The funny thing is that here in Canada, Mountain Dew has the same flavour and sugar, but no caffeine. Has to do with an law that prohibits caffeine in fruit flavoured beverages. The same laws also cover falsely implying the presence of vitamins or nutritional value unless it actually meets certain minimums.
I am old enough to remember when it first came out. A classmate was drinking it and told me it reminded her of a Shirley Temple (which is odd considering a Shirley Temple is basically Cherry 7up with a different kind of cherry flavor). I loved it and grabbed it when it was on sale. Nowadays I drink the Zero Sugar version sometimes if I want a break from Zero Sugar Dr. Pepper.
@tradne85 I remember being with a friend at a festival and they had them available in 20 oz to buy and I first was like "a Red mountain dew? That's as strange as first seeing Red kryptonite" but it was the best thing I've ever tasted at the time. Then a few months later we went bowling and I think it was if you get 3 or 6 strikes in a row you can get a free 2 liter as they had og and Code Red 2 liters and we just decided to take 1 Code Red per strike we got and left with maybe 6 or 8 2 liters each lol
If ever there was an episode where we could see what happens after the shoot, this is it. I need to know how Dermot felt 10, 20, 30 minutes, an hour and 3 hours after he left the studio.
Try veterans who are always clear-eyed after shots of high proof distilled spirits, but give them a few cans of mountain dew and they go completely unhinged 😂
Forget alcohol. Sugar and caffeine send these people into orbit. Good thing Callianne wasn't in this shoot. Windows for blocks around would be shattered.
New channel concept. I (Southern American) simply take Dermot around the US and film him experiencing things that American children don't even blink twice about lol
A secret I taught my kids last year, Baja Blast is just the original Mt. Dew with a splash of blue Powerade. So if you ever go to a fountain drink and it's Pepsi, you can always make it.
Yes, it was intended to be 'mix' for shine and other 'spirits.' Some say the original recipe is buried deep in the hills of Appalachia guarded by a shine-distilling clan. To be clear, what you get in the US is different than what you get in 'Europe'. Maybe for reasons. IMO, the other flavors are an abomination. Some would say that MD is an abomination. I have no time for such trifling. Just uncork that bottle over there, you know, that one, without the label, and let's have another.....
@Macfeste....well, Tarantino was born here (UT hospital) and largely raised here, so that makes sense. Samuel L. Jackson wasn't born in East TN, but he was raised in Chattanooga, I believe.
Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s. Soft drinks were sold regionally in the 1930s, and the Hartmans had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so the two developed their own. Originally a 19th-century slang term for whiskey, especially Highland Scotch whisky, the Mountain Dew name was trademarked for the soft drink in 1948.
I love how Dermot gets all bug-eyed. Evidently Dermot being bug-eyed is a result of either the Mountain Dew or three lines of cocaine, perhaps both at once.
Baja Blast is normally an exclusive at Taco Bell, they occasionally gift us it in cans, but for the 20th anniversary they brought it out in cans for the whole year.
Baja blast was Taco Bell and Walmart, now it's available all the time at Meijer and Kroger too. My favorite was Thrashed Apple Mountain Dew that was only available at Kroger.
14:25 That whole exchange was hysterical. She sings a song about flavors. He joins but lists off a bunch of colors "Those aren't flavors those are shapes" Those are definitely colors not shapes lol.
I wish that at least one of them knew the cultural significance of Baja Blast in comparison to the other variations. Also surprised Code Red wasn't included.
lol, decades ago I hosted a young lady from Germany. On her first weekend here, we came back to where my mom lived, and my niece invited her to join a group of friends who were having a very innocent film marathon. The next day, when Alisa brought Fanny back to my mom's place, Fanny was "a little" hyper. I asked her what they had been drinking, and she rushed to assure me it wasn't alcoholic, just "some sort of weird bright green carbonated drink that she got 'used to' over the course of the evening." I told her then that Mountain Dew has more caffeine per milliliter than coffee!
You can tell the Irish don't consume a lot of sugar. However many grams of sugar they drank, is probably the equivalent of an American breakfast. That was probably their sugar intake for one year.😊
Now they have to try Mountain Dew's often forgotten sister, Dr. Enuf. Both were bottled and sold by Tri-City Beverage in Johnson City, Tennessee, but Mountain Dew was sold to The Tip Corporation who was then bought out by Pepsi. Pepsi changed the formula and branding so much that it's almost nothing like the original. Dr. Enuf, originally marketed as a "hangover cure" (Dew was the chaser, the Dr. was the cure) stayed more true to its roots. Still rich in B vitamins, and has a "herbal" variety with ginseng and guarana. Still uses pure cane sugar instead of HFCS, and is still bottled in recycled glass instead of plastic and aluminum cans. It's the closest thing to the original Mtn Dew formula that you can still buy today. (Can y'all tell I really like this stuff? LOL) Also, fun fact: The inventor of Dr. Enuf, William Mark Swartz is the father of Robert Swartz who created Coherent (a Unix clone OS), and Robert is the father of Aaron Swartz who cofounded Reddit and whos life had a bit of a tragic ending.
