FAVORITE SOFT DRINK?

[saxitoxin]

Vote!

[betiko]

Orangina.

[jimboston]

I suspect Saxi is a fan of Moxie.

[2dimes]

Valued mods; Please add another option such as. I won't be bullied by lame polls without voreable options.

Or at least Dr Pepper, Grape Crush, Canadian Mountain Dew back when it didn't have caffeine...

[KoolBak]

Mt Dew without caffeine?!?! That's sacrilegious!! I suppose you also enjoy a nice alcohol free Labatts? Ya freak...

[Dukasaur]

When the hell did they add caffeine to Mountain Dew?

Glad I don't drink that shit any more.

[DoomYoshi]

When the hell did they add caffeine to Mountain Dew?

Glad I don't drink that shit any more.

It's always had caffeine. Except in Canada it was illegal for any light-colored soft drink to have caffeine, so they took it out for the Canadian market. Now that long is no longer on the books, so you can stay up all night playing HALO, with mountain dew and Ritalin to give you a competitive edge. Although some kids like to pair Mountain Dew: Code Red with Adderal. It's the new type of wine pairings.

[Dukasaur]

When the hell did they add caffeine to Mountain Dew?

Glad I don't drink that shit any more.

It's always had caffeine. Except in Canada it was illegal for any light-colored soft drink to have caffeine, so they took it out for the Canadian market. Now that long is no longer on the books, so you can stay up all night playing HALO, with mountain dew and Ritalin to give you a competitive edge. Although some kids like to pair Mountain Dew: Code Red with Adderal. It's the new type of wine pairings.

I don't know which part of that I find most disgusting. I suppose there's nothing objectively wrong with it, it's just my reaction. I associate Mountain Dew with being 10 years old, drug-free, and a virgin. I suppose some people keep drinking it after puberty, which seems downright weird. I'm pretty sure I never did.

[DoomYoshi]

That's a strange association since the name Mountain Dew is a parody of moonshine, which also used to be called "Mountain Dew". The name is supposed to evoke Appalachian stills hidden during prohibition.

[2dimes]

The plot thickens, I doubt I can find it but, I read an article that claimed Mountain Dew was specifically created to mix with alcohol.

They changed the law because Coca-Cola and a few other corporations did not want to make all energy drinks brown in colour.

[Dukasaur]

I guess childhood illusions fall away. I used to think John Denver was the all-American choir boy, as pure as the freshly-fallen snow. Turned out later he was the world's biggest pothead and a serial adulterer. Go figure.

But in my day nobody drank Mountain Dew after a certain age. It was a kiddie drink.

[DoomYoshi]

The plot thickens, I doubt I can find it but, I read an article that claimed Mountain Dew was specifically created to mix with alcohol.

Wikipedia to the rescue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

[2dimes]

That says the caffeine was added in 2012. Thanks Obama!

It's interesting to note initially it was too harsh for me to enjoy. Eventually I was wore down and now I can't recall how the more mellow delicious caffeine free stuff tasted different.

[KoolBak]

Personally, I don't like it, but it's always been known here as about the most caffeinated drink

Duk of Death...did you not drink coke or pepsi or Dr Pepper as a virginial kid? Those have caffeine....

[2dimes]

I liked Dr Pepper but mostly drank Coke slurpees in grade 8 then Diet Coke super big gulps in high school. Then I had a crush on a Mormon girl and gave up caffeine.

Root Beer, Grape Crush and Mountain Dew were my top three. She did not like me but I sniffed around the cult for others.

At the time most Root Beer was caffeine free here too.

Of course I had no idea how violently I reeked from the Export A greens my parents smoked.

[rdsrds2120]

There's just something about Coke and spicy food.

Normal go to when getting a soft drink will always be DP though.

[2dimes]

See, add Dr Pepper and you'll start getting votes.

[mookiemcgee]

I don't know which part of that I find most disgusting. I suppose there's nothing objectively wrong with it, it's just my reaction. I associate Mountain Dew with being 10 years old, drug-free, and a virgin. I suppose some people keep drinking it after puberty, which seems downright weird. I'm pretty sure I never did.

Mountain Dew then:



Mountain Dew now:

[betiko]

honestly, the only times I had mountain dew was when i was in the states because it only exists there, i was 14 in 1994 and 20/21 in 2000/2001 and mountain dew didn't have caffeine... I think. It was kinda close to sprite/seven up but a bit different.

Anyways; strong advise tomy american friends: a soft drink should be a treat. like a can a day, and not while you eat. The only acceptable liquids while you eat are water and wine, if you don't want to be a fatass american

[2dimes]

If you drank Mountain Dew in the USA it had caffeine. Only Canadian Mountain Dew was caffeine free because of Canadian law prohibiting it in "light coloured drinks".
https://cwsf.youthscience.ca/caffeine

The same went for Orange pop. I forget the brand but there is an Orange pop in the US that has lots of caffeine in it.

I have not checked Orange crush lately. I suspect it does not have any. The bottle of Grape Crush in our refrigerator does not have any. The can of Dr Pepper lists caffeine but does not give a quantity here.

7up used to advertise, "Crisp and clean, no caffeine." to point out the fact it intentionally omitted the stuff.

