You missed the biggest change which was the introduction of high fructrose corn syrup instead of sugar in the late 80s. This forever changed the real classic taste to its deferment in my opinion. Nothing beat a bottle of Mountain Dew in the early 1980s.
No mention of "Ball Drop" Mountain Dew? You know? The kind where you had to dip your nuts in it to get super carbonation? It had a commercial and a song, "dip your nuts in our drinks my friend, super bubbly slick and lovely, keep those drawers down, the real fun begins..." My uncle wiggling Bob and his twin brother Neal gave it to us youngsters all the time. They sang the song and all because we didn't have no TV.
The green bottles of the 70s, with the very 70s font and layout, and the advertising that was all about the outdoors - this actually still hits a spot of nostalgia for me.
@ 5:08 I have what I always thought was an early Mountain Dew bottle just like that. I found it in the woods at Scout Camp in the early 70s in Gore Virginia, the childhood home of Patsy Kline.
@@echang1976 You can thank the delivery drivers with Pepsi for everything tasting like plastic vs the cold & refreshing taste from glass bottles. Often, nearly 100% of the times, trucks are loaded for the pop to be delivered the night before. Nights would be cool or freezing cold. The next day heat would hit the truck with the Aluminum sided & then a driver might dive his hands into broken glass & guess whose outta work sometimes that would be the end of the career, company would be out of money for the hospital visits, not visit & on & on. Of course there were other ways of slicing yous hands up as well. While there is pop sold in glass bottles Pepsi & Coke will leave theirs to commercials. Jerking the public off with the idea that you'll only be refreshed drinking, in this case Mt Dew, outta a glass bottle. By the way, I was so addicted to this stuff it introduced me to becoming a Type 11 Diabetic. I was so addicted, I, one time only, drank 6 20oz.bottles in 30 minutes.
@@ericcrawford7207 It's a little different in plastic vs glass & to be honest with you I drink Diet or Mountain Dew Zero (no sugar). If there are any differences it might have been a little stronger yrs ago. Mountain Dew, that I remember was a beverage that took awhile to find itself in wanting to appeal to everyone. In the South there already were beverages that were similar to Mt. Dew in the North I think people here were not initially impressed. Fargo is a homemade beverage & if they had anything similar people were, still are, loyal to the home team. Ever hear of Vernon's? It's made here. Owned by Pepsi. Here they call it Ginger Ale. There's only one Ginger Ale & Vernors ain't it. It's made across the river in Canada by Canada Dry. I'll probably never give up drink pop, cola or whatever you call it. It's from denile. Mom would drink TAB, yuck & Diet Rite but keep it warm. If we kids put 'em over ice it took forever to get cold. At times temptation would get the better of us & we'd have it warm. Karma bit mom in the but once where the bottles got near hot in the dry goods closet where she would store the stuff & the fridge was just that cold. Put a hot glass bottle in a cold fridge & yep, it exploded. She cut herself tho' not too bad & made a mess everywhere. She cussed & wondered what happened. I told her then left the kitchen. Best not to stick around.
@@ericcrawford7207 I haven't had old school Dew in forever. My memory is from being a school kid. It strikes me that it was sweeter. I think this has to do with the use of cane sugar vs. corn syrup. It seems more cloying and sticky now, but not as sweet. But my palate has changed a lot since the early 1970's. I liked the glass bottles better. I drank My. Dew mostly when it was hot outside. The glass kept tho drink cooler.
Distortion was my favorite. They also tried marketing a breakfast drink, that they still sell, and three smaller can products, at least one mixed with cactus juice. Black label: white label, and green label which implied that they were spiked with alcohol but unlike Hard Mountain Dew, they were alcohol free.
I still remember thefirst Dew I ever had...my grandpa bought it for me in the late '60s - early '70s. I instantly liked it, and I have been drinking it ever since.
25 years ago or so, my folks hired some Amish folks to re-Roof our home. One day My Mom was going out to the convenience store and asked the Amish folks if they needed anything, they asked for Mountain Dew in a very thick Dutch/Amish accent, it was hilarious, you had to be there.
I spent the summer of 1965 near Xenia, Ohio. It was there that I met Mountain Dew. WOW! We didn't know about this back home. When I went home to Nebraska I raved about it to my friends. It was a few years before distribution reached us.
I am nearly 69, and have lived in South Louisiana all my life. If M.D. was created in 1940, it did not hit the shelves at stores until about 1966 or '67; and initially did not make much of an impact in the soft drink market . But it gradually grew in popularity. I've always found M.D. a soft drink you either love emphatically, or can't stand at all!
You’re correct! That’s when it hit our grocery stores in the Washington DC area. “Yahoo - Mountain Dew!” I also remember their rival “Kickapoo Joy Juice” featuring the characters from L’il Abner in the advertising.
@@briangriffin4937 Thanks for response! I never heard of Kickapoo Joy Juice (outside of the L'il Abner comic strip). But, a long time ago in South Louisiana, we had regionally produced and distributed soft drinks that were only found locally.
Wow, the retro commercial blasted back some 80s' memories! I love Mtn Dew. During my junior and senior years of high school (early 90s) I ran on the school's track & field team. Every day after practice I would get two cans of Dew from the vending machine and immediately down the first can, then nurse the second.
Our track coach in the late '60s wouldn't let us drink it because he claimed it would 'cut our wind'. I have never seen any evidence of that in the ensuing 50+ years.