Aaron did not kill himself, the government killed him via prosecutorial overreach for speaking the truth. "Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost. That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable. “I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal - there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back. Those with access to these resources - students, librarians, scientists - you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not - indeed, morally, you cannot - keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends. Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends. But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies. There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access. With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?" - Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy
OMG, yes - can confirm Dr. Enuf is top-tier; got family in Elizabethton and every time my family went east to visit, we always made sure to get some Dr. Enuf to bring back home; and for on the road too, of course.
From some of the reactions I have to wonder if each pair got a fully fizzed sample, or if the can sat open between sessions. Mt. Dew in a glass bottle makes the best 15 minute freezer slush when opened.
@@johngalt97 I am only ASSUMING because they are drinking out of cans they must have a 12 pack because I don't think you can get the crazy flavors as singles unless they're bottled?
@@johngalt97 You unlocked a core memory for me. Dad and I stopped by a gas station on our way home from riding dirt bikes, and the soda machine dropped a slightly frozen Mt. Dew. That was over 48 years ago and I remember it was the best can of pop I've ever had.
Just imagine the epic CRASH that Dermot and Nicole are going to have on their way back home from this shoot! LOL. Those two were having so much fun it picked me up from a down mood! Thanks to all the TRYers for keeping the laughter going all these years!
I've drank Mountain Dew ever since it went nationwide in the US, at the end of 1964. It used to have cartoon pictures of Willy the Hillbilly on the bottles, along with the slogan, "It'll tickle yore innards!" It's been tickling mine for 60 years. In honor of the TRYers, I just opened a new bottle and have it on my computer desk at this moment. As they used to say, on the early TV commercials, "Wa-hoo, Mountain Dew!" YEE-HAW! 😉
These videos are always interesting to me as an American because, I didn't realize there were this many different kinds of Mountain Dew. But if you asked me, there's really only three different kinds of Mountain dew: Regular, Baja Blast, and Code Red.
This was the best Try video I've seen in over a year. If you want more great content, all you need to do is get your Tryers hopped up on sugar and Caffeine.
I NEVER comment, but Dermot and Nicole are a match made in heaven. If either or both want to come to Colorado and drink whiskey with me.... I'll be waiting.... omg ❤
Add Vodka. Code Red built the Internet late 90’s early 00’s. If we could have pushed it via IV, we would have. Baja Blast at Taco Bell, the frozen Icee version is AMAZING. Edit: made it to the end, I think they’re drunker on caffeine than they’ve been on any alcohol video.
After 50 years of drinking Dew I must be immune to it , never have I had a reaction like this . Too bad that they didn't get to try the original Moutain Dew , this stuff is made with corn syrup , it used to be made with real sugar , but that Dew is hard to find anymore .
It's funny seeing people from other countries react this way. In America, we grew up drinking these and even stronger energy drinks like Monster, NOS, and Rockstar. We also don't have the same caffeine restrictions as in the EU so it's definitely interesting to see just how different the tolerance levels to caffeine are.
13:10 My oldest and I came to the conclusion that after much testing and research, Liberty Chill is exactly what the color blue would actually taste like if colors had taste. You can not pinpoint a single flavor profile, but all together, it tastes like blue looks.
When they used to sell Mt. Dew in 12 ounce glass bottles, sometimes they would have a message on it. The message would say something like 'Bottled by Zeke'.
What needed to be said is the history of Mountain Dew. It was originally made to be a Whiskey Mixer! "The Hartman brothers, Barney and Ally, created Mountain Dew in the 1940s as a mixer for liquor, especially whiskey. The name "Mountain Dew" comes from a 19th-century slang term for whiskey, particularly Highland Scotch" So what we need now is them having different Mountain Dews as mixers for different Whiskeys!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN....(0.o)
@@davewhitmore1958 Could you imagine the shaking and all the happy little accidents from the caffeine, and then the loss of focus from the sugar crash?! 😂😂😂
I'm sure the info is here somewhere, but incase it isn't seen yet. Mountain Dew was the original slang for moonshine corn liquor, and this soda was made to be a whiskey/moonshine mixer drink to dilute the alcohol. Might be worth the TRY
To be fair, a can of Dew has 54mg of caffeine, a cup of black coffee has 35mg. Shouldn't have put so much in the cups, but I'm glad you did. edit: popsfereal is correct, coffee is 95mg per 8oz, I was mistaken, I was told that it was less than Dew but I can't find evidence of that.
