Back in the mid 90s I would go to stay with my mom in Memphis during the summer. She would enter all those random giveaways at the grocery store and entered me in a Mt Dew one and totally forgot. I got a call one day while she was at work saying that I had won, but we didn't know what they were talking about and thought it was a scam. We drove to the address and it was a huge office building. They gave me a load of EXTREME Mt Dew gear including shirts, a windbreaker, a bag, but the big item was a custom Mt Dew skateboard. I wasn't interested in skating, so I took it to a shop and they gave me like $200 for it. That was pretty cool because I was like 13 or whatever, but I kind of wish I still had it now.
You and I may have passed each other a few times. I spent the summer in memphis\millington TN summer of 96, watching MTV (when it still played music "no doubt, Manson and green day were huge), I cut grass for money and bought nothing but sodas and gummy worms) and I was 12 so...maybe 👍
@@Dave-bj3pq nah man, Pepsi loves giving shit away. My old roommate and I drove to the beach on a whim one day and while fucking w the truckers over cb radio, met up w a Pepsi driver at a waffle house and he unloaded a ton of free shit on us and it was random af. Dudes telling the truth, at least I would assume so from my own experience
Hate to show my age, but one summer I collected as many mountain dew caps as could til I had enough to get the mtn dew pager mailed in and got a response along the lines that it wasn't offered in my area
I'm 63 years old. I remember as a 5 year old child riding with my grandad in his 1965 Chevy pickup to the general store for a pack of white owl cigars and a Sunday paper. Grandpa would always grab me a bottle of mountain dew from the cooler. We didn't drink a lot of soft drinks back them, so it was always a big treat when I got one. . . . Thanks for the memories grandpa.
I am 5 years behind you, butbthe experience was pretty much tge same. Didn't drink much soft drink, and it was a real treat to even share with siblings. Fond memories of a different time.
In my 20s i was working full time and full time at college. I drank probably 12 pack a day. I never drink it now. Entirely ti much sugar and caffeine for me.
They should just re-run the "tickle yer innards" ad from back in the day. It's perfect as is. I think companies should occasionally rerun vintage ads...I think it would be cool AND eye catching !
@@ericcrawford7207 it's hard to explain, but it shows how memories are formed, in 1966 I was 5 years old. The taste memory is tied to a specific time and location memory, the Commissary at Ft. Lewis Washington. The taste is more of an impression, but I can't pin it down in comparison to how it tastes today, but if there was a difference I would say that it's due to the use of real sugar instead of HFCS.
Back in high-school in the mid 90s, we would have bonfires on Friday nights. Everyone brought their own food and drink, but we would basically have a big tailgate party around a big campfire. I would bring a "cube" of Dew, (I can't remember now if it was 24 or 36 cans), and drink all of them myself. My friends all thought I was nuts and couldn't figure out why I wasn't pinging of the trucks like a pinball lol. I found out years later that I had ADHD and the caffeine was doing the opposite to me than it did to my friends.
Cubes have 24 cans, at least they do now. I think this drink is quite popular with ADHD people for that very reason, calms the nerves and focuses the mind like any other stimulant, and Mtn Dew has the most caffeine out of any other soda. I remember me and all my friends back in church youth group would drink the stuff like water. Not to mention, caffeine is incredibly addictive, like any other stimulant.
In India,.Dew's tagline is "Darr k aage jeet hai" which means Beyond Fear lies Victory and its a popular everyday phrase to use. Most of its ads always includes fun and cool stunts.
Does anyone remember when Mountain Dew did a survey amongst the public asking for a name for their apple flavor? The winning flavor name (before the survey was quickly taken down and limited to a select few chosen names) was "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong Mountain Dew" quickly followed in second place by "Gushing Granny Mountain Dew".... Very True Stories!
Due to family connections I had several bits of swag, including a real guitar, felt hillbilly hat, corncob pipe. It was so weird seeing it go "edgy" later.
11:36 For anyone freaking out about the acidity of the soft drink, remember the same is true of orange juice, which mountain dew contains. It is why a number of cleaners use orange juice. Lemon juice too is a popular choice too. The fact is lots of foods are quite aciditic and acidic tastes are one of the primary flavors you can taste.
Unless you're mixing your OJ with loads of vinegar for a cleaning solution, you're going to end up with a very sticky mess. There's way too much sugar in OJ to effectively clean anything. Source: 7 years as a cleaner. If you have to mix your shit with vinegar, you may as well just use vinegar.
The reason Mountain Dew has such a bad reputation is bc it contained a known carcinogen until about 15 years ago Edit: and no the carcinogen was not Yellow 5. It was an additive.
Rare Old Mountain Dew by The Quare Fellas is a TOTAL JAM!!! THEY'RE SCOTTISH and I'm about 2/5 Scotch though I've yet to start on my first. My Grandpfather (McCaig) ran the top Plumbing company in Topeka Kansas. In the 60's there were always bottles of Hillbilly Themed Mountain Dew on the stairs down to the Basement. FANTA Orange in Italy in a 2 Ft. Bottle may've been my first soft drink Thrill but Mt. DEW was pretty much the first caffeine pop I'd ever been introduced to and Boy does it hold a special place in my heart. I Really Miss the dude popping the jug & the cork making a bullet hole in his Hat...!
Another aspect of the hillbilly marketing was the Darryl Waltrip #11 Mountain Dew car. As a kid, that was my first favorite driver/car. And Dew in a can is better bottles or fountain, hands down.
I was a little kid in the '60's. Their commercials reminded me of the Snuffy Smith comic strip. Around 1980 i remember my buddy's hugh school age sister saying that her friends all thought that if they could have as much fun in one day as the teens in a Mountain Dew commercial did, they would consider their lives were complete and they had peaked.
There was a Mountain Dew commercial at the beginning of our VHS copy of Dirty Dancing from the late 80's. It had people water-skiing in a river. We used to watch that movie all the time when I was a kid in the mid-90's, and that commercial is such an iconic childhood memory for me. I can't remember any specific Mountain Dew commercial from the 90's, except the tagline Do the Dew; none of them were as good as that 80's one.
I remember as a 5 year old child riding with my grandad in his 1965 Chevy pickup to the general store for a pack of white owl cigars and a Sunday paper. Grandpa would always grab me a bottle of mountain dew from the cooler. We didn't drink a lot of soft drinks back them, so it was always a big treat when I got one. . . . Thanks for the memories grandpa
Nice to see someone else know Mt Dew used to be an alcohol mixer before it became a soda. It actually had a song back in the day. “They call it that good old Mt Dew, And them that refuse it are few. I’ll shut up my mug If you fill up my jug With that gold old Mt Dew!”
@@Rayraywheelz I started using it after I ran out of sprite & saw a can in my fridge, I highly recommend using mountain dew in place of sprite as a mixer
I''m old enough to remember drinking 10 oz. glass bottles of Mountain Dew (which could be returned for cash deposit) with the hillbilly livery on the bottles. No mention in the video of "Bub and Pud" -- the two feuding hillbillies on the bottles at one time. I would also add that the switch from an Appalachian motif to the youthful Rocky Mountain vibe coincided with the decline of rural TV shows in the early '70s and the popularity of John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High." With the multitudes of Mt. Dew flavors currently available, I wish Pepsico would re-release the formula they used in the 1960s. It was my favorite soda as a little kid. I'd love to taste it again.
Come over to Europe and try a Mt. Dew here - "real sugar" (still can't get over the absolutely ridiculous fact that this is some kind of fancy "buzz word" in the oh-so-great US, nowadays..) and a lot less sweet overall, since Europeans can't stomach the overly sweet American products. It's still neongreen and probably not _exactly_ like the 1960's version, but it'll be a lot closer to that.
