Mountain Dew king in Georgia convenience stores

[banned from Kos]

"Our market share data tells us that Georgians love Dew and they know there's nothing else out there like it," said Pepsi spokeswoman Gina Anderson. "We see the brand as having even more potential to grow in the region."

Coke declined to comment.

It's a significant development as both Coke and Pepsi try to find ways to grow their share of the carbonated sector, which has seen its volume numbers drop from their peak in the 1990s. Dew, which was created in Tennessee, has elbowed its way into the Georgia finish by being a strong regional drink, experts said.

http://www.ajc.com/business/mountain-dew-king-in-1466630.html

[KurtNYC]

1. Highest sugar and caffeine of the majors

About 20% more fructose than Coke

[pscot]

2. A marketing triumph, for sure.

[oldhippydude]

3. gotta give them their dews n/t

[banned from Kos]

4. Shold there be a warning label on Dew?

"Drinking this is unhealthy and might make you fat".

[wandy]

27. "Drinking this is unhealthy and might make you a red neck"?

[SmileyRose]

74. This Georgian laughed.

I'm from a long long line of low income farm people. Now amongst a family and community of folks people in New York and LA would quickly call red necks.

And even I thought that was zinger.

[Fawke Em]

12. I don't think it has sugar in it, anymore.

High Fructose Corn Syrup replaced cane.

[TheWraith]

89. High fructose corn syrup is still a sugar.

Sugars include all forms of fructose, sucrose, glucose, and galactose.

[cthulu2016]

5. Funny story... Pepsi did "throwback editions" of

their soda line, using sugar instead of HFCS and recreating the vintage can designs.

Unfortunately, the old Mountain Dew can had a cartoon hillbilly with a jug of moonshine which, to my eyes, made the "throwback" label sort of comical.

[hifiguy]

9. When I was a boy that was the logo on MD bottles.

I remember it well. Must've been about 1965-66 or so. The catchphrase was "It'll tickle your innards!"

[Art_from_Ark]

82. Around the same time, there was a commercial where the hillbilly said:

"Yahoo! Mountain Dew! It's good fer you!"

[Scout]

35. i prefer the throwback versions.

the real sugar tastes better, and there are fewer calories than the HFCS version.

plus, when i drink a real sugar drink, the craving is satisfied. the HFCS version just makes me want another pop.

[notadmblnd]

55. yeah, cause it leaves your moth sticky, right?

That's what it feels like to me.

[AndyTiedye]

60. They're Still Selling Mountain Dew Throwback Here

It's so much better with real sugar.

[Taverner]

64. LOVE LOVE LOVE the throwback!

[AndyTiedye]

69. Mountain Rum Punch

Lime juice
Mountain Dew Throwback
Rum
dash of bitters

[Enrique]

6. now with bath salts!

[Lionessa]

7. Never even sipped a MD. Looks like y'know what, so I just can't put it to my lips.

And from what I hear this is mostly a good thing for me, that stuff has a really bad rap from dentists and some docs as well, I hear.

[murielm99]

28. I've tried it.

I just don't get the attraction.

My son used to drink it all the time. When he had to lose weight, he gave it up. Ten pounds melted off with no effort. Now he drinks black coffee if he needs caffeine.

[JNelson6563]

8. The drink of choice for meth-heads and

opiate addicts, in my experience.

I don't know how they can drink that shit, much less give it to their babies in bottles.

Julie

[HappyMe]

10. Really?

Wtf? So, tell me, who drinks Pepsi or 7-Up?
I attended a small afternoon wedding reception that had no alcohol. None of the people there were opiate or meth addicts. The one toddler there had apple juice in their sippy cup.

[JNelson6563]

18. lolz

Well your event certainly negates all that I have seen with my own eyes! Thanks for weighing in!

Julie--who marvels at the tunnel-vision

[HappyMe]

23. Well, sorry.

I just don't happen to know any meth or opiate addicts.

I too, am marveling at the tunnel vision.

[cwydro]

40. I don't know any meth users either

but I do know Mountain Dew drinkers.

I don't drink soda, but I sure don't judge people who do. Good lord.

Love the generalization.

[Comrade Grumpy]

88. You might be surprised...

[cwydro]

90. Oh please.

I'm not a young woman, and I know a drug user when I see one.

[RT Atlanta]

15. Just saw your post after posting my note

Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention. Meth users love Mountain Dew.

[AndyTiedye]

68. Why Would Meth Heads Bother With Caffeine?

[Comrade Grumpy]

70. A long time ago, we would wash down our Desoxyn with coffee.

Desoxyn = prescription methamphetamine.

The common wisdom was that it made you get off faster, but that could have been speed jive.

We would get so wired we would give those little yellow 15 milligram tablets to waitresses as tips.