my search said "80 - 100 mg per 8 ounce coffee" (236 ml) and we are talking about 12 ounce cans (354 ml) of mountain dew. plus they were drinking half a can or less each.. so honestly not that bad. so, if they had actually finished all 5 glasses, it would be about 27mg (half a can) times 5, for 135 mg, probably less then most peoples actual coffee, because who the heck drinks only 8 ounces?? mine are in 20 - 24 ounce cups (iced coffee though) they also did a shoot "Irish people TRY caffeine" where they actually had a lot more caffeine... including caffeine pills, i think gum, and others. honestly half of their excitement / hyperness is psycho sematic... half caffeine, and half sugar (technically high fructose) so, there, mtn dew is magic, it has 3 halves.
Now imagine their reaction when they learn that the original Mountain Dew flavor was meant to be used as a mixer for hard liquor. Sounds like the basis for another video, honestly.
As a huge Dewficionado, this was entertaining in the best ways and I love that you did the theme of getting all three “patriotic” limited time flavors in addition three of the classic staples. If ya Dew a part 2…gotta recommend Livewire, Code Red, or any of the many other seasonal releases such as Game Fuel or VooDEW!
I knew someone in the Midwest who said she was addicted to it. She didn't drink coffee, but she would drive around town in the morning, trying to find a vending machine that had Mountain Dew, so she could have one on her way to work😮
@DravenGal 🤷🏻♀️ she was weird. ... I rented there 2 nights a week. They were renting themselves. The other guy who was renting from them would wait until I got back from work at 8 PM. and say, "let's go outside for a smoke." This was Wisconsin winter. I didn't want to put my boots and coat on again. But when he said, "let's go out for a smoke" or "let's go to crunchy kitchen", I knew something really strange had happened over the weekend and he needed to talk about it. 🤣🤣This guy and I would never have met in any other circumstances, our worlds would not have collided at all. Who knows?Maybe she was just afraid that she would go through it all.
I have the slightest secret little crush on Paddy and Dermot-shh, please don't tell anyone, though! 😊🤫 But anyway, I only wish I could visit Ireland and have the pure pleasure of hanging out with any one of these amazing people-they truly seem like my kind of people! All my love, from IL, USA 🇮🇪♥️♾️🇺🇸
I mean, 12:33 is right in the money. A LOT of people with ADHD use Mnt. Dew/soda as a self-medicating solution bc the caffeine/sugar helps with their brain.
The Jennifer Coolidge impression was spot on 👌 "It makes me want a hot dog, real bad" 😅
She should have followed it up with "dumbass". LOL😂
omg, yes!
I died 😂
@3:45 it was brilliant!
Thank you. I was trying to figure out why it sounded so familiar and that's it, right there.😂
Irish folk with the zoomies! I didn't know just how much I needed this!!😂
The funny thing is that here in Canada, Mountain Dew has the same flavour and sugar, but no caffeine. Has to do with an law that prohibits caffeine in fruit flavoured beverages. The same laws also cover falsely implying the presence of vitamins or nutritional value unless it actually meets certain minimums.
No Code Red? It's cherry citrus. My favorite.
Code Red is without a doubt the best flavor of Mtn Dew.
I am old enough to remember when it first came out. A classmate was drinking it and told me it reminded her of a Shirley Temple (which is odd considering a Shirley Temple is basically Cherry 7up with a different kind of cherry flavor). I loved it and grabbed it when it was on sale.
Nowadays I drink the Zero Sugar version sometimes if I want a break from Zero Sugar Dr. Pepper.
Definitely!!! It's soooo cool and crisp with just the right amount of sweetness. It is liquid crack and I am addict.😁
@tradne85 I remember being with a friend at a festival and they had them available in 20 oz to buy and I first was like "a Red mountain dew? That's as strange as first seeing Red kryptonite" but it was the best thing I've ever tasted at the time. Then a few months later we went bowling and I think it was if you get 3 or 6 strikes in a row you can get a free 2 liter as they had og and Code Red 2 liters and we just decided to take 1 Code Red per strike we got and left with maybe 6 or 8 2 liters each lol
original & code red are amazing. 🎉
If ever there was an episode where we could see what happens after the shoot, this is it. I need to know how Dermot felt 10, 20, 30 minutes, an hour and 3 hours after he left the studio.