@@DatsWhatHeSaid Great idea -- thanks! Is it available most anywhere in Europe, or would I have to hunt for it? My father-in-law lives in Portugal, so I'll probably be visiting sometime in the near future.
Should be available from any of the bigger chain supermarkets all over Europe, and probably also some Portugal specific chains that I don't know about@@xkot6431! But once you're over there, Google or even (younger) supermarket clerks will surely help you out pinpointing a specific store(chain) to get your hands on it :)
I am also. I remember they cost a dime each if you had an empty bottle to leave otherwise the deposit was 2 cents for the glass bottle. They were cold and good. It's nothing to brag over but I have no doubt Ivd drank enought of them to refloat the Titanic. 12 Oz soft drink was a dime and so were those paper sacks of boiled peanuts that now go for almost 3 dollars. 10 cents a bag , 3 for a quarter and 15 bags for a dollar. YAhh Hoo Mt Dew, it ll tickle your innards.
Hey Weird History! Remember when they used to include toys/prizes in cereal boxes?! I think a video you guys could do an awesome job with is "Top X Prizes That Were Found in Cereal Boxes". It would hit that nostalgic nerve for people too! Love your work guys!
Me and my buddies had a "skate team" we made up when we were like 11-13 and we named it AMPED after Mt.dew Amp, we drank ungodly amounts of that stuff lol
At the 2 min. mark I recognized that voice…Howard Morris, AKA Ernest T Bass. He voiced many commercials, and cartoon characters. He was an underrated actor.
I drank a lot of Dew in the '60's. I never realized they added orange flavoring in the 70's. I know it changed when they switched from cane sugar to corn syrup.
There are quite a few discrepancies in this video. Game Fuel, as of last November, is not defunct. It had a re-release as last year's Christmas flavor. It will be re-releasing next holiday season as well along with another Game Fuel flavor, aside from the original Citrus Cherry. Dollar General does not have Sweet Lightning as their exclusive flavor: they have Maui Burst. Sweet Lightning is a restaurant exclusive flavor at KFC. Mountain Dew Rise, or after the lawsuit, Energy, is no longer in production. It has been slowing down and liquidating ever since late last year. This video was uploaded only recently, so I would have expected these facts to have been known beforehand.
i was born in '80, and i'm not ashamed to say i LOVE Mtn Dew and i always have. my dad was a strict Dr. Pepper guy...he wouldn't touch any other soda, not even Pepsi or Coke. he was so stoked watching Forrest Gump the first time, i'm not even kidding. anyway, we weren't supposed to drink soda when we were kids. dad's Dr. Pepper was hands-off, but the prob was, he'd buy 3-4 cases at a time and keep it in the big old garage fridge, so who'd notice a couple cans missing? nobody. we were very careful to take the cans with us or bury them in the trash. the first time i tasted Mtn Dew, i was probably 8 years old...and from the first sip, i was hooked. absolutely, undoubtedly hooked. it was a hot summer day, we were out riding bikes, and we went to the drugstore for a drink...Mello Yello or Mtn Dew? i picked Dew. the green can and white label looked weirdly attractive. i crushed that first can in like 6 huge chugs. burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppp. my god, that was the most delicious thing i'd ever drank. well, now i'm almost 44 and i drink 1-2 Dews every single day. i even have it with breakfast most of the time. i'm never, ever giving up Dew. no way, no how. i'm not overweight or diabetic, probably because i've never been that big of an eater. but it's true that i've spent about $30,000 in dental bills over the years, which isn't Dew's fault, but my own. i'm sure it didn't help, but getting into bad habits in college (partying all weekend and even weeknights pretty often) hurt my dental health, and i had to get it fixed and get back into better habits. so that's my story of a love affair with Dew. i still think they should bring back the full name Mountain Dew (instead of Mtn) and the classic white and green can.
Oh boy, lots to say here… first had MD as a kid on Tom Sawyer’s Island at Disneyland (approx 1969). Never had it after that until around 1985 and it brought back those childhood memories. I went to work for Pepsi in 1991 as a delivery driver. The facility I worked at was a bottling plant so it package every type of container possible along with all the other products/flavors we carried at the time ie….Mug Root Beer, Squirt, Slice etc (oh yes, don’t forget Crystal Pepsi). On my route I had two truck stops I serviced each week. It DID NOT matter how much MD I took in the week before, they were out. I would deliver….both kinds of fountain products, cases of 6pk cans, 16 oz bottles, 12 oz long neck bottles, 2 liter bottles….all gone in those 7 days. Each truck stop had three places to stock, fuel desk, restaurant and general store. Have always had fond memories of the “Dew”
I love Mountain Dew! I have been drinking if from the mid 1970s. I drink about 7 a day. As much as I spent on Mountain Dew, I could have own the company.
Love purple thunder. For the longest time I wasn't able to get it cause I lived nowhere near a circle k but they recently bought out mapco so now I have one close to home!
I've been a "Do the Dew" guy since the 70's, and I love the traditional flavor, regardless of the changes made over the years. But my favorite #2 Mountain Dew is Pitch Black! Yahoo! Mountain Dew! 🤓👍💯
Black Label was one of my fav non-standard flavors. Wasn't happy when that got discontinued. Livewire, Voltage and Baja are probably the other different flavors I usually get.
What a great compilation! I can imagine the work that went into this video - all the commercials, the video and graphics over the years, all the research into the history of this drink. Excellent work, Weird History Food. This is my first time happening on your channel, and I am impressed (and entertained).
I remember the first time I drank a Mountain Dew. It was in 93 and we were in vacation in a place called dog patch USA in Arkansas. From that day I was hooked.
I remember when Mountain Dew came out officially in 1964 while spending the summer in Ocean City MD. The boardwalk, House of the Rising Sun, and Mountain Dew. Good memories. Still drink it.
I still remember my very first Mountain Dew. Orlando, Florida 1987. My parents took me to Disney World and the hotel we were staying at had a soda machine at the end of the hall. It was probably the first time I was allowed to use a soda machine by myself too. The only sodas my parents ever bought were Coke and Sprite so when I was presented with different choices of soda it was a mind-blowing experience. I had no idea what Mountain Dew was, I only selected it because the logo looked neat. After that first can, I was hooked and I kept pestering my mom for change so I could run back to the machine and get another Mountain Dew. I remember more about that damn soda than I do the whole trip to Disney World.
Great video on the History of Mountain Dew. I don't drink it much now but i loved it as a teen. It was the perfect drink for long gaming sessions. Especially playing CoD with friends. :)
I know I'm in a minority here, but for me Mountain Dew has always existed in a valley between Sun Drop, which I'd choose as a pick-me-up with its far higher caffeine content, or Mello Yello, of which I prefer the taste. That said, some of the best moonshine I've ever had came from Martinsville, Virginia and was awesome paired with Mountain Dew as a mixer or chaser. It really gave you that "white lightnin'" feeling, like a bolt of electricity straight down your spine. The only alcohol to ever affect me that way.