[coalition_unwilling]

48. If Coleridge had only had a Mountain Dew, he might have

finished "Kubla Khan"

[ananda]

11. Sounds like diabetes in a can.

nt

[RT Atlanta]

13. Plenty of Meth users in GA

Mountain Dew is apparently the preferred "drink" of choice for many meth users - and meth use is rampant in GA.

http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/27639/medical_conditions/meth_mouth___a_side_effect_of_methamphetamine_use.html

http://georgia.methproject.org/Meth-Info/index.php

[HiPointDem]

20. yeah, mountain dew is popular in the south because they have so many meth-heads. that's

the ticket.

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. I just assume anyone who perpetuates southern stereotypes

is a Repug troll and I ignore their comments, since Dems know better than to say shit like that.

[HiPointDem]

41. i'm not so sure.

[cordelia]

66. Yeah, check out the

'appropos' (sic) comment.

Ignorance in full display, spelling and South bashing.

[TroglodyteScholar]

59. I come from "Coke" country (Alabama, Georgia)

But I don't doubt what the Dew is doing to people's teeth. I've witnessed plenty of people suck down waaay too much of that stuff, and not all of them had the best oral hygiene habits.

It's a stereotype rooted in a terrible fact. Central Appalachia is No. 1 in the nation in toothlessness. According to dentists, one of the main culprits is Mountain Dew soda. With 50 percent more caffeine than Coke or Pepsi, Mountain Dew seems to be used as a kind of anti-depressant for children in the hills.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=6863173&page=1

[dixiegrrrrl]

72. you are citing facts, not baseless generalities, which I appreciate

[TroglodyteScholar]

75. Doesn't hurt that I'm a southerner either, does it...

[dixiegrrrrl]

76. Knowing the area does help understand it, true dat.

[HiPointDem]

79. doesn't make much difference, class prejudice & stereotypes exists everywhere.

[TroglodyteScholar]

93. You don't know me

Saying that my take on this is "class prejudice" is utterly laughable. You have to make a lot of assumptions to arrive at a conclusion like yours. My lineage is straight out of the delta and gulf coast, and I'm far from pedigreed.

Since you're so sure that people who think differently from you on this subject are prejudiced and engaging in stereotyping, maybe you'll tell me something. What do we bigots have to gain from it?

[HiPointDem]

80. hardly.

[HiPointDem]

78. article is bullshit.

"Grandma had dentures, mom had dentures, it's just inevitable that I'm going to end up with dentures, is the way some of these kids feel."

did grandma drink mountain dew too?

poor people are more likely to lose teeth than non-poor people. lots of reasons. mountain dew is irrelevant; starches that stick to the teeth (like white bread) more likely to cause tooth decay, & poor nutrition and lack of dental care the basic reasons.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Meh, give me a Mello Yello over Mountain Dew any day.

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I know, I know, woefully unhealty sugary HFCS infested yada yada yada....

But Mello Yello was a symbol of my childhood. They didn't have it in the Mid Atlantic, but they had it in the South, so whenever my family would drive down to Florida ever summer and drive through the South, the Mello Yello was a common place drink.

On the other hand Mountain Dew was ubiquitious, and I actually prefer the taste of Mello Yello anyways, health consequences be damned. (Although supposedly there is a Mello Yello Zero out there, but I've yet to see it in person.)

[RebelOne]

16. I live in Georgia and do not know any Mountain Dew drinkers.

The preference of most everyone I know is Coca-Cola.

[Bonhomme Richard]

17. I like it but the caffein really winds me up.

I can't drink it often.

[backscatter712]

19. So sue me, I'm a fan of the stuff.

Especially Mountain Dew Throwback, with real sugar.

Don't think that putting a warning label on it describing its sugar and caffeine content will deter me - that's why I drink it!

[Odin2005]

21. Probably from all the meth-addicts.

[Tom Ripley]

22. "It's not just for breakfast anymore!"

I forget who I stole that from

[Orsino]

24. I'm addicted to the diet variety.

It's my rocket fuel of choice. The real thing has gotten too icky-sweet for my aging taste buds.

[libinnyandia]

31. I alternate between diet MD and diet cherry Dr Pepper.

[LuvNewcastle]

83. I like Diet Mountain Dew too.

I think it's one of the best flavored diet sodas, along with Diet Sunkist..

[boston bean]

25. I gave up the empty calorie drink. This sept. I will have been soda free for a year. nt

[PoliticAverse]

32. Congrats. n/t

[Erose999]

26. Its all the meth heads. They love Mtn. Dew and Mayfield ice cream. I don't know if anyone has ever

tried marketing a Mtn. Dew and Mayfield float... but I bet it'd do well.

My best friend from high school's dad ran a convenience store. Little town on the outskirts of the county, populations about 400. The kind of country store where you could open up a charge account (which was one reason he was able to hold out when the corporate dollar stores came to town).

Anyway, all the "Deliverance" looking people would come down from the hills and buy their groceries there. Natty Ice beer, Little Debbie cakes, potted meat, wonder bread, ice cream, and Mountain Dew. I don't see how those people lived on that junk, but they did lol.