Omg non caffeine addicted ppl crash so hard. Lmao
Try veterans who are always clear-eyed after shots of high proof distilled spirits, but give them a few cans of mountain dew and they go completely unhinged 😂
As Irish they're used to da booze but not da sugar and caffeine 🫤
We miss Ciara with these... caffine is so much more effective.
Nah we drink a can of rip it
@@davewhitmore1958 lightweights 🤣🤣
@@scottyi88 "A can" No, there's no just drinking A can. We drink many cans
The Livewire Orange and Pitch Black (Grape) are wonderful. Dew is highly caffeinated, so I can understand "my veins are vibrating"
I'm surprised they didn't do Code Red. Dermot might have actually achieved exit velocity after that one!
Agreed though they changed something with Pitch Black and the original version was better imo.
There's pitch black and pitch black 2. One of them is a sour grape.
Meanwhile people over here drinking energy drinks with literally 5 times the caffeine content. 😅
Back in the day, Halloween 2004 the Pitch Black was made with I believe concord grapes and was my favorite version.
Yes, Colin, I appreciate how much work that lip-synch gag was.
That was _class_ !
Agreed
That was literally so good I paused it, got the link at current time, and made my partner watch it so I could watch her reaction...
That's the reason I upvoted this.
"Off their meds and on the dew"... love it! 😁
As an American, I had to google what histrionic means. Stop using so many syllables around us simple folk.
"those arn't flavours, those are shapes" made me exhale out my nose more than I should have.
I’m smelling colors
So did her "50 Different Flavors" dance ... 😳😇
@@jsimes1 I'd love to see that again, but with fewer pesky garments 😉
@@jsimes1there was... quite a bit of jiggle there....
Nicole's american accent was GOLD!!!
Forget alcohol. Sugar and caffeine send these people into orbit. Good thing Callianne wasn't in this shoot. Windows for blocks around would be shattered.
Oh my lord! Good point.
I can definitely see that 😂
Agreed! 👍
She would be going at the speed of Mach F**k! She'd be able to intercept the F-22.
Because they’re Irish, they’re used to metabolizing alcohol, whereas we Americans run on artificial preservatives, caffeine and pure fake sugar
New channel concept. I (Southern American) simply take Dermot around the US and film him experiencing things that American children don't even blink twice about lol
Watching Dermont on a Caffeine high was one of the best things i have seen in along time, very entertaining. Try Channel always delivers.
I'd love to see him do an alcohol shoot right after. He was flying.
I want to hand him a reeses just to piss him off xD
Oh I forgot about the caffeine in it I was just thinking about the sugar. Double whammy there
A secret I taught my kids last year, Baja Blast is just the original Mt. Dew with a splash of blue Powerade. So if you ever go to a fountain drink and it's Pepsi, you can always make it.
Fun fact, Mtn Dew was originally made to drink with moonshine.
Whiskey. It was originally a mixer for whiskey. Mt. Dew is a nickname for moonshine, though.
It is good that way with lots of ice.
Yes, it was intended to be 'mix' for shine and other 'spirits.' Some say the original recipe is buried deep in the hills of Appalachia guarded by a shine-distilling clan.
To be clear, what you get in the US is different than what you get in 'Europe'. Maybe for reasons.
IMO, the other flavors are an abomination. Some would say that MD is an abomination. I have no time for such trifling. Just uncork that bottle over there, you know, that one, without the label, and let's have another.....
Mountain Dew and Makers Mark work pretty well.
Not surprised, the basic one is great with vodka..
Nicole is ALWAYS a joy to see! The love of my life!
@@allthingsmusic- and showing her impressionist skills too
Mountain Dew is actually from the Appalachian Mtns. Created in Knoxville, TN. The original building still stands as a home appliance repair shop
Knoxvillian here! That's one of our claims to fame! That and Quentin Tarentino having clerked at a video store when he was younger.
Originally meant for mixing with whiskey.
@@davidkomen5283 Yep, was a mixer.
@Macfeste....well, Tarantino was born here (UT hospital) and largely raised here, so that makes sense. Samuel L. Jackson wasn't born in East TN, but he was raised in Chattanooga, I believe.
Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s. Soft drinks were sold regionally in the 1930s, and the Hartmans had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so the two developed their own. Originally a 19th-century slang term for whiskey, especially Highland Scotch whisky, the Mountain Dew name was trademarked for the soft drink in 1948.
Baja Blast is really good mixed with coconut rum.
I love how Dermot gets all bug-eyed. Evidently Dermot being bug-eyed is a result of either the Mountain Dew or three lines of cocaine, perhaps both at once.
With Mountain Dew, you don't need coke!😂
You shouldn't mix cocaine with your Mountain Dew. It is bad for your heart. I am a Floridian, we know these things.