I started drinking Mountain Dew in the 1990s. I felt like the only one around Los Angeles, where I grew up. When I joined the Army in 2002 I was amazed to see that Army guys loved it (the Army is disproportionately Southerners). Vending machines in any base always had it (because the vendors were smart). I mean, Army guys didn't guzzle it, but it was just there and I didn't feel like an oddball by loving it. I left the Army after 12 years. I've cut down on it since, as I'm not young and naturally skinny anymore. But anyway, all along I remember the commercials showing people doing extreme sports or being outdoorsy, and implying they drink Mountain Dew, and I never understood it. No one I knew who was into that stuff drank Mountain Dew. The civilians I knew who did drink it were fat and sedentary. The ads didn't influence me at all; it was the sweet flavor and caffeine. But somehow the campaign must have worked, as they did it for so long. Did fatties drink Mountain Dew thinking this associated them with fit people? Or did these ads really influence the subculture of fit people and get them to drink 170 calories in 12 ounces? Please respond in the replies with your thoughts.
I don’t thinks it was the ads. Mountain Dew just has more sugar making it more appealing to the overweight. It could also be relative to your experience, the only people I knew to drink lots of Mountain Dew was a sprinter at my high school and my mom who’s a little asian woman.
It's like the smoking ads in the 80s where they showed people being rich, popular, good looking, active In sports,etc... sailing was one of the brands big commercials. I don't think people who smoke are anything like the people in the ads, but they did sell a lot of cigarettes. That's why you won't find smoking or other tabacco ads anymore. It's unhealthy...lol😂 it's for your own good the government will let you slam down mt. dew while doing extreme sports. But heaven forbid you smoke.
I'd like a video providing more on an analysis of Mountain Dew Voltage. As a fan of the flavor, I've noticed in recent years that not only have less stores seemigly had less bottles and 12 pack cans instock, but the large 2 lieter bottles they once had have dissapeared entierly for some reason. This deserves some looking into, in my opinion.
That type of amount is for a large 16 oz can. 8oz of Monster is 86mg for example. Other than a few exceptions, you are getting much more caffeine from coffee than an energy drink. I just wanted to put that here because the way you wrote that made it look like energy drinks are much more caffeine packed than coffee, which in general they are not. It is all just marketing that gives that impression.
@@DragonKazooie89coffee is like the highest caffeine content plant on earth that isn’t also toxic you’re disconnected from reality if you think that’s not a lot of caffeine that’ll kill a small animal if you put it on an arrow
When I was a kid in the '70's there was also another drink called "White Lighting". I liked Mt. Dew but liked White Lightning better, but it was harder to find.
My favorite Dew variant was White Out. But, given the origin of the name Mountain Dew, I thought they missed out by not calling it Mountain Dew White Lightning
I remember when I was around 16 or 17 when Mt dew had some contest. I never won anything other than a free dew. I paid for one dew that summer n never had to Pay for another cuz I kept getting a free one on underside of the caps.
I wasnt crazy about Mt Dew in the 70', 80's, it was a taste thing but after 90's and early 2000's something changed for me ... today its on top 3 of my list
You know what I would love to see a story on…Cactus Cooler. It’s a drink my husband and I grew up with, but we can’t get it outside of Southern California…would LOVE to know the history behind this soda!!
Everybody I know from California (3 people lol I live on the other side of the country) has raved about that stuff. I’m halfway tempted to find a way to smuggle some out to here & test the hype
This was my friend’s favorite soda. We’d have sleepovers at his house and stay up all night watching movies. I don’t drink soda nor do I consume caffeine anymore but it’s fun to reminisce about my youth!
There’s no soda better than the original Mtn. Dew in glass bottles. Code Red is good but for some reason always gave me indigestion. Pitch Black was my #2 favorite Mtn. Dew, with the original being #1 of course.
It wasn’t mentioned here, but for a limited time they actually rereleased original mountain dew in the 2010s using cane sugar! I don’t know which of the historic recipes they used exactly but it featured the old hillbilly mascot and came in cans and glass bottles!
I have a potted history with Mountain Dew as a Brit. In the late 90s we had an amazing canned version that left your mouth yellow, but it was banned for being too wild. Then, in the mid 2000s I found an American importer on eBay and tried some of the US product, but it wasn't the same. Finally, some time in the mid 2010s, it came back as an 'energy drink' with the sub flavour 'Citrus Blast' and has stayed ever since. It's nothing like the one I loved from the 90s, but still a nice change. Tried an Emirati imported Pitch Black recently and it was horrible!
I remember the old Mountain Dew jingle: ‘Drink Mountain Dew and you’ll discover, what’s inside quenches like no other, blend of citrus just for you, so smooth it goes down easy too’
I was hoping Weird History Food would talk about the return of Willy The Hillbilly and the old Mountain Dew formula being marketed as “Throw Back”. Although it’s not a permanently marketed Mountain Dew drink, I buy it when available. Mountain Dew’s competitor has always been Mello Yello, and 7-Up’s is Sprite. My favorite Mountain Dew is Code Red. While most of my military peers were drinking coffee in the morning, I drunk Mountain Dew. Like with most goodies when you approach middle age, I had to cut back on the drink because it was causing fast weight gain. I will drink it once in a while; especially while driving on long road trips.
I drank Mt. Dew from age 8 until into my 40s. Towards the end, when I gave up drinking all sodas, I was drinking well over 2 liters of Code Red a day. I still kind of miss it, but won't ever go back.
Mountain Dew has a Major influence in NASCAR Sponsoring many drivers such as Darrell Waltrip, Bill Schmitt, Casey Atwood, Kasey Kahne, Jeremy Mayfield, Brian Vickers, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chase Elliott and Justin Haley
Was really cool when Darrell Waltrip drove for Junior Johnson and was sponsored by Mountain Dew. #11 team Hollywood Hammond & Tim Brewer were crew chiefs.
Back in the 1960's when I was around 9 or 10 years old, my dad humorously told me and I fully believed him, that it was the authentic hillbillies themselves up in the mountains, who made and bottled Mountain Dew in their back yard. He also told me that the quarterback in football was so named, because if he accidentally dropped a quarter, the team would give it back to him. And butterflies come out of packages of butter. And blackbirds get that way from eating blackberries. And the clouds stay up in the sky and don't fall down because they are glued to the sky with a special glue
They used to make a Caffeine Free Mt. Dew (regular & diet both). I always preferred that. When I moved, it wasn't available where I was living, so I'd bring a case or two back with me every time I went back home. Now, it's been discontinued entirely. Bring back Caffeine Free Mt. Dew!
@@ingridfong-daley5899 There are lots of ways to get caffeine if one wants it. There's only 1 thing that tastes like Mt. Dew. So, for me, the intent IS the taste. And since it's so wildly over-caffeinated even compared with other caffeinated drinks, I almost never end up drinking my favorite soft drink. They made a huge mistake in discontinuing that version. I'd like to drink my favorite soft drink without having it make me ill. And since they don't give me that option, I'll choose anything else 999 times out of 1000. It tastes great, but it's just not worth what it does to me.
It's not a drink i like but my memory is of high school/college friends simply 'tolerating' the taste just to down that amount of caffeine. I guess that was the days before energy drinks so people have plenty hi-octane options now. I just don't recall people liking the flavour so much as enduring it. :)@@VJacquette
I cried , literally, when Mt. Dew changed over to corn syrup,and cried when they came out with the Throw Back, damn cant they quit playing with my emotions and leave perfect alone.😢
The video says it's Dollar General that carries Sweet Lightning, but that's obviously a mistake. DG has Maui Burst, a pineapple flavor that was a summer exclusive the year before COVID.
I love Mountain Dew......that's all I can say. I friggin love Mountain Dew. All flavors. Its amazing. Did they say originally caffeine free? That definitely changed. I'd love to try all the old versions of the Dew...the original, the first caffeinated version, the Tipp version, etc.