I'm not a Mountain Dew drinker, though I am a certified redneck from Alabama. Not quite a professional redneck though, because I do go to the dentist and take care of my teeth. Several years ago I decided to try out a new dentist, and I had to fill out the normal new patient form. Going down the list of questions, I laughed. The ONLY beverage of any kind that the form asked if I regularly drank was Mountain Dew. It's absolutely the worst possible thing you can drink if you like having good teeth lol.
My first exposure to Mountain Dew was as a kid in the mid 70's. when we visited my Grandparents down in Kentucky. I don't remember seeing it up North where we lived.
Back in '78-'79 I worked at a gas station and I set the pop machine so ice crystals would form when the can was opened. I did it for me but it turned out it brought in a lot of customers. Mt. Dew was the goto when it was warm out.
A 16oz. GLASS BOTTLE of ice cold Mountain Dew (Now impossible to find), and a package of some of those nuclear orange peanut butter crackers from the local gas station on a Saturday morning made hangovers go away back in the 1980's
@@ericwilliams9440 it’s still not the same as the taste I grew up with in the early 1980s. The throwback has a weird bitterness to it that the original sugar recipe did not. The corn syrup ruined it in my opinion.
@@ericwilliams9440 Few years ago they had in my area a limited run with sugar. It was not near as good but I could drink it. I drink Mt. Dew I remember clear back in mid 1960s. That was close but not correct or near as good. That new mt. Dew I can't drink it. I could drink that limited run of Dew but there new dew I walk right by it. I feel they ruined the taste of it.
I grew up in Marion, Virginia..... the home of Mountain Dew. My parents told me that a man by the name of Bill Jones invented it, or at least, had the rights to it before he sold it to PepsiCo. Bill and his wife lived in my neighborhood, and there was a bottling plant downtown where you could see the glass bottles of soda working their way down the conveyor belt as you drove by the plant.
@@UrBlackShadowz Did you drink Mountain Dew? I still remember climbing the steepest road that I had ever seen as a kid up to the top of Radio Hill Road, and going into the radio station just to get a .35 Mountain Dew or Yoohoo out of the vending machine.
@@mikekokomomike Saltville is in the same county as Marion, but I didn't get over there too often because there wasn't a direct road from Marion to Saltville. You had to drive to Chilhowie and then take the road from Chilhowie to Saltville. As for the companies, I haven't heard of them.
@@BrylcreemBill yep. Plasterco Virginia was a town that caved in from a gypsum mine under it. Lick Skillet was a village north of Saltville. Beautiful countryside
I worked for Tri-City Beverage well after they split with Mountain Dew. They make "Dr. Enuf" now. It's a long running regional success around Northeast Tennessee, as you might expect. Great Video.
@@MrTruckerf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Enuf Dr. Enuf is widely distributed in the Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City region of Northeast Tennessee, plus parts of southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina.
the first mountain dew i remember drinking was in early to mid 60's-when i was maybe 12-it was absolutely the best tasting then-they put fruit pulp in it ,i believe was grapefruit so you shook it up before drinking -also i lived less than 10 miles from the bottler in johnson city tn.,it was located right beside the road and you could watch the bottling process right from your car through the glass walls
I live in the Tri-Cities region where in Johnson City is Tri-City beverage corp, where Mountain Dew was bottled. The bottles around here all have "Tennessee Original" on them. Tricity beverage still bottles a soft drink, though much more localized, Dr Enuf.
So far as I know, Dr. Enuf is only available in the Tri-Cities. When I worked for the State in the 2000s, a coworker who was from Nashville would always stop and buy case of Dr. Enuf to take back to Nashville.
I grew up in the Chattanooga area: a little place called Soddy-Daisy to be more specific, in the early 60s. I definitely remember having some Mountain Dew and seeing the commercials on TV with the hillbillies and other characters that looked like they could have come from a Li'l Abner cartoon. There was another soft drink available in Tennessee back then with a hillbilly motif called Frosty root beer. The clear bottles were formed with icicles molded into the glass.
I remember Frostie Root Beer.Remember Grapette? I have a Grapette bottle cap sign on my man cave door. Interesting how many soft drinks came out of the south. Grapette-Arkansas. Royal Crown Cola-Georgia. Frostie Root Beer-Maryland. Barq's Root Beer-Missippi. Seven Up-Missouri. AAA Root Beer-Oklahoma. Pepsi-North Carolina. Triple X Root Beer'-Texas. Dr Pepper-Texas. Last But By No Means Least,The Mack Daddy Of Em' All Coca Cola-Georgia. Now I know some of you will point out that Maryland and aren't true southern states. And you may be right.I may be crazy.But it just may be a lunatic your'e looking for. OOPS!! Sorry about that!!Somehow that Billy Joel song got in my noggin!! Anyway I consider Maryland and Missouri southern in the sense that they were slave states of divided loyalties that stayed in the Union Now Texas and Oklahoma are geographically and culturally where the south ends and the west begins.
Mtn. Dew was my favorite soda as a child of the 60's . I drank it a lot when we went on the road with my dad. One time we were driving through Glacier National Park, and my dad stopped on the side of the road to capture some snow melt run-off into an empty Mtn. Dew bottle. He said, "Here, try some REAL Mountain Dew". The soda was better, but I'm glad I did not become an addict - it has way too much sugar. I ate Capn' Crunch cereal instead.
I first saw it in the mid 60's with the "It'll tickle your innards" tagline. I liked it, even though it was really too sweet, even for a kid. The taste today is not much like it was back then, although, if you can grab one of the "Throwback" versions (made with real cane sugar instead of HFC syrup) when Pepsico releases them every now and then, that seems pretty close.
