![]() ![]() Whether it was getting amped up on caffeine so much that you said, “Fuck it, I’ll just jump from the top of this tree I just climbed this cocaine, I mean Mountain Dew, is amazing I’m going to live forever!” at the age of 9 or it was that time you decided to go to Taco Bell to get an extra-large Baja Blast half-filled with vodka before your first public intoxication ticket at the age of 14, there are a variety of ways that the super charged energy boost that is Mountain Dew shaped your formative years for better or worse. ![]() One way or another, we all grew up with Mountain Dew probably framing at least one or two bad decisions in our lives. The Worst Mountain Dew Flavors of All Time Some of them are good (looking at you, Code Red). While you know it as a “citrus” flavored soft drink, and it lists concentrated orange juice as one of its flavors, it’s basically just sugar and caffeine with a hint of “dorm cafeteria OJ” flavor to it.Īnd while “the potent combination of a sugar high with a caffeine buzz” is a good enough combination to help Mountain Dew corner 80% of the citrus-flavored pop market, in our age of American ingenuity and overzealous marketing, a company can only rest comfortably on your laurels for so long selling just one kind of middle-school wake up juice, and ever since the 1980s Mountain Dew has been experimenting with a variety of flavors. Mountain Dew was first developed by Barney and Ally Hartman, who made it as a mixer and named it after a Scottish and Irish slang for “moonshine.” It was eventually bought out by PepsiCo in 1964, and the “hillbilly angle” was removed not too long after. It’ll tickle yore innards” and advertising itself to Hillbillies, it’s since gone on to be extremely popular among gamers, extreme sports fanatics, and sixth grade kids who view it as a caffeine-rich forbidden fruit, like speed that you can buy at the gas station on the way to tweeking out throughout your school day. Originally invented in 1940 in Tennessee with the we’re-honestly-not-kidding- here’s-a-commercial-for-it slogan of “Ya-Hoo! Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew has one of the more unique rises to popularity of any beverage that can be poured out of a tap without someone checking your ID first. “I am AMPED I am AMPED woah what if they made an energy called AMP and…wait I think my heart stopped, or…MOUNTAIN DEW WOO!”
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