Didn’t realize that the new hard mtn dew was sort of the original vision of the brand, maybe. It would be cool if they released something to mix with bourbon, maybe do a collaboration
What’s funny is is that for Mountain Dew being such an integral part of gamer and X games culture, it does seem in some parts to have returned to its country roots. In the Midwest during deer hunting season, I have seen Mountain Dew marketed with Hunter, orange colors and promoting deer hunting. so in a way it has kind of gone full circle.
Thanks for the video I'm gonna get some Mountain Dew right now. I still have one of the tickle your inner's cups from the 1970s practically an antique by now. As far as using Mountain Dew as a mixer for alcohol it goes excellent with Absente.
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
You'd have to drink gallons of pure yellow dye to have the contraceptive effects people were looking for. So much dye you would literally dye yourself yellow.
I remember the old moonshiner, kicked back on his front porch, with his crossed legs perched on the porch rail - rifle sighted between his toes, yelling "Yahoo, Mountain Dew ! " ... :) The local competition in our area at the time was Kickapoo Joy Juice... :)
JOLT COLA-- all the sugar TWICE the caffeine. I was hooked on it in high school back in the late 1980s. They try to stay afloat with other branded products like JOLT gum. I'd love to see a segment on this brand. Thank you
That gum was so weird, but my mom and I used to chew on one before we did Taekwondo tournaments in the late 90s/early 2000s. It tasted awful compared to the drink, but it was super effective at making us tweak out and alert lol
I wish Sweet Lightening was not KFC only. Maybe they will release it like Baja Blast. I also like Live Wire and one of the blue ones. Maui Burst is pretty good too.
I remember the hillbilly Dew from my youth in the late 60s and early 70s. The moment they abandoned this identity for the "Do the Dew" campaign, I had no urge to return to the drink.
Do the Dew started in the 90's. From the late 70's through the 80's it was "Gimmie a Dew" with people riding horses, muddin, monster trucks. All a Midwest/country vibe with water. Lots and lots of water.
@@seththomas9105 There was a certain charm with that hillbilly persona. Like McDonalds and Ronald and his friends. Once lost, the product becomes non-descript. The funny thing was, my parents had no idea they were filling us up on caffeine. Same thing with Mom making unsweetened ice tea for us in the refrigerator. I'm surprised my siblings and I all don't have ADHD.today.
Back in the mid 90s I would go to stay with my mom in Memphis during the summer. She would enter all those random giveaways at the grocery store and entered me in a Mt Dew one and totally forgot. I got a call one day while she was at work saying that I had won, but we didn't know what they were talking about and thought it was a scam. We drove to the address and it was a huge office building. They gave me a load of EXTREME Mt Dew gear including shirts, a windbreaker, a bag, but the big item was a custom Mt Dew skateboard. I wasn't interested in skating, so I took it to a shop and they gave me like $200 for it. That was pretty cool because I was like 13 or whatever, but I kind of wish I still had it now.
Probably would be worth a pretty penny to the right collector now.
You and I may have passed each other a few times. I spent the summer in memphis\millington TN summer of 96, watching MTV (when it still played music "no doubt, Manson and green day were huge), I cut grass for money and bought nothing but sodas and gummy worms) and I was 12 so...maybe 👍
😂😂😂 sounds like bs
@@Dave-bj3pq nah man, Pepsi loves giving shit away. My old roommate and I drove to the beach on a whim one day and while fucking w the truckers over cb radio, met up w a Pepsi driver at a waffle house and he unloaded a ton of free shit on us and it was random af. Dudes telling the truth, at least I would assume so from my own experience
Hate to show my age, but one summer I collected as many mountain dew caps as could til I had enough to get the mtn dew pager mailed in and got a response along the lines that it wasn't offered in my area
I'm 63 years old. I remember as a 5 year old child riding with my grandad in his 1965 Chevy pickup to the general store for a pack of white owl cigars and a Sunday paper. Grandpa would always grab me a bottle of mountain dew from the cooler. We didn't drink a lot of soft drinks back them, so it was always a big treat when I got one. . . . Thanks for the memories grandpa.
I am 5 years behind you, butbthe experience was pretty much tge same. Didn't drink much soft drink, and it was a real treat to even share with siblings. Fond memories of a different time.
Milk, Mountain Dew and water. Thanks Pa.
In my 20s i was working full time and full time at college. I drank probably 12 pack a day. I never drink it now. Entirely ti much sugar and caffeine for me.
It's still a treat. The only difference now is that everyone is entitled and narcissistic so they slug it down like it's air.
Thank you for sharing your cherished memory from the old days
I remember in the late 90's, I could fill up my Jeep AND get a Mountain Dew for $20. Saved the caps and got a CD. Simpler times! :)
They should just re-run the "tickle yer innards" ad from back in the day. It's perfect as is. I think companies should occasionally rerun vintage ads...I think it would be cool AND eye catching !
Taste memory can be an uncanny thing. I still remember how Dew tasted in 1966.
How'd it taste compared to now?
@@ericcrawford7207I can remember in the 70’s that it had ‘floaties’ of citrus in it.
I think remembering what tasted good and made you feel good is important for our survival
OOOOOH, that's what ZZtop was singing about. Cool
@@ericcrawford7207 it's hard to explain, but it shows how memories are formed, in 1966 I was 5 years old. The taste memory is tied to a specific time and location memory, the Commissary at Ft. Lewis Washington. The taste is more of an impression, but I can't pin it down in comparison to how it tastes today, but if there was a difference I would say that it's due to the use of real sugar instead of HFCS.
Back in high-school in the mid 90s, we would have bonfires on Friday nights. Everyone brought their own food and drink, but we would basically have a big tailgate party around a big campfire. I would bring a "cube" of Dew, (I can't remember now if it was 24 or 36 cans), and drink all of them myself. My friends all thought I was nuts and couldn't figure out why I wasn't pinging of the trucks like a pinball lol. I found out years later that I had ADHD and the caffeine was doing the opposite to me than it did to my friends.
Cubes have 24 cans, at least they do now. I think this drink is quite popular with ADHD people for that very reason, calms the nerves and focuses the mind like any other stimulant, and Mtn Dew has the most caffeine out of any other soda. I remember me and all my friends back in church youth group would drink the stuff like water. Not to mention, caffeine is incredibly addictive, like any other stimulant.
I've often wondered if caffeine just didn't effect me. Now I think that I might have some ADHD that my Diet MD helps me with.
@@chrismichaelyoungsundrop has more caffeine than regular mt dew.
@@frankf684 true but it's not easy to find everywhere
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In India,.Dew's tagline is "Darr k aage jeet hai" which means Beyond Fear lies Victory and its a popular everyday phrase to use.
Most of its ads always includes fun and cool stunts.
That line sounds metal af
Bro climbing Mount Everest isn't really fun and cool
Bruh warrior motto haha
@ZALA_Lancet they.. do, and what does that have to do with anything
Does anyone remember when Mountain Dew did a survey amongst the public asking for a name for their apple flavor? The winning flavor name (before the survey was quickly taken down and limited to a select few chosen names) was "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong Mountain Dew" quickly followed in second place by "Gushing Granny Mountain Dew".... Very True Stories!
I rememeber back in the middle 60s, the bottle had a Hillbilly carrying a rifle and running to an out house.
Due to family connections I had several bits of swag, including a real guitar, felt hillbilly hat, corncob pipe. It was so weird seeing it go "edgy" later.
When you got to poop you got to poop
@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kkwhen you gotta go you gotta go.
@@Rose-yx6jq yep
"It'll tickle yer innards!"
Mountain Dew is so legendary, I was geekin this whole vid but was hyped to learn about the history of a beverage I enjoy drinking
Jolt Cola would be good to learn more about
It was nasty. Had so much sugar that it made your teeth feel fuzzy.
