PLEASE! don't think for a minute that the pepsi had anything to do with the flavor of that sauce my friends, as Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper have all been used in cooking for many years now, the flavor in all these colas all but disapears when they are heated to the boiling point and all you have left is sugar and Phosphoric Acid which is the reason for using them it is just a cheaper way of sweetening the sauce and the acid helps to tenderize when you mop it on the meat while it cooks. Dr Pepper does leave a slight hint of flavor in what you mix it in though but all these products are just a liquid or water base to start with and it would take gallons of this stuff reduced to a syrup by cooking it to allow the water to evaporate and naturally thicken and sweeten from the corn syrup and other sugars already present in the cola and the caramel color is just that a coloring agent and nothing more. so believe them if you want But I believe you were hog tied by the waitress and spanked, not that that aint a good thing, I love being hog tied and spanked by waitresses LOL. J/K