Apparently the first lemon-lime soda was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", now known as 7 UP. It was invented in October 1929. When mixed with Seven Crown Burbon it is known as a "7 and 7", That highball drink probably superseded the Hartman brother's favorite mixed drink by a decade or two. Mountain Dew is too sweet for my tastes as a mixer but is OK straight out of the bottle.😁👌
To mix Mountain Dew, it really depends on which flavour and with what. The Purple Thunder flavour went great with tequila. The flavour was available earlier this Summer. I tried the other flavour with tequila and it was pretty bad. The Baja Flash from last year tasted of piña colada.
@@colonialstraits1069 I'm old enough to remember Mountain Dew in a returnable bottle with the hillbilly and in Missouri a 7 & 7 was and still is a Seagram's Seven Crown with 7up that's why it's called an 7 & 7. If you want to mix it with Dew you will be disappointed if you order a 7 & 7.
My buddy who will be 60 this years has to be the bigger Mountain Dew fan ever he was at my house this past weekend at 8.30 am got out of his car with a bottle of Mountain Dew
I remember Mountain Dew in the late 70s actually having pulp in it! Too long ago to remember how it tasted, but it has been my go to soft drink for almost 50 years!
I remember drinking my first Dew around 1970 in a can. In the early '70s I had a bottle and IT had pulp in it-at first it scared me and my friends and I dumped it out.
Never a fan of Mountain Dew during the sixties, but they had a promotional contest to win a kid size gas powered model-t then and remember how much I wanted that car.
Mountain Dew Red was test marketed in Knoxville as well. I remember seeing it in Kroger stores for a few months, then disappeared. I absolutely adored Red '88. It's still my second favorite soda of all time. I really wish they'd re-release it even if it is for a limited time.
@monkeywkeys3916 Red 1988 is completely different than Code Red. Code Red is a Cherry Limeade flavored soda. Red 88 was a Fruit Punch flavor. The really sad thing is, Mountain Dew/PepsiCo refuses to believe Red 88 ever existed.
Growing up with Mountain Dew in the seventies, I don’t remember the “It’ll tickle yore innards” tagline. Instead I saw ads that said, “YA-HOO!!! Mountain Dew!!”, with the hillbilly getting a shot in the hat with the exploding cork. Then he disappeared around 1973, as you said. Those were the days when it was made with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, and I swear it tasted better back then.
Yep I too grew up in the early, mid and late '60''s early '70's and onward. I remember them dropping the " it'll tickle your innards" bottles. I turned 12 in '73. I was a huge pop drinker! I had cousins from Kansas City make fun of me because I lived in small town Arkansas but they weren't distributing them that far North I guess because they drank all the Mountain Dew they could when they were here. So I like so many of you 'Baby Boomer's' have a long history with 'the Dew" as we called it. We gotta get some more 'Dew' because we're amount out call's were a phrase I heard in the late 70's and early to mid '80's often. And of course I loved a nice cold 10 ounce bottle of Mt. Dew. The green bottle with the white and red paint that you could feel the texture of the paint vs. bottle world..... Yeah you can tell I need another 'Dew'; it's been over 15 minutes! LOL🤣
For a number of years, I had the job of ordering the flavoring concentrates for a bottling plant. Mountain Dew was such a big seller for us, that we would have back to back days that the only flavor we bottled would be Mountain Dew. In May and June it represented about 40% of all the pop we sold.
@@DesertSessions93 Of course that is a secret. But basically it is 86+% water; 12.6% sugar derived from corn syrup: additives to inhibit spoilage like Sodium Benzoate; Citric Acid to give it some zing: and a flavoring compound that has Oranges as its core ingredient. And don't forget the carbonation. We would batch the syrup 8000 gallons at a time. That made 21,336 cases of 12 ounce cans. Half a million individual cans. That was about 4 hours production time. The plant I worked in made about 40 million cases of pop a year.
notice how more or less top brands capitalize on extreme sports and such... gopro, redbull, dji... seems like if you want to get rich then advertise with extreme sports in the background of your vids and pics -
The best ad campaign was 1980 or 81...the teens with the intertubes rolling down the hill into the river. "GIve Me A Dew". Reminds me of the old days of Deep Creek, Maryland.
...Let me see, it was 1968, I was 5yo and we were camping near the Grand Canyon. The place had a pool and from the pool you could see a gas station across the street. We went there for sodas, you know the old glass bottles...which always tasted better! They had the vending machine that you opened the door to pull out your choice, I pulled out Mountain Dew and it was Nirvana!! The best soda ever on the hottest day!
Besides the original and Baja Blast my favorite is Red, White and Dew. It's only been available a couple of years around July 4th. I stock up whenever it's released
In the mid-Sixties, my family took a road trip from Washington State to Los Angeles at a time when my brothers and I were hooked on Mountain Dew. We must have driven our parents crazy shouting, “Wah-hoo, Mountain Dew!” All the way down the coast.
For me it was McDonalds in the 1970s. My parents couldn't avoid stopping there because their 2 year old son kept crying everytime they passed one. 40 some odd years later, that son AVOIDs that place like the plague.
Around 1967 "mountain dew" appeared in machines (cans) in my area. Nobody wanted to be the first to try it. I ended up getting a can of 'mountain dww' 10¢ along with 3 McDonald Cheeseburgers and fires (Only available in what is now the small) for less than a Dollar U.S. as Lunch. I stopped buying 'mountain dew' when the Orange flavour became too noticeable. I liked the 'red' but it disappeared from the Wal*Mart store shelves.