I still miss the blue jolt, tasted like carbonated melted blue popsicles.
All the sugar, Twice the caffeine. What more do you need to know?
I always wanted diet jolt
I loved Jolt. Every other cola drink was and still is garbage to me.
"Tickle yer innards" is the best tagline ever!
11:36 For anyone freaking out about the acidity of the soft drink, remember the same is true of orange juice, which mountain dew contains. It is why a number of cleaners use orange juice. Lemon juice too is a popular choice too. The fact is lots of foods are quite aciditic and acidic tastes are one of the primary flavors you can taste.
Unless you're mixing your OJ with loads of vinegar for a cleaning solution, you're going to end up with a very sticky mess. There's way too much sugar in OJ to effectively clean anything.
Source: 7 years as a cleaner. If you have to mix your shit with vinegar, you may as well just use vinegar.
The reason Mountain Dew has such a bad reputation is bc it contained a known carcinogen until about 15 years ago
The reason Mountain Dew has such a bad reputation is bc it contained a known carcinogen until about 15 years ago
Edit: and no the carcinogen was not Yellow 5. It was an additive.
@@LudiCrust.BVO? I used that until very recently.
@@LudiCrust......perhaps but no one I know who doesn't like it, doesn't like it because it's disgusting and diabetes waiting to happen
Rare Old Mountain Dew by The Quare Fellas is a TOTAL JAM!!! THEY'RE SCOTTISH and I'm about 2/5 Scotch though I've yet to start on my first. My Grandpfather (McCaig) ran the top Plumbing company in Topeka Kansas. In the 60's there were always bottles of Hillbilly Themed Mountain Dew on the stairs down to the Basement. FANTA Orange in Italy in a 2 Ft. Bottle may've been my first soft drink Thrill but Mt. DEW was pretty much the first caffeine pop I'd ever been introduced to and Boy does it hold a special place in my heart. I Really Miss the dude popping the jug & the cork making a bullet hole in his Hat...!
Pitch black continue to be the most underrated and personal favorite flavor, especially the short lived energy version too
Livewire is also awsome!
@@jasonsaville8822 totally! That one has gotta be tied for my favorite too
I've got a can of the blcak one saved for a special ocasiin
Only seven minutes in and no mention of pitch black 1 or 2. JFC it -was- is the best summertime flavor.
White out
I remember Mountain Dew being referred to as "Tweaker's Choice" back in the early 2000s. Has anyone else heard of this reference?🤔
Makes sense.. the Mountain Dew bottles were used in clandestine labs as a vessel.
Another aspect of the hillbilly marketing was the Darryl Waltrip #11 Mountain Dew car. As a kid, that was my first favorite driver/car. And Dew in a can is better bottles or fountain, hands down.
This right here!
I was a little kid in the '60's. Their commercials reminded me of the Snuffy Smith comic strip. Around 1980 i remember my buddy's hugh school age sister saying that her friends all thought that if they could have as much fun in one day as the teens in a Mountain Dew commercial did, they would consider their lives were complete and they had peaked.
That special moment in the WFH video where the commercials catch up with your childhood.
Those 80s commercials were iconic.
There was a Mountain Dew commercial at the beginning of our VHS copy of Dirty Dancing from the late 80's. It had people water-skiing in a river. We used to watch that movie all the time when I was a kid in the mid-90's, and that commercial is such an iconic childhood memory for me. I can't remember any specific Mountain Dew commercial from the 90's, except the tagline Do the Dew; none of them were as good as that 80's one.
I remember as a 5 year old child riding with my grandad in his 1965 Chevy pickup to the general store for a pack of white owl cigars and a Sunday paper. Grandpa would always grab me a bottle of mountain dew from the cooler. We didn't drink a lot of soft drinks back them, so it was always a big treat when I got one. . . . Thanks for the memories grandpa
Nice to see someone else know Mt Dew used to be an alcohol mixer before it became a soda. It actually had a song back in the day.
“They call it that good old Mt Dew,
And them that refuse it are few.
I’ll shut up my mug
If you fill up my jug
With that gold old Mt Dew!”
Yeah I'm from Marion
When I first started drinking at a young age mt. Dew was all I used as a chaser lol
I was imparted this knowledge by the legendary rock band Ween.
Based in older song Good Ol Mountian Dew from 1930's well before the drink was made popular or worked as a drink.
@@Rayraywheelz I started using it after I ran out of sprite & saw a can in my fridge, I highly recommend using mountain dew in place of sprite as a mixer
Code Red and the regular Mountain Dew are both my favorite types of Mountain Dew.
I also like Mountain Dew's slogan, "Do the Dew."
I''m old enough to remember drinking 10 oz. glass bottles of Mountain Dew (which could be returned for cash deposit) with the hillbilly livery on the bottles. No mention in the video of "Bub and Pud" -- the two feuding hillbillies on the bottles at one time. I would also add that the switch from an Appalachian motif to the youthful Rocky Mountain vibe coincided with the decline of rural TV shows in the early '70s and the popularity of John Denver's "Rocky Mountain High." With the multitudes of Mt. Dew flavors currently available, I wish Pepsico would re-release the formula they used in the 1960s. It was my favorite soda as a little kid. I'd love to taste it again.
Come over to Europe and try a Mt. Dew here - "real sugar" (still can't get over the absolutely ridiculous fact that this is some kind of fancy "buzz word" in the oh-so-great US, nowadays..) and a lot less sweet overall, since Europeans can't stomach the overly sweet American products.
It's still neongreen and probably not _exactly_ like the 1960's version, but it'll be a lot closer to that.
@@DatsWhatHeSaid Great idea -- thanks! Is it available most anywhere in Europe, or would I have to hunt for it? My father-in-law lives in Portugal, so I'll probably be visiting sometime in the near future.
Should be available from any of the bigger chain supermarkets all over Europe, and probably also some Portugal specific chains that I don't know about@@xkot6431!
But once you're over there, Google or even (younger) supermarket clerks will surely help you out pinpointing a specific store(chain) to get your hands on it :)
Try finding some throwback Mt dew
I am also. I remember they cost a dime each if you had an empty bottle to leave otherwise the deposit was 2 cents for the glass bottle. They were cold and good. It's nothing to brag over but I have no doubt Ivd drank enought of them to refloat the Titanic. 12 Oz soft drink was a dime and so were those paper sacks of boiled peanuts that now go for almost 3 dollars. 10 cents a bag , 3 for a quarter and 15 bags for a dollar. YAhh Hoo Mt Dew, it ll tickle your innards.
I’m just old school and a hillbilly to my favorite is ole Willie thanks for this video. GOD BLESS!!!!!!!! ✌🏻from Ga.
Hey Weird History! Remember when they used to include toys/prizes in cereal boxes?! I think a video you guys could do an awesome job with is "Top X Prizes That Were Found in Cereal Boxes". It would hit that nostalgic nerve for people too! Love your work guys!
I second that.
I would like and subscribe!
That is a great suggestion, nice.
Cereal had a lot of mascots that just disappeared too.
My best "prize" was a TMNT cereal bowl, it was so big they had to attach it to the outside of the box.
I was hoping MountainDew AMP was gonna get mentioned as one of its side projects. Good video can’t believe I use to drink so much Dew.
I was waiting for that too. Red Amp got me through my Senior year in high school haha
Me and my buddies had a "skate team" we made up when we were like 11-13 and we named it AMPED after Mt.dew Amp, we drank ungodly amounts of that stuff lol
"It'll tickle yer innards" is one of the best slogans ever.