@@Aikibiker1 I don't do either one. I'm also from Florida.
Y'all needed to try Pitch Black and White Out!!
Baja Blast is normally an exclusive at Taco Bell, they occasionally gift us it in cans, but for the 20th anniversary they brought it out in cans for the whole year.
Baja blast was Taco Bell and Walmart, now it's available all the time at Meijer and Kroger too. My favorite was Thrashed Apple Mountain Dew that was only available at Kroger.
@@furbysmith3240 "Thrashed Apple" *laugh*!! -Great name!
Pitch Black is the GOAT Mt Dew.
@@gorgejung307 Agreed. Pitch black or the Halo one
My favorite was White Out and the OG flavor. Baja Blast is awful and taste like how bubble bath smells lol.
14:25 That whole exchange was hysterical.
She sings a song about flavors.
He joins but lists off a bunch of colors
"Those aren't flavors those are shapes"
Those are definitely colors not shapes lol.
I wish that at least one of them knew the cultural significance of Baja Blast in comparison to the other variations. Also surprised Code Red wasn't included.
Code Red was a glaring omission, but maybe it wasn't available to them.
Code red is the only flavor worth drinking
throwback the original is the best.
Baha blast is disgusting. It taste like bubble bath smells.
Code Red has just a little too much caffine to be legal.
That was really funny guys! Mountain Dew has always been my favorite! ❤ from North Carolina!
OMG HILARIOUS😂😂
Dermot and Nicole high as kites on Mt Dew is apparently just what I needed for my Wednesday.
7:01 Oh, Paddy. What are you doing?
Mad RESPECT to Nicole for getting Jolly Rancher from Dermott' s Mad rambling about rocky road 👍👍👍👍👍
Yeah, I had no idea where he was going with that.
This was my favorite try of all time. I can't wait for them to try the rest of the different Mountain Dews
I don't know what I like more, them being drunk or them high on caffeine
And sugar.
The caffeine and sugar are more fun to watch.. 😂
@@shiliela_rhymes_with_delilah I don't know, ShellyLaw. Let's have them do both at the same time and see what happens.
@@ronjones-6977 Who are you talking to? "ShellyLaw"?
Have them do a Jager Bomb shoot (or maybe scrounge up some original recipe Four Loko's) and we can see both at the same time!
paddy is a national treasure of ireland
This channel feels like a break from the chaos. So simple, but puts you in a better mood.
Tryers tasting shapes. Hehe hehThanks guys.
This channel is my drug of choice 😎
lol, decades ago I hosted a young lady from Germany. On her first weekend here, we came back to where my mom lived, and my niece invited her to join a group of friends who were having a very innocent film marathon. The next day, when Alisa brought Fanny back to my mom's place, Fanny was "a little" hyper. I asked her what they had been drinking, and she rushed to assure me it wasn't alcoholic, just "some sort of weird bright green carbonated drink that she got 'used to' over the course of the evening." I told her then that Mountain Dew has more caffeine per milliliter than coffee!
Dermot, the way I was yelling “jolly ranchers” at my phone like you could hear me 😂😂
You can tell the Irish don't consume a lot of sugar. However many grams of sugar they drank, is probably the equivalent of an American breakfast. That was probably their sugar intake for one year.😊
Forgot Code Red!
Now Mix Them All!
Mountain Dew suicide
Code Red, Pitch Black, and Flaming mixed would be a good way to go, but your corpse would reanimate from the sugar alone.
Also forgot Livewire, if we’re talking permanent flavors.
@@DeadInside-ew8qb Dewicide?
I wanna know how they would handle Livewire and Pitch Black
Dissapointed there was no Code Red... So classic 😂
Nicole is always on-point but she was EXTRA SHARP in this video. Pure greatness 😂
Now they have to try Mountain Dew's often forgotten sister, Dr. Enuf. Both were bottled and sold by Tri-City Beverage in Johnson City, Tennessee, but Mountain Dew was sold to The Tip Corporation who was then bought out by Pepsi. Pepsi changed the formula and branding so much that it's almost nothing like the original. Dr. Enuf, originally marketed as a "hangover cure" (Dew was the chaser, the Dr. was the cure) stayed more true to its roots. Still rich in B vitamins, and has a "herbal" variety with ginseng and guarana. Still uses pure cane sugar instead of HFCS, and is still bottled in recycled glass instead of plastic and aluminum cans. It's the closest thing to the original Mtn Dew formula that you can still buy today. (Can y'all tell I really like this stuff? LOL)
Also, fun fact:
The inventor of Dr. Enuf, William Mark Swartz is the father of Robert Swartz who created Coherent (a Unix clone OS), and Robert is the father of Aaron Swartz who cofounded Reddit and whos life had a bit of a tragic ending.