Growing up outside Detroit, in the middle 60s, I remember the little hillbilly guy yelling yaaah hooo, it's mountain dew ! on the TV commercials ...I used to buy it out of the skinny doored, glass pop bottle machines. .10 cents.... .2 cents on bottle return.
I, too, grew up in the Detroit area. North of Detroit near Woodward and 11 Mile. Graduated high school in '68. Remember the deposit bottles back then with "Filled by . . . " with two names? Like "Filled by Pat and Mary"? And poured in a clear glass was just about the right shade of yellow . . .
I still have some of the 70's bottles I collected as a kid. I have all the different "filled by:" bottles e.g. "Filled by Essie and Bill". The guy on the bottle was shooting at a guy in the distance running away by a moon door outhouse. I assume the guy running was messing around with the rifleman's daughter.
As a,kid in the 60 didn't live but just a few miles from Johnson city use to pick up bottles out of the road ditches and exchange them for a bottle of mountain dew and candy lol
When the ten year exclusive with Taco Bell ended, the rite aid I worked at got a case of 20 oz Baha Blast. Was it incorporated into the cooler? No way! We kept it in the back for us to buy😂
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You missed the biggest change which was the introduction of high fructrose corn syrup instead of sugar in the late 80s. This forever changed the real classic taste to its deferment in my opinion. Nothing beat a bottle of Mountain Dew in the early 1980s.
Its sad that most people now won't get to taste the original. Thanks for watching
The high Fructose corn syrup is a main contributor to obesity. Go back to sugar
alzeppelin, you're absolutely right. The new stuff is good, but not what it used to be.
@@mikesmith-po8nd its sad that they have to mess with the flavor
@@johngreen3543 probably taste better too
When I was a kid, Mountain Dew was the original energy drink.
A good reason for that: Mountain Dew has 50% more caffeine than regular Pepsi or Coke. It also has has 15% more sugar than regular Pepsi.
That's a very accurate statement right there!!!
When I was a kid, the original energy drink of my era was definitely Jolt Cola, lol.
My generation had surge and then vault
@jdd3786/ Before Gator-aide it was Water, Mountain Dew or Squirt.
No mention of "Ball Drop" Mountain Dew? You know? The kind where you had to dip your nuts in it to get super carbonation? It had a commercial and a song, "dip your nuts in our drinks my friend, super bubbly slick and lovely, keep those drawers down, the real fun begins..."
My uncle wiggling Bob and his twin brother Neal gave it to us youngsters all the time. They sang the song and all because we didn't have no TV.
I grew up in small town Idaho. The “bad kids” drank Mountain Dew, the “good kids” drank Sprite.
I drank Pepsi, I guess I was somewhere in between. 😉
The green bottles of the 70s, with the very 70s font and layout, and the advertising that was all about the outdoors - this actually still hits a spot of nostalgia for me.
Nope not it the biggest change was the MtnD in the name- the name was still associated with the Bootlegged Whiskey drink.
It was later distributed by Seven Up -Royal Crown and later by Pepsi.
😅could you imagine if they went back to Tri City?
They even used legal booze too. Billed as Hard.
Calling it real Mountain Dew.
@ 5:08 I have what I always thought was an early Mountain Dew bottle just like that. I found it in the woods at Scout Camp in the early 70s in Gore Virginia, the childhood home of Patsy Kline.
I grew up drinking the Dew from returnable glass bottles. I mostly remember the ones with the cork from the jug going through Willy's hat.
nice
@@echang1976 You can thank the delivery drivers with Pepsi for everything tasting like plastic vs the cold & refreshing taste from glass bottles. Often, nearly 100% of the times, trucks are loaded for the pop to be delivered the night before. Nights would be cool or freezing cold. The next day heat would hit the truck with the Aluminum sided & then a driver might dive his hands into broken glass & guess whose outta work sometimes that would be the end of the career, company would be out of money for the hospital visits, not visit & on & on. Of course there were other ways of slicing yous hands up as well. While there is pop sold in glass bottles Pepsi & Coke will leave theirs to commercials. Jerking the public off with the idea that you'll only be refreshed drinking, in this case Mt Dew, outta a glass bottle. By the way, I was so addicted to this stuff it introduced me to becoming a Type 11 Diabetic. I was so addicted, I, one time only, drank 6 20oz.bottles in 30 minutes.
Do you remember if it had the same flavor as it does now? I have a vintage Willy bottle and have been wondering what the drink was like back then
@@ericcrawford7207 It's a little different in plastic vs glass & to be honest with you I drink Diet or Mountain Dew Zero (no sugar). If there are any differences it might have been a little stronger yrs ago. Mountain Dew, that I remember was a beverage that took awhile to find itself in wanting to appeal to everyone. In the South there already were beverages that were similar to Mt. Dew in the North I think people here were not initially impressed. Fargo is a homemade beverage & if they had anything similar people were, still are, loyal to the home team. Ever hear of Vernon's? It's made here. Owned by Pepsi. Here they call it Ginger Ale. There's only one Ginger Ale & Vernors ain't it. It's made across the river in Canada by Canada Dry. I'll probably never give up drink pop, cola or whatever you call it. It's from denile. Mom would drink TAB, yuck & Diet Rite but keep it warm. If we kids put 'em over ice it took forever to get cold. At times temptation would get the better of us & we'd have it warm. Karma bit mom in the but once where the bottles got near hot in the dry goods closet where she would store the stuff & the fridge was just that cold. Put a hot glass bottle in a cold fridge & yep, it exploded. She cut herself tho' not too bad & made a mess everywhere. She cussed & wondered what happened. I told her then left the kitchen. Best not to stick around.