[Dukasaur]

Personally, I don't like it, but it's always been known here as about the most caffeinated drink

Duk of Death...did you not drink coke or pepsi or Dr Pepper as a virginial kid? Those have caffeine....

Probably had the odd sample here and there, but I don't recall drinking Coke in any appreciable quantity until I started drinking booze. Right from the start, Coke to me is a mix for rye or rum. All my significant memories of drinking Coke in any significant quantity also involve booze in significant quantity. Never thought of it as a kiddie drink.

I only tried Dr. Pepper once. It was so loathsome I never repeated the experience.

[2dimes]

When I was a child last century we did not get pop very often and were usually not allowed Coca-Cola except near Christmas. We drank milk or water, occasionally juice or pop as a treat.

We could have orange and rootbeer and a favorite early on was Grape Crush. That might be why I still love Grape Crush though not nearly as often. On one trip through Montana I found it in glass bottles, that was how it came when I was a little guy and let me tell you, it makes a huge difference.

We sometimes got some Pepsi at our Uncle's house because his wife loved it and always had some on hand. Sometimes we even got what my cousins called Pilk, Pepsi and milk mixed. Probably nasty but at the time it was extraordinary, like virgin Paralizers!

As an adult I have not tried Pilk for a very long time but do recall it's not as delicious as Paralizers.

Once I was a big bugger at around 14 my mom stopped worrying about anything stunting my growth so that was when Coke slurpees got a bit out of hand. Drinking one a day on the way home from school. I'm not sure what is in those but I noticed I would get wicked cravings for them and that first sip was soothing. That and the hot Morman girl made me decide to quit Coca-Cola and return to drinks without caffeine.

Sometime after I was married, my wife likes colas, Coca-Cola switched their fountain rootbeer to Barq's, I don't like it.

I started drinking Coca-Cola at Burger King and sometimes at other times. I noticed that thing where I could feel the first sip in my whole body. It's not the caffeine, because Pepsi, Dr Pepper, Barq's the now caffeinated Mountain Dew, Coffee and Tea don't do the trick. Only Coca-Cola.

So for the most part I quit it again. Then I quit soft drinks because of the lie that I would lose weight. Annoying, I didn't. Now a try to drink as much water as I can or unsweetened tea, I like Dr Pepper quite a bit and have come back around to Mountain Dew.

[KoolBak]

Anyways; strong advise tomy american friends: a soft drink should be a treat. like a can a day, and not while you eat. The only acceptable liquids while you eat are water and wine, if you don't want to be a fatass american

Ya know, I like you Frenchie, but your fucking over generalizations simply astound me. If you're trying to be funny, I don't see it. If you're serious, you simply flaunt your ignorance

I keep trying to come back to the public forums, but the unbelievable idiocy here simply grows....sigh. Gonna stick to the private; I'm sure you're all heartbroken.

[2dimes]

Here's another bit of dimes trivia supporting Duke's kiddie drink theory. For a brief period I tried to quit drinking.

However one of my favorite things at the time was going to bars for wings or steak sandwich specials. I would be stuck drinking Sprite or 7up because they never had the soft drinks I liked.

Even though Mountain Dew was created to mix with booze it never caught on. Bummer, 10 cent wings and Mountain Dew would have been absolutely stellar!

[jimboston]

It’s the sugar you feel... or high fructose corn syrup, basically sugar. If you haven’t had a lot of sugar all day... then you can probably feel the sugar as your body processes it pretty quickly. If you feel it immediately there may be some Pavlovian Reaction to the taste that tells your body “sugar is coming, get ready”.

I think the regular Mountain Dew tastes pretty close to the way it tasted in the 70’ and 80’s in the States/New England. I can’t tell a difference. I’m more of a cola guy and prefer Coke but will go to Pepsi.

Cole cans and bottles all taste the same, but in the 70’s (and maybe into the 80’s) there were some restaurants that mixed Fountain Soda’s the old fashioned way... where they’d put in soda water or seltzer water, and then pump in the syrup, and stir it with a spoon. I’d guess there are still places that do this, but not that I know of around where I live. These (in my memory) always seemed to taste better, as I think they’d put a slightly higher ration of syrup to seltzer. Those self-service soda dispensers emulate this... but the ration is pre-determine in the machine settings. Some of these are OK, McDonalds is pretty good, but some places always seem to have the ratios too low so you get watered-down soda... this is especially common (IMHO) in the newer dispensers that have like 500 flavors, and it all comes from one fountain head. There’s one movie chain out here that switched to those systems and it annoys me.

I agree soda should be a “treat” but I sometimes fall into traps where I drink it more regularly and then have to consciously give-it-up for a month to reset myself. As a kid I only got it as a treat, on weekend nights we’d get a bottle and chips for TV when my parents went out... of if I was out shopping with my mom and we stopped for lunch at one of the places with the good fountain soda. Dinners were always water or milk. Once I got a little older and I could start earning money... mowing lawns, leaves, shoveling snow, newspaper sales, etc... and then eventually part-time after school jobs... then I had easy access to candy and soda and chips. It was a main motivator to earn $$$. That and comic books.So consumption was more regular and less “as a treat”. It can definitely through off a body’s system and ability to properly process carbs.