Aaron did not kill himself, the government killed him via prosecutorial overreach for speaking the truth.
"Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.
That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It’s outrageous and unacceptable.
“I agree,” many say, “but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it’s perfectly legal - there’s nothing we can do to stop them.” But there is something we can, something that’s already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources - students, librarians, scientists - you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not - indeed, morally, you cannot - keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?" - Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy
OMG, yes - can confirm Dr. Enuf is top-tier; got family in Elizabethton and every time my family went east to visit, we always made sure to get some Dr. Enuf to bring back home; and for on the road too, of course.
Did you know that American soda pop is designed to taste its best when it's cold?
From some of the reactions I have to wonder if each pair got a fully fizzed sample, or if the can sat open between sessions.
Mt. Dew in a glass bottle makes the best 15 minute freezer slush when opened.
And it has a more intense flavor that works better with lots of ice, which I believe is mostly an American thing.
@@johngalt97 I am only ASSUMING because they are drinking out of cans they must have a 12 pack because I don't think you can get the crazy flavors as singles unless they're bottled?
@@johngalt97 You unlocked a core memory for me. Dad and I stopped by a gas station on our way home from riding dirt bikes, and the soda machine dropped a slightly frozen Mt. Dew. That was over 48 years ago and I remember it was the best can of pop I've ever had.
I Dew wish they had tried it over ice!
Dang, you all didn't find Livewire and Code Red? You are missing out.
Just imagine the epic CRASH that Dermot and Nicole are going to have on their way back home from this shoot! LOL. Those two were having so much fun it picked me up from a down mood! Thanks to all the TRYers for keeping the laughter going all these years!
Lol, well, according to my son, who randomly says things like "this tastes like it should be purple" those "shapes" ARE flavors😉😂
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I've drank Mountain Dew ever since it went nationwide in the US, at the end of 1964. It used to have cartoon pictures of Willy the Hillbilly on the bottles, along with the slogan, "It'll tickle yore innards!" It's been tickling mine for 60 years. In honor of the TRYers, I just opened a new bottle and have it on my computer desk at this moment. As they used to say, on the early TV commercials, "Wa-hoo, Mountain Dew!" YEE-HAW! 😉
I also am old enough to remember the hillbilly log.. I even saw it on a billboard in the Ozarks area of Missouri traveling through in 1974
These videos are always interesting to me as an American because, I didn't realize there were this many different kinds of Mountain Dew. But if you asked me, there's really only three different kinds of Mountain dew: Regular, Baja Blast, and Code Red.
This was the best Try video I've seen in over a year. If you want more great content, all you need to do is get your Tryers hopped up on sugar and Caffeine.
Or....three lines for Dermot. He seems to be open to either.
@@ronjones-6977 I love a flexible fellow 😋
OMG it is so awesome to see all of them getting "cracked out" on all the dew they are drinking!!! LOL Love you guys!
I NEVER comment, but Dermot and Nicole are a match made in heaven. If either or both want to come to Colorado and drink whiskey with me.... I'll be waiting.... omg ❤
I’m not Dermot or Nicole but I’ll come to Co for some Whiskey :)
@@emilywilhite5807Dew it!
It's amazing that they are in 3 different groups, and they are all buzzing to some degree. I love it. The power of caffeine.
Add Vodka.
Code Red built the Internet late 90’s early 00’s. If we could have pushed it via IV, we would have.
Baja Blast at Taco Bell, the frozen Icee version is AMAZING.
Edit: made it to the end, I think they’re drunker on caffeine than they’ve been on any alcohol video.
@@LM-id1bbgood lord, the volume of Red Bull & Vokda fueled coding all nighters I had is uncountable. That was really my “evening drink”. 😂
Taco bell does it right!
@@willowsverge3046 that Baja Blast is like scary good. But dancing on that edge of the right amount of brain freeze is difficult.
After 50 years of drinking Dew I must be immune to it , never have I had a reaction like this . Too bad that they didn't get to try the original Moutain Dew , this stuff is made with corn syrup , it used to be made with real sugar , but that Dew is hard to find anymore .
@@c1ph3rpunk My all nighters were done on force of will alone. Sportdeath was a thing.
It's funny seeing people from other countries react this way. In America, we grew up drinking these and even stronger energy drinks like Monster, NOS, and Rockstar. We also don't have the same caffeine restrictions as in the EU so it's definitely interesting to see just how different the tolerance levels to caffeine are.
I fear for Dermot if he ever tries Jolt Cola.
For extra fun give him a Jumper Cable, Jolt Cola and 151 Rum.