@@ericcrawford7207 I haven't had old school Dew in forever. My memory is from being a school kid. It strikes me that it was sweeter. I think this has to do with the use of cane sugar vs. corn syrup. It seems more cloying and sticky now, but not as sweet. But my palate has changed a lot since the early 1970's. I liked the glass bottles better. I drank My. Dew mostly when it was hot outside. The glass kept tho drink cooler.
Distortion was my favorite. They also tried marketing a breakfast drink, that they still sell, and three smaller can products, at least one mixed with cactus juice. Black label: white label, and green label which implied that they were spiked with alcohol but unlike Hard Mountain Dew, they were alcohol free.
I still remember thefirst Dew I ever had...my grandpa bought it for me in the late '60s - early '70s. I instantly liked it, and I have been drinking it ever since.
I've been drinking Mountain dew for over 50 years I have a can ever day
I could drink Mountain dew everyday
There was a song called Mountain Dew which was bluegrass/country sounding
25 years ago or so, my folks hired some Amish folks to re-Roof our home. One day My Mom was going out to the convenience store and asked the Amish folks if they needed anything, they asked for Mountain Dew in a very thick Dutch/Amish accent, it was hilarious, you had to be there.
I spent the summer of 1965 near Xenia, Ohio. It was there that I met Mountain Dew. WOW! We didn't know about this back home. When I went home to Nebraska I raved about it to my friends. It was a few years before distribution reached us.
You are basically a fossil
I am nearly 69, and have lived in South Louisiana all my life. If M.D. was created in 1940, it did not hit the shelves at stores until about 1966 or '67; and initially did not make much of an impact in the soft drink market .
But it gradually grew in popularity.
I've always found M.D. a soft drink you either love emphatically, or can't stand at all!
You’re correct! That’s when it hit our grocery stores in the Washington DC area. “Yahoo - Mountain Dew!” I also remember their rival “Kickapoo Joy Juice” featuring the characters from L’il Abner in the advertising.
@@briangriffin4937 Thanks for response!
I never heard of Kickapoo Joy Juice (outside of the L'il Abner comic strip).
But, a long time ago in South Louisiana, we had regionally produced and distributed soft drinks that were only found locally.
Wow, the retro commercial blasted back some 80s' memories! I love Mtn Dew. During my junior and senior years of high school (early 90s) I ran on the school's track & field team. Every day after practice I would get two cans of Dew from the vending machine and immediately down the first can, then nurse the second.
Our track coach in the late '60s wouldn't let us drink it because he claimed it would 'cut our wind'. I have never seen any evidence of that in the ensuing 50+ years.
@@MrTruckerf not even on your own time? Or just during track meets and practice?
I'm not a Mountain Dew drinker, though I am a certified redneck from Alabama. Not quite a professional redneck though, because I do go to the dentist and take care of my teeth. Several years ago I decided to try out a new dentist, and I had to fill out the normal new patient form. Going down the list of questions, I laughed. The ONLY beverage of any kind that the form asked if I regularly drank was Mountain Dew. It's absolutely the worst possible thing you can drink if you like having good teeth lol.
My first exposure to Mountain Dew was as a kid in the mid 70's. when we visited my Grandparents down in Kentucky. I don't remember seeing it up North where we lived.
Was original recipe really made of cats urine
Back in '78-'79 I worked at a gas station and I set the pop machine so ice crystals would form when the can was opened. I did it for me but it turned out it brought in a lot of customers. Mt. Dew was the goto when it was warm out.
I miss mountain dew and the south
A 16oz. GLASS BOTTLE of ice cold Mountain Dew (Now impossible to find), and a package of some of those nuclear orange peanut butter crackers from the local gas station on a Saturday morning made hangovers go away back in the 1980's
I wish they'd bring back the Mountain Dew from the 1970s, something changed in the 1980s and it's never been as good.
If u can find it they are making it with real suger,it taste different than the other made with fructose syrup.
Real sugar makes all the difference in the world!
Mt. Dew Throw back is made with cane sugar. I believe it's still in production.
@@ericwilliams9440 it’s still not the same as the taste I grew up with in the early 1980s. The throwback has a weird bitterness to it that the original sugar recipe did not. The corn syrup ruined it in my opinion.
@@ericwilliams9440
Few years ago they had in my area a limited run with sugar. It was not near as good but I could drink it. I drink Mt. Dew I remember clear back in mid 1960s. That was close but not correct or near as good. That new mt. Dew I can't drink it. I could drink that limited run of Dew but there new dew I walk right by it. I feel they ruined the taste of it.
The bottling plants was printed on the bottle.
what ever happened to quench???
I grew up in Marion, Virginia..... the home of Mountain Dew. My parents told me that a man by the name of Bill Jones invented it, or at least, had the rights to it before he sold it to PepsiCo. Bill and his wife lived in my neighborhood, and there was a bottling plant downtown where you could see the glass bottles of soda working their way down the conveyor belt as you drove by the plant.
I grew up in Marion too
@@UrBlackShadowz Did you drink Mountain Dew? I still remember climbing the steepest road that I had ever seen as a kid up to the top of Radio Hill Road, and going into the radio station just to get a .35 Mountain Dew or Yoohoo out of the vending machine.
I have been to Saltville and what was left of Plasterco, you ever hear of them or Lick Skillet?
