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Royal Crown Cola (“RC”) is a soft drink. Currently, the beverage is produced and sold by the Dr Pepper Snapple Group in the United States and the Cott Beverage Group internationally. As an independent, the eponymous named company was the first to introduce a diet cola (Diet Rite), and also the first to nationally sell soft drinks in a can.

While conducting minimal research for this dossier, I kept on reading mentions that in the 1950s there was a Southern United States tradition of drinking RC Cola and eating moon pies ⇒ as a cheap meal. Apparently, there is even a yearly RC & Moon Pie Festival held in Bell Buckle, Tennessee. I did not grow up in the South, so I was surprised to find out that either product had any sentimental value.

I do not currently drink soft drinks of any flavor. When I was young, however, I did drink and I liked RC Cola alright. At that time, I thought it was generic because RC did not have the advertising budget to compete in the Cola Wars of the 80s ⇒.

Pop

What to call a soft drink in the generic sense is a question that has different answers in different regions of the country ⇒. I use the word “pop”.

Rusty Shackleford

Donor, Receiver, & Proofreader Brian* initially acquired this shirt through redeeming bottlecaps under the name of “Rusty Shackleford”. He ordered Dr. Pepper shirt in extra large size, but instead got this RC shirt in regular large with signs of wear. I remember this shirt becoming a part of Brian’s active rotation. Later on, he started to work out which led to him becoming too buff to wear this particular shirt.

Rusty Shackelford is a fake name used by the character Dale Gribble ⇒ on the under-rated television show King of the Hill ⇒. Among the many quirks of the Dale Gribble character is that he does not want anyone potentially connected with the U.S. Government, including the pizza parlor, to know his real name. In one episode ⇒, a real Randy Shackleford tracks Gribble down so as to ask for some signatures to undue the damage caused by Gribble.