Mountain Dew
On my other blog I have never gotten as many responses to a post as I did to my post on soda pop. That's right. Soda pop.
I decided my first entry here should be on one dimension of the soft drink universe, specifically the magical beverage known as Mountain Dew. I'm not going into alot of details - you don't need 'm I'm sure, but I am putting in some good stuff.
The homepage of Mountain Dew is okay, a little too "extreme" for my humble tastes, but such is life - it does, however, give us the official history of the yellow-green liquid. Arguably the best unofficial site, the site that will utterly drown you data and images, is MountainDewBottles.com, though the Mountain Dew Collector (home of the Dew Times) site ain't bad either.
Here's the MetroPulse history of the Dew, the urban legend about Dew's effect on man-potency, a blog entry which mentions the term "It'll Tickle Your Innards," a list of mixed drinks with the Dew at their core (76 at the time of posting), and a basic, cut and dried history of their ad campaigns.
Things to keep in mind? Names on bottles, the fact that this is a moonshine mixer, and the phrases "belly-washer" and "yahoo." Dig.
3 comments:
Good idea for a blog, Smith. Thanks for inviting me to be a part of it.
Of course, In Kentucky Appalachia, what we love to drink is Ale 8...
When I was 13, I flew on a plane to California, leaving eastern NC for the first time. When the stewardess asked me what I wanted to drink, I asked her what they had. "Oh, just about anything," she said. So I ordered a Mountain Dew. "We don't have anything THAT exotic!" she huffed. I was completely confused. I thought that Mountain Dew was everywhere. It wasn't until later that I knew that it was a regional soft drink at that time.
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