@@mikekokomomike Saltville is in the same county as Marion, but I didn't get over there too often because there wasn't a direct road from Marion to Saltville. You had to drive to Chilhowie and then take the road from Chilhowie to Saltville. As for the companies, I haven't heard of them.
@@BrylcreemBill yep. Plasterco Virginia was a town that caved in from a gypsum mine under it. Lick Skillet was a village north of Saltville. Beautiful countryside
I've got Mountain Dew and Crab Juice.
I worked for Tri-City Beverage well after they split with Mountain Dew. They make "Dr. Enuf" now. It's a long running regional success around Northeast Tennessee, as you might expect. Great Video.
So far as I am aware, Dr. Enuf is not available outside the Tri-Cities.
Dr. Enuf? What exactly is that supposed to mean? Odd name.
@@MrTruckerf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Enuf
Dr. Enuf is widely distributed in the Bristol-Kingsport-Johnson City region of Northeast Tennessee, plus parts of southwestern Virginia and western North Carolina.
@@MrTruckerf Basically they were going for a unique spelling of "Enough." As in all that you need.
the first mountain dew i remember drinking was in early to mid 60's-when i was maybe 12-it was absolutely the best tasting then-they put fruit pulp in it ,i believe was grapefruit so you shook it up before drinking -also i lived less than 10 miles from the bottler in johnson city tn.,it was located right beside the road and you could watch the bottling process right from your car through the glass walls
And if they stuck with glass bottles you wouldn't be hearing them holler about plastic bottles
All I want is throwback mountain dew!!! Can't find it anymore!
Look for Mtn Dew. That's how it's written now.
I live in the Tri-Cities region where in Johnson City is Tri-City beverage corp, where Mountain Dew was bottled. The bottles around here all have "Tennessee Original" on them. Tricity beverage still bottles a soft drink, though much more localized, Dr Enuf.
Hello from Bluff City!
hi from Jonesborough!
@@patrickdeel4283 Hi from Jonesborough!
So far as I know, Dr. Enuf is only available in the Tri-Cities. When I worked for the State in the 2000s, a coworker who was from Nashville would always stop and buy case of Dr. Enuf to take back to Nashville.
@@kalinystazvoruna8702 Ah, I don't get reply notifications on comments. Hello from Erwin!
I am 63 years old, Grew up in the 60s on Mt.Dew. Loved it then and now I dont think its as good now as the 60s but love it
Nothing's as good now as in the sixties.
@@k.b.tidwell agreed
Ill stick with mellow yellow. When i can find it
My wife and I are Diet Mt Dew addicts! Love learning the history!
I grew up in the Chattanooga area: a little place called Soddy-Daisy to be more specific, in the early 60s. I definitely remember having some Mountain Dew and seeing the commercials on TV with the hillbillies and other characters that looked like they could have come from a Li'l Abner cartoon. There was another soft drink available in Tennessee back then with a hillbilly motif called Frosty root beer. The clear bottles were formed with icicles molded into the glass.
Funny,I have about 6flavors of Frosty's,in the fridge,root beer is the favorite for guests,eastern Carolina, food lion carries the brand here.F.Y.I.
I remember Frostie Root Beer.Remember Grapette?
I have a Grapette bottle cap sign on my man cave door.
Interesting how many soft drinks came out of the south.
Grapette-Arkansas.
Royal Crown Cola-Georgia.
Frostie Root Beer-Maryland.
Barq's Root Beer-Missippi.
Seven Up-Missouri.
AAA Root Beer-Oklahoma.
Pepsi-North Carolina.
Triple X Root Beer'-Texas.
Dr Pepper-Texas.
Last But By No Means Least,The Mack Daddy Of Em' All Coca Cola-Georgia.
Now I know some of you will point out that Maryland and aren't true southern states.
And you may be right.I may be crazy.But it just may be a lunatic your'e looking for.
OOPS!!
Sorry about that!!Somehow that Billy Joel song got in my noggin!!
Anyway I consider Maryland and Missouri southern in the sense that they were slave states of divided loyalties that stayed in the Union
Now Texas and Oklahoma are geographically and culturally where the south ends and the west begins.
I still buy Frostie root beer. It’s by far the best. Made in Detroit.
Ah! Soddy Daisy home to the National Model Railroad Association.
@@cdjhyoung Should hear the complaints about the real railroad when it blocks the crossings for too long in Soddy-Daisy.
Throwback Mountain Dew is missed !!! Bring it back. The real sugar !
Yahooooo for Mountain Dew !!! ⚡️🤙🏻😎🥤
Mtn. Dew was my favorite soda as a child of the 60's . I drank it a lot when we went on the road with my dad. One time we were driving through Glacier National Park, and my dad stopped on the side of the road to capture some snow melt run-off into an empty Mtn. Dew bottle. He said, "Here, try some REAL Mountain Dew". The soda was better, but I'm glad I did not become an addict - it has way too much sugar. I ate Capn' Crunch cereal instead.
Do a Canada Dry episode
I first saw it in the mid 60's with the "It'll tickle your innards" tagline. I liked it, even though it was really too sweet, even for a kid. The taste today is not much like it was back then, although, if you can grab one of the "Throwback" versions (made with real cane sugar instead of HFC syrup) when Pepsico releases them every now and then, that seems pretty close.
Entered Chicago in the early 60s. ( 62/64 ) The yah hoo mountian dew TV commercials had a hillbilly theme.