Like Roger Rabbit on whiskey
Surge
I miss jolt cola. I loved the grape one they had called white lightning.
No Code Red? After the original that one is probably the most popular.
Paddy's epic belch put anything Lolsy could do to shame. That was supreme.
13:10 My oldest and I came to the conclusion that after much testing and research, Liberty Chill is exactly what the color blue would actually taste like if colors had taste. You can not pinpoint a single flavor profile, but all together, it tastes like blue looks.
When they used to sell Mt. Dew in 12 ounce glass bottles, sometimes they would have a message on it. The message would say something like 'Bottled by Zeke'.
They also tasted a million times better
What needed to be said is the history of Mountain Dew. It was originally made to be a Whiskey Mixer! "The Hartman brothers, Barney and Ally, created Mountain Dew in the 1940s as a mixer for liquor, especially whiskey. The name "Mountain Dew" comes from a 19th-century slang term for whiskey, particularly Highland Scotch" So what we need now is them having different Mountain Dews as mixers for different Whiskeys!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN....(0.o)
I'm looking forward to the follow up video of Irish People Try to Survive a Mountain Dew Hangover.
_NOW_ they should try a Bob Ross tutorial 🤣🤣🤣
@@davewhitmore1958 That would be fun!
@@davewhitmore1958 Could you imagine the shaking and all the happy little accidents from the caffeine, and then the loss of focus from the sugar crash?! 😂😂😂
I'm sure the info is here somewhere, but incase it isn't seen yet. Mountain Dew was the original slang for moonshine corn liquor, and this soda was made to be a whiskey/moonshine mixer drink to dilute the alcohol. Might be worth the TRY
Seriously! No Code Red?
Also, Livewire.
"Why does it taste like skin?". 🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️
“How do you know how skin tastes?”
Do you realize that this is the inspiration for “Slurm” in Futurama?
Actually that would be surge by the Coca-Cola Company that was the inspiration for the Futurama slurm
@ Sounds right. It’s like the Coke Pepsi arms treaty that says for every product you make I will make a Doppelgänger.
Now that there’s a HARD version of Mountain Dew, I hope they try that one so we get to see them orbiting fu*king Saturn!
Star-Spangled Splash tastes like FREEDOM and EXPENSIVE HEALTH CARE
"Come for the sugar and caffeine. Stay for the hopeless medical debt!"
😂😂😂
The freedom to be sick and poor.
0:46 - actually Mt Dew was not developed by Pepsi but was bought.
And Mtn Dew was invented and made in Georgia.
The original wasn't but all the flavors were developed by Pepsi.
I think they were funnier on this than on alcohol!
dude. I'm over 50 years old, and Baja Blast is by far and away my favorite soda of all time.
To be fair, a can of Dew has 54mg of caffeine, a cup of black coffee has 35mg. Shouldn't have put so much in the cups, but I'm glad you did.
edit: popsfereal is correct, coffee is 95mg per 8oz, I was mistaken, I was told that it was less than Dew but I can't find evidence of that.
Dermot is going to crash after the caffeine wears off.😂😂😂
try...65-95mg in coffee.
@ You’re correct I’m not sure where I got 35 from. I had always heard it was more in Dew but I guess not.
They should be told that they’re overdosing on caffeine.
my search said "80 - 100 mg per 8 ounce coffee" (236 ml) and we are talking about 12 ounce cans (354 ml) of mountain dew. plus they were drinking half a can or less each.. so honestly not that bad. so, if they had actually finished all 5 glasses, it would be about 27mg (half a can) times 5, for 135 mg, probably less then most peoples actual coffee, because who the heck drinks only 8 ounces?? mine are in 20 - 24 ounce cups (iced coffee though)
they also did a shoot "Irish people TRY caffeine" where they actually had a lot more caffeine... including caffeine pills, i think gum, and others.
honestly half of their excitement / hyperness is psycho sematic... half caffeine, and half sugar (technically high fructose) so, there, mtn dew is magic, it has 3 halves.
Now imagine their reaction when they learn that the original Mountain Dew flavor was meant to be used as a mixer for hard liquor.
Sounds like the basis for another video, honestly.
Dermot was truly buzzing His behaviour was off the chart 😂
That's DMF! for ya!
What a fantastic combo of tryers! I ADORE Aidan and Dermot! Of course all of em too 🥰
The shared wince of Dermot and Nicole followed by "that tastes like America" speaks volumes!
Yeah, nobody Likes us until they Need Us
@@markbrecher4914 Due to the last couple of years, now they don't even like us if they need us.
As a huge Dewficionado, this was entertaining in the best ways and I love that you did the theme of getting all three “patriotic” limited time flavors in addition three of the classic staples.
