I’ve been drinking a lot of Dr. Pepper lately. And every now and then I get the aftertaste of pepper. I sought confirmation from my right-hand woman only to be scoffed at. I asked one other only to get the same response. People don’t seem to take the question seriously, Does Dr. Pepper actually taste like pepper (at least sometimes)? I say yes. But only sometimes. It’s fleeting. You have to catch the pepper taste before it escapes. Ingenious.