Apparently the first lemon-lime soda was "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", now known as 7 UP. It was invented in October 1929. When mixed with Seven Crown Burbon it is known as a "7 and 7", That highball drink probably superseded the Hartman brother's favorite mixed drink by a decade or two. Mountain Dew is too sweet for my tastes as a mixer but is OK straight out of the bottle.😁👌
thank you for the history lesson. Thanks for watching
In Michigan, Seagram’s 7 Crown Canadian Whiskey is the spirit in a 7 & 7.
To mix Mountain Dew, it really depends on which flavour and with what.
The Purple Thunder flavour went great with tequila. The flavour was available earlier this Summer. I tried the other flavour with tequila and it was pretty bad.
The Baja Flash from last year tasted of piña colada.
@@colonialstraits1069 nice
@@colonialstraits1069 I'm old enough to remember Mountain Dew in a returnable bottle with the hillbilly and in Missouri a 7 & 7 was and still is a Seagram's Seven Crown with 7up that's why it's called an 7 & 7. If you want to mix it with Dew you will be disappointed if you order a 7 & 7.
My buddy who will be 60 this years has to be the bigger Mountain Dew fan ever he was at my house this past weekend at 8.30 am got out of his car with a bottle of Mountain Dew
I remember Mountain Dew in the late 70s actually having pulp in it! Too long ago to remember how it tasted, but it has been my go to soft drink for almost 50 years!
I remember drinking my first Dew around 1970 in a can. In the early '70s I had a bottle and IT had pulp in it-at first it scared me and my friends and I dumped it out.
I recently dug up an old returnable Mountian Dew bottle... At an old still site in the Sandhills of NC. Just a bit of Americana.
awesome
Never a fan of Mountain Dew during the sixties, but they had a promotional contest to win a kid size gas powered model-t then and remember how much I wanted that car.
I have a dysfunctional relationship with MD, I love and hate it.
My wife would say the same about me. I love her and she loves to hate me.
"Perfect Set-up"? Damned if THAT doesn't say "Mix me with booze"!!
Mountain Dew Red was test marketed in Knoxville as well. I remember seeing it in Kroger stores for a few months, then disappeared. I absolutely adored Red '88. It's still my second favorite soda of all time. I really wish they'd re-release it even if it is for a limited time.
They had code red in 2005
@monkeywkeys3916 Red 1988 is completely different than Code Red. Code Red is a Cherry Limeade flavored soda. Red 88 was a Fruit Punch flavor. The really sad thing is, Mountain Dew/PepsiCo refuses to believe Red 88 ever existed.
@@Diskoboy1974sounds like we're from the same place and around the same age.
Growing up with Mountain Dew in the seventies, I don’t remember the “It’ll tickle yore innards” tagline. Instead I saw ads that said, “YA-HOO!!! Mountain Dew!!”, with the hillbilly getting a shot in the hat with the exploding cork. Then he disappeared around 1973, as you said. Those were the days when it was made with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, and I swear it tasted better back then.
I was in first grade when Mountain Dew hit us after Pepsi bought it. Life would never be the same.
No it wasn't. Thanks for watchng
Yeppers, one drink of that wild Mountain Dew, it changed my innards!! #MTDewHabit
So, true after Pepsi Co. Bought mountain dew it's a pale imitation of what it used be
Got hooked on the Dew in the 70’s. Still my goto soft drink, after sweet tea.
Yep I too grew up in the early, mid and late '60''s early '70's and onward. I remember them dropping the " it'll tickle your innards" bottles. I turned 12 in '73. I was a huge pop drinker! I had cousins from Kansas City make fun of me because I lived in small town Arkansas but they weren't distributing them that far North I guess because they drank all the Mountain Dew they could when they were here. So I like so many of you 'Baby Boomer's' have a long history with 'the Dew" as we called it. We gotta get some more 'Dew' because we're amount out call's were a phrase I heard in the late 70's and early to mid '80's often. And of course I loved a nice cold 10 ounce bottle of Mt. Dew. The green bottle with the white and red paint that you could feel the texture of the paint vs. bottle world..... Yeah you can tell I need another 'Dew'; it's been over 15 minutes! LOL🤣
For a number of years, I had the job of ordering the flavoring concentrates for a bottling plant. Mountain Dew was such a big seller for us, that we would have back to back days that the only flavor we bottled would be Mountain Dew. In May and June it represented about 40% of all the pop we sold.
So what's in Mt dew?
@@DesertSessions93 Of course that is a secret. But basically it is 86+% water; 12.6% sugar derived from corn syrup: additives to inhibit spoilage like Sodium Benzoate; Citric Acid to give it some zing: and a flavoring compound that has Oranges as its core ingredient. And don't forget the carbonation. We would batch the syrup 8000 gallons at a time. That made 21,336 cases of 12 ounce cans. Half a million individual cans. That was about 4 hours production time. The plant I worked in made about 40 million cases of pop a year.
The sign that said MARION is Marion, VA. Great little town 👍
notice how more or less top brands capitalize on extreme sports and such... gopro, redbull, dji...
seems like if you want to get rich then advertise with extreme sports in the background of your vids and pics -
that is true
The best ad campaign was 1980 or 81...the teens with the intertubes rolling down the hill into the river. "GIve Me A Dew".
Reminds me of the old days of Deep Creek, Maryland.
it didn't show up around here till the mid to early 60's , its not what it was back then but still the best drink around !
I miss the "Ya-Hoo Mountain Dew" advertising from the 1960's.
I can still hear "YAAHOO MOUNTIAN DEW" from the commercials!