If ya Dew a part 2…gotta recommend Livewire, Code Red, or any of the many other seasonal releases such as Game Fuel or VooDEW!
3:44 Stifler's Mom is a Legend!
YES!
I actually like Jennifer the most in 2 Broke Girls 5 years of faux-Polish hilarity
As someone who drinks dew on a regular basis the two best flavors are the original and the first release of pitch black ❤
Fun fact, Mountain Dew has 54 milligrams of caffeine while Pepsi has 39 milligrams.
I knew someone in the Midwest who said she was addicted to it. She didn't drink coffee, but she would drive around town in the morning, trying to find a vending machine that had Mountain Dew, so she could have one on her way to work😮
What about Dr. Pepper? I hear that one is really high too! Or used to be.
@@LindaC616Um...is there a reason she didn't just keep some in her fridge?
To be fair, before 2022, a Pepsi Zero (formerly known as Pepsi Max) 12 oz cans had 69 mg of caffeine. I was totally addicted to it
@DravenGal 🤷🏻♀️ she was weird. ... I rented there 2 nights a week. They were renting themselves. The other guy who was renting from them would wait until I got back from work at 8 PM. and say, "let's go outside for a smoke." This was Wisconsin winter. I didn't want to put my boots and coat on again. But when he said, "let's go out for a smoke" or "let's go to crunchy kitchen", I knew something really strange had happened over the weekend and he needed to talk about it. 🤣🤣This guy and I would never have met in any other circumstances, our worlds would not have collided at all.
Who knows?Maybe she was just afraid that she would go through it all.
I have genuinely NEVER been more heard and seen than this, im so ecstatic you guys liked it!!❤❤
The first ingredient is orange juice, so it has to be good for you.
By far the funniest video they have ever put out… thank you for the laughs
You can visibly see them getting faster and more giggly 🤣🧡✨
Americans live off of the Dew.
AMERICAN BODY FUEL ⛽🔥
omg the soda without ice... i american cant
You were almost there...
Mountain Dew cold? Yes. With ice, noooo... The ice dilutes the essence of mtdew. 🤣
Paddy and Dermott should have their own show
Funniest people on this channel
Thank You, Colin, You've made my day :D
I have the slightest secret little crush on Paddy and Dermot-shh, please don't tell anyone, though! 😊🤫
But anyway, I only wish I could visit Ireland and have the pure pleasure of hanging out with any one of these amazing people-they truly seem like my kind of people!
All my love, from IL, USA
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Good crew today, bunch of TRY veterans!!
I mean, 12:33 is right in the money. A LOT of people with ADHD use Mnt. Dew/soda as a self-medicating solution bc the caffeine/sugar helps with their brain.
I'm old enough to remember when this stuff FIRST CAME OUT. I had it in a green glass bottle with the old hillbilly logo on it.
Wa-hoo Mountain Dew!
My dew came out in the 40’s. How old are you?
Invented in 1940. Revised in 1958. You sure are old. 🤔
And made with REAL sugar.
And the hillbilly said, 'it'll tickle yer innards!'
3:45 the Jennifer Coolidge impression was top tier 🤣
When I was in law school in the late 80s, people drank Mountain Dew because of the outrageous amount of caffeine in it.
Jolt cola was my college poison.
@zippymacadoo6336 I hate to admit that Jolt cola got me through college, back when there wasn't any Red Bull invented.
Paddy, the burp wasn’t rude, you were just saving wear and tear on your ass!
Ummm, did anyone educate them about the caffeine content in the Dew? These people may be up for days.
BLA AND NICOLE ARE PERFECT BOTH OF THEM
😂😂😂😂😂 It took y'all less time than I thought to start buzzing off the caffeine! 😂 LOVED the lip-synch part. One of the funniest shoots so far.
you guys broke Dermot. dude probably slept for 3 days after his dew hangover.
Dermot was most affected by the caffeine in a Dew ... and I have to agree with Bla (which I always do anyway) that Dew is too sweet. So is Bla.
I switched to Diet Dew over ten years ago and cannot stand regular Dew now. I can't believe I used to drink that stuff.
3:46 Nicole's J-Cool impression is spot-on!!! 👏👏👏👏
You are all JACKED UP ON MOUNTAIN DEW!!!! WOOHOO!!!
Pepsi didn’t invent Mtn Dew. It was invented in Tennessee in 1940. Pepsi bought the brand in 1964.
Please please please do this same episode again with all other tryers!!! This was the best shoot ever! Omg! Hilarious. Love y'all ❤😂
While no one was paying attention, Mountain Dew became an umbrella brand for every kind of fruit soda flavor imaginable.