At the 2 min. mark I recognized that voice…Howard Morris, AKA Ernest T Bass. He voiced many commercials, and cartoon characters. He was an underrated actor.
Also one of the riskiest pick-up lines.
@@hatandbeardmedia5925 true
I drank a lot of Dew in the '60's. I never realized they added orange flavoring in the 70's. I know it changed when they switched from cane sugar to corn syrup.
There are quite a few discrepancies in this video. Game Fuel, as of last November, is not defunct. It had a re-release as last year's Christmas flavor. It will be re-releasing next holiday season as well along with another Game Fuel flavor, aside from the original Citrus Cherry.
Dollar General does not have Sweet Lightning as their exclusive flavor: they have Maui Burst. Sweet Lightning is a restaurant exclusive flavor at KFC.
Mountain Dew Rise, or after the lawsuit, Energy, is no longer in production. It has been slowing down and liquidating ever since late last year. This video was uploaded only recently, so I would have expected these facts to have been known beforehand.
I still regularly see Mountain Dew Energy in stock locally so I think many are unaware of that
i was born in '80, and i'm not ashamed to say i LOVE Mtn Dew and i always have. my dad was a strict Dr. Pepper guy...he wouldn't touch any other soda, not even Pepsi or Coke. he was so stoked watching Forrest Gump the first time, i'm not even kidding.
anyway, we weren't supposed to drink soda when we were kids. dad's Dr. Pepper was hands-off, but the prob was, he'd buy 3-4 cases at a time and keep it in the big old garage fridge, so who'd notice a couple cans missing? nobody. we were very careful to take the cans with us or bury them in the trash.
the first time i tasted Mtn Dew, i was probably 8 years old...and from the first sip, i was hooked. absolutely, undoubtedly hooked. it was a hot summer day, we were out riding bikes, and we went to the drugstore for a drink...Mello Yello or Mtn Dew? i picked Dew. the green can and white label looked weirdly attractive.
i crushed that first can in like 6 huge chugs. burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppp. my god, that was the most delicious thing i'd ever drank.
well, now i'm almost 44 and i drink 1-2 Dews every single day. i even have it with breakfast most of the time. i'm never, ever giving up Dew. no way, no how.
i'm not overweight or diabetic, probably because i've never been that big of an eater. but it's true that i've spent about $30,000 in dental bills over the years, which isn't Dew's fault, but my own. i'm sure it didn't help, but getting into bad habits in college (partying all weekend and even weeknights pretty often) hurt my dental health, and i had to get it fixed and get back into better habits.
so that's my story of a love affair with Dew. i still think they should bring back the full name Mountain Dew (instead of Mtn) and the classic white and green can.
Oh boy, lots to say here… first had MD as a kid on Tom Sawyer’s Island at Disneyland (approx 1969). Never had it after that until around 1985 and it brought back those childhood memories. I went to work for Pepsi in 1991 as a delivery driver. The facility I worked at was a bottling plant so it package every type of container possible along with all the other products/flavors we carried at the time ie….Mug Root Beer, Squirt, Slice etc (oh yes, don’t forget Crystal Pepsi). On my route I had two truck stops I serviced each week. It DID NOT matter how much MD I took in the week before, they were out. I would deliver….both kinds of fountain products, cases of 6pk cans, 16 oz bottles, 12 oz long neck bottles, 2 liter bottles….all gone in those 7 days. Each truck stop had three places to stock, fuel desk, restaurant and general store. Have always had fond memories of the “Dew”
If I ran out of a product, as a store manager, every week I would think my vendor was not very good at their job.
I love Mountain Dew! I have been drinking if from the mid 1970s. I drink about 7 a day. As much as I spent on Mountain Dew, I could have own the company.
Cricle K has an exclusive flavor called Purple Thunder that tastes identical to the old Pepsi Blue, it's SO dang good!! 🤤
I really like the exclusive one that Casey's has too, Overdrive
Racetrack used to have a mango energy drink in the fountain and it was awesome. I'd get the biggest possible one and it would last all night.
Love purple thunder. For the longest time I wasn't able to get it cause I lived nowhere near a circle k but they recently bought out mapco so now I have one close to home!
Purple thunder taste like sweetarts to me
I definitely don't get the taste of Pepsi blue. I can definitely taste the plum in it though.
I've been a "Do the Dew" guy since the 70's, and I love the traditional flavor, regardless of the changes made over the years. But my favorite #2 Mountain Dew is Pitch Black! Yahoo! Mountain Dew! 🤓👍💯
Im not religious or anything, but Baja blast sure gets me close. That stuff is heavenly.
Every shop I've ever worked has Mt. Dew, sometimes two slots, even in coke machines. Thank your tech.
Black Label was one of my fav non-standard flavors. Wasn't happy when that got discontinued. Livewire, Voltage and Baja are probably the other different flavors I usually get.
My taste buds still ache for that nectar of the gods
Black Label and a White Label were amazing
@@Apoc_Bone_Daddy
Don't forget about Green Label
What a great compilation! I can imagine the work that went into this video - all the commercials, the video and graphics over the years, all the research into the history of this drink. Excellent work, Weird History Food. This is my first time happening on your channel, and I am impressed (and entertained).
I have been drinking Mountain Dew since the late 60's. I wish Super Nova was still around. Code Red Mountain Dew is my favorite.
I remember the first time I drank a Mountain Dew. It was in 93 and we were in vacation in a place called dog patch USA in Arkansas. From that day I was hooked.
Been drinking this stuff like crazy since the mid 90’s. I wouldn’t say I’m addicted to it, but I just may cease to exist if it disappeared.
80%of their sales is from 20% of their customers
@@ThomasHammminga
Every Pepsi delivery guy I’be talked to say dew is their #1 drink in sales, not Pepsi like claimed here
Just wait until you start passing kidney stones.
@@kentmarsh6442 had a couple. My doc said it’s more from leafy greens and most docs would say it’s from pop, just to get you to stop drinking pop.
@@kentmarsh6442 I pass one a year, most aren't so bad. I've only been hospitalized for the pain twice and those were calcium based ones.
I remember when Mountain Dew came out officially in 1964 while spending the summer in Ocean City MD. The boardwalk, House of the Rising Sun, and Mountain Dew. Good memories. Still drink it.
Nice to see Qxir being referenced, his channel is a lot of fun.
The doodles combined with his accent are 👌
Qxir's channel is GOLD.
I still remember my very first Mountain Dew. Orlando, Florida 1987. My parents took me to Disney World and the hotel we were staying at had a soda machine at the end of the hall. It was probably the first time I was allowed to use a soda machine by myself too. The only sodas my parents ever bought were Coke and Sprite so when I was presented with different choices of soda it was a mind-blowing experience. I had no idea what Mountain Dew was, I only selected it because the logo looked neat. After that first can, I was hooked and I kept pestering my mom for change so I could run back to the machine and get another Mountain Dew. I remember more about that damn soda than I do the whole trip to Disney World.
Great video on the History of Mountain Dew. I don't drink it much now but i loved it as a teen.
It was the perfect drink for long gaming sessions. Especially playing CoD with friends. :)
I know I'm in a minority here, but for me Mountain Dew has always existed in a valley between Sun Drop, which I'd choose as a pick-me-up with its far higher caffeine content, or Mello Yello, of which I prefer the taste. That said, some of the best moonshine I've ever had came from Martinsville, Virginia and was awesome paired with Mountain Dew as a mixer or chaser. It really gave you that "white lightnin'" feeling, like a bolt of electricity straight down your spine. The only alcohol to ever affect me that way.