...Let me see, it was 1968, I was 5yo and we were camping near the Grand Canyon. The place had a pool and from the pool you could see a gas station across the street. We went there for sodas, you know the old glass bottles...which always tasted better! They had the vending machine that you opened the door to pull out your choice, I pulled out Mountain Dew and it was Nirvana!! The best soda ever on the hottest day!
Mountain Dew was better before it became "Mtn Dew"
Besides the original and Baja Blast my favorite is Red, White and Dew. It's only been available a couple of years around July 4th. I stock up whenever it's released
Ive drank so much I get a Thank You card every Christmas from the company.
When i was a kid in the 50s and 60s, i like the old fashioned Mt Dew in the bottle with the hillbilly best.
Back in the 70's , the soda actually had citrus pulp. We called them floaties.
Given the initial history of the drink, the “hard,” alcoholic version makes more sense
Whatever douche have to go to alcohol
Unbelievable
In the mid-Sixties, my family took a road trip from Washington State to Los Angeles at a time when my brothers and I were hooked on Mountain Dew. We must have driven our parents crazy shouting, “Wah-hoo, Mountain Dew!” All the way down the coast.
For me it was McDonalds in the 1970s. My parents couldn't avoid stopping there because their 2 year old son kept crying everytime they passed one. 40 some odd years later, that son AVOIDs that place like the plague.
its not wah - hoo , its yah- hoo !
@@jonesy4588 My brothers and I said wah-hoo. A regional dialect perhaps. 😸
There's nothing better than a ice cold Mt. Dew. 😎😎😎
Around 1967 "mountain dew" appeared in machines (cans) in my area. Nobody wanted to be the first to try it. I ended up getting a can of 'mountain dww' 10¢ along with 3 McDonald Cheeseburgers and fires (Only available in what is now the small) for less than a Dollar U.S. as Lunch. I stopped buying 'mountain dew' when the Orange flavour became too noticeable. I liked the 'red' but it disappeared from the Wal*Mart store shelves.
In the 60's when I drank my first Dew, I did so because of the cartoon on the bottle.
Growing up outside Detroit, in the middle 60s, I remember the little hillbilly guy yelling yaaah hooo, it's mountain dew ! on the TV commercials ...I used to buy it out of the skinny doored, glass pop bottle machines. .10 cents....
.2 cents on bottle return.
nice, thanks for sharing your memories
I, too, grew up in the Detroit area. North of Detroit near Woodward and 11 Mile. Graduated high school in '68. Remember the deposit bottles back then with "Filled by . . . " with two names? Like "Filled by Pat and Mary"? And poured in a clear glass was just about the right shade of yellow . . .
@@brianmcdaid3178 thanks for sharing your memories
" DO THE DEW " Best slogan for Mountain Dew's lemon-lime flavoured soft drink...!
thanks for watching
The formula was changed in.1974 and has orange in it as well
If you are thinking about having an alcoholic version have the real Mac Coy.
thanks for watching
The soft drink that keeps on giving.... for dentists.
We found it in PA. Then got all exicted when it was sold in central IN, we were from Chicago so it was not avail there for many years.
I still have some of the 70's bottles I collected as a kid. I have all the different "filled by:" bottles e.g. "Filled by Essie and Bill". The guy on the bottle was shooting at a guy in the distance running away by a moon door outhouse. I assume the guy running was messing around with the rifleman's daughter.
Love Mountain Dew!
As a,kid in the 60 didn't live but just a few miles from Johnson city use to pick up bottles out of the road ditches and exchange them for a bottle of mountain dew and candy lol
I have a dozen of those" tickle your innards" hillbilly bottles. Some have people's names printed on them. Pretty cool.
I remember first drinking mountain dew in the early 60s in Michigan.
I remember watching the Mountain Dew at the beginning of this video.
I am from and in WV. When I was younger I loved the TV commercial with the line "There's a SHOT in every bottle."
What's up with the "Kinemaster" logo taking up a quarter of the screen?
Sorry my friend, used to use Kinemaster up until recently.
I remember when the Dew finally came to Louisiana in the mid 60s. Even then it was hard to find until the 70s.
I tried it in the 70s as a kid and haven't drank it since.
I'm gonna try one next week.
probably tastes different than you remember it.
When the ten year exclusive with Taco Bell ended, the rite aid I worked at got a case of 20 oz Baha Blast. Was it incorporated into the cooler? No way! We kept it in the back for us to buy😂
I associate Mt. Dew with camping and swimming at the lake having a picnic.
For years, I've said "whomever invented Mountain Dew must be a God"! Obviously, these brothers weren't God's, but they must have been damned close!
They lost me as a consumer when they dropped Black Label Mountain Dew... everything else gave me heartburn.
One of my Favorite Snacks is Mountain Dew and Lays Sour Cream and Onion Potato Chips 😋
nice
Hey Pepsico, bring back Caffeine Free Mt. Dew!
BTW it's Kinston N.C. not Kingston.
You left Kinston with your guitar under your coat?
thank you for catching that.
I most miss the short-lived Dew-Shine from a few years ago.
Thanks Eric I appreciate you for mentioning my TH-cam channel
no problem my friend
I've got old Mt dew memorabilia so thanks for this information
I don’t remember it before the 70’s. Never much liked it. Can’t remember when I last had one.
I grew up in the 70s in Dew and RC and thats all the sodas I would drink.
nice! good times
I remember MD showing up in our upper-midwestern town around 1960. My neighbors were buying it.
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thank you
Good Video/Info.
I have a couple old bottles of Mountain Dew.