the Dr. Pepper company in Wherever.

Separate question:  if Diet Slice contains 10% fruit juice, how can it
contain so few calories?

	-paul asente

Amusing anecdote:  as an undergraduate, I discovered that if you put
the soft serve ice cream from the machines in the dining hall into the
Coke from the machines in the dining hall, and waited about ten
minutes, what you ended up with was a glass of almost clear liquid with
about half an inch of dark brown scum at the top.  Yum!