10mg more than Mountain Dew isn’t far higher.
I started drinking Mountain Dew in the 1990s. I felt like the only one around Los Angeles, where I grew up. When I joined the Army in 2002 I was amazed to see that Army guys loved it (the Army is disproportionately Southerners). Vending machines in any base always had it (because the vendors were smart). I mean, Army guys didn't guzzle it, but it was just there and I didn't feel like an oddball by loving it. I left the Army after 12 years. I've cut down on it since, as I'm not young and naturally skinny anymore. But anyway, all along I remember the commercials showing people doing extreme sports or being outdoorsy, and implying they drink Mountain Dew, and I never understood it. No one I knew who was into that stuff drank Mountain Dew. The civilians I knew who did drink it were fat and sedentary. The ads didn't influence me at all; it was the sweet flavor and caffeine. But somehow the campaign must have worked, as they did it for so long. Did fatties drink Mountain Dew thinking this associated them with fit people? Or did these ads really influence the subculture of fit people and get them to drink 170 calories in 12 ounces? Please respond in the replies with your thoughts.
I don’t thinks it was the ads. Mountain Dew just has more sugar making it more appealing to the overweight.
It could also be relative to your experience, the only people I knew to drink lots of Mountain Dew was a sprinter at my high school and my mom who’s a little asian woman.
Shit slaps.
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It's like the smoking ads in the 80s where they showed people being rich, popular, good looking, active In sports,etc... sailing was one of the brands big commercials. I don't think people who smoke are anything like the people in the ads, but they did sell a lot of cigarettes. That's why you won't find smoking or other tabacco ads anymore. It's unhealthy...lol😂 it's for your own good the government will let you slam down mt. dew while doing extreme sports. But heaven forbid you smoke.
I'd like a video providing more on an analysis of Mountain Dew Voltage. As a fan of the flavor, I've noticed in recent years that not only have less stores seemigly had less bottles and 12 pack cans instock, but the large 2 lieter bottles they once had have dissapeared entierly for some reason. This deserves some looking into, in my opinion.
54mg of caffeine is not a high caffeine amount. A regular cup of coffee has 95mg and most energy drinks start at about 150mg.
That type of amount is for a large 16 oz can. 8oz of Monster is 86mg for example. Other than a few exceptions, you are getting much more caffeine from coffee than an energy drink.
I just wanted to put that here because the way you wrote that made it look like energy drinks are much more caffeine packed than coffee, which in general they are not. It is all just marketing that gives that impression.
It’s a high amount for me, one can in the afternoon and I’m up all night
@@DragonKazooie89coffee is like the highest caffeine content plant on earth that isn’t also toxic you’re disconnected from reality if you think that’s not a lot of caffeine that’ll kill a small animal if you put it on an arrow
It is for soda,Mountain Dew is not being compared to coffee or energy drinks here.
Man, just stfu and watch the mofo video! Damn!
When I was a kid in the '70's there was also another drink called "White Lighting". I liked Mt. Dew but liked White Lightning better, but it was harder to find.
7:04 Hey that’s me! I’m happy to be a part of the video! Keep up the good work! 😎
Are you Jason Langlois? And is that Voltage?
@@btetschner I’m holding voltage but no I’m industrial Industries world radio, my review is featured on this video ☺️
@@IndustrialIndustriesWorldRadio Okay, I just saw that clip after I watched that video.
My favorite Dew variant was White Out. But, given the origin of the name Mountain Dew, I thought they missed out by not calling it Mountain Dew White Lightning
Nothing like watching one of my favorite drinks by my favorite narrator!!!
Sweet lightning is KFC EXCLUSIVE and Maui Burst is the DOLLAR GENERAL EXCLUSIVE, idk how you mess that up lmao
I remember when I was around 16 or 17 when Mt dew had some contest. I never won anything other than a free dew. I paid for one dew that summer n never had to Pay for another cuz I kept getting a free one on underside of the caps.
They need to bring back those caps.
I wasnt crazy about Mt Dew in the 70', 80's, it was a taste thing but after 90's and early 2000's something changed for me ... today its on top 3 of my list
"gushing granny" is and always will be my fav. Flavor 😏
Excuse me, I think we know the _real_ name.
@@passingrando6457 Some dude that liked to salute won I think.
first time i tasted MD was later 60s..hot and humid summer day..the Dew was cold and it was so good..i was hooked...
You know what I would love to see a story on…Cactus Cooler. It’s a drink my husband and I grew up with, but we can’t get it outside of Southern California…would LOVE to know the history behind this soda!!
Everybody I know from California (3 people lol I live on the other side of the country) has raved about that stuff. I’m halfway tempted to find a way to smuggle some out to here & test the hype
It gave me Diabetes! Now I am a amputee! Thank you Mt Dew
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This was my friend’s favorite soda. We’d have sleepovers at his house and stay up all night watching movies. I don’t drink soda nor do I consume caffeine anymore but it’s fun to reminisce about my youth!
I really miss White Out. Best Dew flavor ever made…..
There’s no soda better than the original Mtn. Dew in glass bottles. Code Red is good but for some reason always gave me indigestion. Pitch Black was my #2 favorite Mtn. Dew, with the original being #1 of course.
Nothing can replace can sugar in lieu of corn syrup lol
It wasn’t mentioned here, but for a limited time they actually rereleased original mountain dew in the 2010s using cane sugar! I don’t know which of the historic recipes they used exactly but it featured the old hillbilly mascot and came in cans and glass bottles!
Mt Dew Throwback! @@jemm113
Its now marketed as "Mt Dew Real Sugar"
Red 40 and citrus is a bad mix I have the same issue especially if I don't eat b4
I have a potted history with Mountain Dew as a Brit. In the late 90s we had an amazing canned version that left your mouth yellow, but it was banned for being too wild. Then, in the mid 2000s I found an American importer on eBay and tried some of the US product, but it wasn't the same. Finally, some time in the mid 2010s, it came back as an 'energy drink' with the sub flavour 'Citrus Blast' and has stayed ever since. It's nothing like the one I loved from the 90s, but still a nice change.
Tried an Emirati imported Pitch Black recently and it was horrible!
I remember the old Mountain Dew jingle:
‘Drink Mountain Dew and you’ll discover, what’s inside quenches like no other, blend of citrus just for you, so smooth it goes down easy too’
BAha blast is 👍
I was hoping Weird History Food would talk about the return of Willy The Hillbilly and the old Mountain Dew formula being marketed as “Throw Back”. Although it’s not a permanently marketed Mountain Dew drink, I buy it when available. Mountain Dew’s competitor has always been Mello Yello, and 7-Up’s is Sprite. My favorite Mountain Dew is Code Red. While most of my military peers were drinking coffee in the morning, I drunk Mountain Dew. Like with most goodies when you approach middle age, I had to cut back on the drink because it was causing fast weight gain. I will drink it once in a while; especially while driving on long road trips.
Best flavor gotta be Baja Blast, its iconic at this point
I second that
Definitely, love Baja Blast
I drank Mt. Dew from age 8 until into my 40s. Towards the end, when I gave up drinking all sodas, I was drinking well over 2 liters of Code Red a day. I still kind of miss it, but won't ever go back.
Mountain Dew has a Major influence in NASCAR Sponsoring many drivers such as Darrell Waltrip, Bill Schmitt, Casey Atwood, Kasey Kahne, Jeremy Mayfield, Brian Vickers, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chase Elliott and Justin Haley
So?lol better when cigarettes companies sponsored it😂
Who cares about that?
@thefonzkiss I do, race fans and Mountain Dew connoisseurs.
Was really cool when Darrell Waltrip drove for Junior Johnson and was sponsored by Mountain Dew. #11 team Hollywood Hammond & Tim Brewer were crew chiefs.
Ah, Mountain Dew. Thanks as always Weird History Food for such awesome videos! I would love to see more videos on sodas
You guys have done surge, but how about some of the other "extreme" 90s soft drinks? Jolt, Josta, Sobe, Orbitz, Ecto Cooler, Fruitopia
Yes! Orbitz was my favorite drink as a teen.
I still crave Sobe Pina colada occasionally. I haven't found anything else like it.
@@HonestLeigh I was partial to the Power Dragonfruit. The Pina colada was a close second though.
The orginal SoBe Energy in the glass bottle heck almost any of the flavors in the glass bottles were better than anything now.
JOSTA! Such a unique flavor. It was gross, and delicious. Couldn't get enough of it.
Back in the 1960's when I was around 9 or 10 years old, my dad humorously told me and I fully believed him, that it was the authentic hillbillies themselves up in the mountains, who made and bottled Mountain Dew in their back yard. He also told me that the quarterback in football was so named, because if he accidentally dropped a quarter, the team would give it back to him. And butterflies come out of packages of butter. And blackbirds get that way from eating blackberries. And the clouds stay up in the sky and don't fall down because they are glued to the sky with a special glue
They used to make a Caffeine Free Mt. Dew (regular & diet both). I always preferred that. When I moved, it wasn't available where I was living, so I'd bring a case or two back with me every time I went back home. Now, it's been discontinued entirely. Bring back Caffeine Free Mt. Dew!
This!!!
IDK sounds kind of like "non-alcohollic Jack Daniels"... you COULD do it but it seems to defeat the fundamental intent of the beverage itself.
@@ingridfong-daley5899 There are lots of ways to get caffeine if one wants it. There's only 1 thing that tastes like Mt. Dew. So, for me, the intent IS the taste. And since it's so wildly over-caffeinated even compared with other caffeinated drinks, I almost never end up drinking my favorite soft drink. They made a huge mistake in discontinuing that version. I'd like to drink my favorite soft drink without having it make me ill. And since they don't give me that option, I'll choose anything else 999 times out of 1000. It tastes great, but it's just not worth what it does to me.
It's not a drink i like but my memory is of high school/college friends simply 'tolerating' the taste just to down that amount of caffeine.
I guess that was the days before energy drinks so people have plenty hi-octane options now. I just don't recall people liking the flavour so much as enduring it. :)@@VJacquette
Oh man, I remember Caffeine Free Mt. Dew too. It was like the decaf coffee option for teenagers. Same great taste, without the insomnia.
Mountain Dew is my favorite. I can't live with out it.Thanks for that vidio. My daughter loves it too.
My grandmother LOVED Mountain Dew. Whenever id visit her house in korea, I'd bring her a case. R.i.p
I cried , literally, when Mt. Dew changed over to corn syrup,and cried when they came out with the Throw Back, damn cant they quit playing with my emotions and leave perfect alone.😢
I just absolutely love these videos. Thank you for all that y'all do :)
I remember those goofy commercials with the hillbilly drinking Mountain Dew when I was a kid. Good soda ,drink one every so often. 👌
KFC has a "Sweet Lightning" flavor which is peach and honey flavored.
And it's amazing!
The video says it's Dollar General that carries Sweet Lightning, but that's obviously a mistake. DG has Maui Burst, a pineapple flavor that was a summer exclusive the year before COVID.
I love Mountain Dew......that's all I can say. I friggin love Mountain Dew. All flavors. Its amazing.
Did they say originally caffeine free? That definitely changed.
I'd love to try all the old versions of the Dew...the original, the first caffeinated version, the Tipp version, etc.
Didn’t realize that the new hard mtn dew was sort of the original vision of the brand, maybe. It would be cool if they released something to mix with bourbon, maybe do a collaboration
Bourbon is whiskey
What’s funny is is that for Mountain Dew being such an integral part of gamer and X games culture, it does seem in some parts to have returned to its country roots. In the Midwest during deer hunting season, I have seen Mountain Dew marketed with Hunter, orange colors and promoting deer hunting. so in a way it has kind of gone full circle.
Thanks for the video I'm gonna get some Mountain Dew right now.
I still have one of the tickle your inner's cups from the 1970s practically an antique by now.
As far as using Mountain Dew as a mixer for alcohol it goes excellent with Absente.
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
You'd have to drink gallons of pure yellow dye to have the contraceptive effects people were looking for. So much dye you would literally dye yourself yellow.
i accept your challenge
I call bullshit. I used to kill 2L a day of Diet Mountain Dew at minimum every day for years and never started turning yellow.
@@mattalan6618 Data is required.
Bro pitch black was so good. I actually cried when my mom couldn’t find it anywhere 😂
Mountain Dew is the GOAT!!!
I remember the old moonshiner, kicked back on his front porch, with his crossed legs perched on the porch rail - rifle sighted between his toes, yelling "Yahoo, Mountain Dew ! " ... :) The local competition in our area at the time was Kickapoo Joy Juice... :)
Honestly, i know some people who still use Mountain Dew as a mixer. I'm not far from its origin city, so maybe that's why 😂.
4 oz.Mtd to 8oz of sailor Jerry's it's my house drink😉
So what do they mix it with? I mean what is the best mix? Beam?
@@a.b.gibson6521 Beam? You washing floors? LOLOLOLOL...
@a.b.gibson6521 I've known people to use any liquor, really. Personally, I preferred rum or a citrus vodka, but it's up to personal taste.
JOLT COLA-- all the sugar TWICE the caffeine. I was hooked on it in high school back in the late 1980s. They try to stay afloat with other branded products like JOLT gum. I'd love to see a segment on this brand. Thank you
I forgot about Jolt! I haven't had it in decades but now I want one!.....Just saw the discontinued in 2019 :(
That gum was so weird, but my mom and I used to chew on one before we did Taekwondo tournaments in the late 90s/early 2000s. It tasted awful compared to the drink, but it was super effective at making us tweak out and alert lol
I'm having a mountain dew Right now
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I wish Sweet Lightening was not KFC only. Maybe they will release it like Baja Blast. I also like Live Wire and one of the blue ones. Maui Burst is pretty good too.
I love Mountain Dew!!!
She felt that chill that makes the hairs on the back of your neck when he walked into the room.
Moutain Dew or Crab Juice
Disgusting
I take a Crab Juice
😂
I havent thought of that Homer/Simpsons scene in a loooong time lol
Freedom of speech protects your right to be wrong.
Oh god that Dewmocracy segment really just threw me back lol. And that was like 30 years after it's been a thing🤣
I remember the hillbilly Dew from my youth in the late 60s and early 70s. The moment they abandoned this identity for the "Do the Dew" campaign, I had no urge to return to the drink.
Do the Dew started in the 90's. From the late 70's through the 80's it was "Gimmie a Dew" with people riding horses, muddin, monster trucks. All a Midwest/country vibe with water. Lots and lots of water.
@@seththomas9105 There was a certain charm with that hillbilly persona. Like McDonalds and Ronald and his friends. Once lost, the product becomes non-descript. The funny thing was, my parents had no idea they were filling us up on caffeine. Same thing with Mom making unsweetened ice tea for us in the refrigerator. I'm surprised my siblings and I all don't have ADHD.today.
Loved this video. Mt Dew has been my favorite soda for decades.
Definitely Pitch Black is my favorite. Although... Sweet Lightning is so good. I do love that mango flavor.
Sweet Lightning is peach, not mango