[HiPointDem]

30. ah, yes. the 'deliverance' people who eat little debbies. how humorous.

[Erose999]

33. Deliverance was filmed in North GA. While it may be an unflattering description, it is appropos.

[HiPointDem]

37. ah yes, so appropos, so humorous.

[Tsiyu]

49. It's fun to make fun of Appalachians

When you've never been to Appalachia.

While there are a lot of ignorant tools in North Georgia, most of them live in Cobb or Gwinnett or Forsyth tract houses (or hang out in Atlanta at the capitol ) and drive shiny SUVs.

But don't tell anyone.

[RebelOne]

54. I live in North Georgia and it is not apropos of the people I know here. n/t

[cherokeeprogressive]

52. Filmed in No. GA... except for the parts that weren't.

Nice try though.

[cordelia]

62. Wrong.

Learn to spell.

[dixiegrrrrl]

42. Who drank all the Mt. Dew before meth was invented???????

I remember Mt Dew being popular here for decades. It actually goes back to the '40's.
So before it became a "meth head" drink, who bought it?

Let's not even talk about how long Wonder Bread has been around, shall we?

[Tsiyu]

29. What is WRONG with you people!?!?!?!

SunDrop is the only real deal, see.

They're just pissed because now you can buy SunDrop in Georgia and it is a far superior product to kill your liver with than Dew or Mello.

It's Tennessee Thing


( and I love frozen SunDrops when it's 100+ so sue me )

[Erose999]

34. Is "upper 10" still around? I remember seeing a lot of that in TN and AL. And theres RC, which is

also pretty big, but pretty tame in stimulant content compared to the Dew.

[Tsiyu]

50. Haven't seen that

But when I lived in Jacksonville I learned to put peanuts in my RC.

[Go Vols]

43. Sundrop ftw

[Tsiyu]

47. The Golden Cola!

Yum

[Son of Gob]

57. You people?

[Tsiyu]

67. Cool drink

messed up hand

[Ganja Ninja]

36. But it just doesn't go as well with Moon Pies as a Pepsi.

[gkhouston]

39. tsk, tsk. The proper accompaniment for a Moon Pie is an RC co-cola. n/t

[11 Bravo]

45. Finally! Somebody gets it right! An R-uh C and a Moon Pie was the only way to go.

[cherokeeprogressive]

53. But the Moon Pie doesn't go as well with RC as a Reeses... n/t

[DainBramaged]

44. 'Cause Jr. does the Dew, that's why

These folks don't know nuthin.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

46. Wasn't Simba the Coca Cola Co.'s answer to PepsiCo's Mountain Dew?

For some reason Simba didn't catch on, but I think it came out in response to Mountain Dew and that it had a similar taste. Could it be that southerners like Mountain Dew because of the hillbilly-sounding name and the way it's marketed, with hillbillies saying "Yahoo, Mountain Dew" and playing bluegrass music? Simba was always advertised showing images of grasslands in Africa and prides of lions. "Simba, it goes for your throat" was the marketing line. "Simba" I believe is the Swahili word for "lion".

[littlewolf]

51. want cold caffeine just drink JOLT .... :D nt

[Son of Gob]

56. Hey Vern

[XanaDUer]

58. God I hate the smell taste and color of that crap

Nt

[longship]

61. Wimps! Bring back Jolt Cola.

MD is for sissies.

[Taverner]

63. I love Mountain Dew - but only the Sugar stuff

HFCS makes me sick just to smell it

[struggle4progress]

65. Flatt and Scruggs - Mountain Dew

[otohara]

71. It's Marketed Towards AA's and Latino's

Rappers are advertising this diabetic inducing garbage, fucking sellouts!

https://www.google.com/search?q=mountain+dew+marketed+to+african+americans&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=VrS&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&prmd=imvnsb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ht_8T8-0NYym8QS10ozlBg&ved=0CDYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=754#hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=mountain+dew+rappers&oq=mountain+dew+rappers&gs_l=img.3...25490.26484.0.28231.7.5.0.0.0.0.1470.4911.2-1j1j7-3.5.0...0.0.Yb_nllZ9nhE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=cbb24c71b8223111&biw=1600&bih=754

[cherokeeprogressive]

73. Ah yes... It HAS been a couple of days since the last south bashing thread, hasn't it?

And for all the bigoted people that attach meth to Georgians who drink Mountain Dew I would say this:

I'd bet my bottom dollar that every Georgian Mountain Dew drinker who votes, votes a straight Dem ticket.

Good goin' there, DU. This shit is so fucking old...

[cwydro]

81. i know

any excuse for a South bashing thread.

Mountain Dew? Really? This is all they got lol.

[JNelson6563]

85. I paired Mountain Dew with meth

in this thread but know full well it is the drink of meth-heads across the country. And not just meth heads but it seems the opiate addicts love the stuff too.

Opiates seem to be more widespread where I'm at and damn those junkies love that shit here in northern MI.

I would have made the same remarks in this thread no matter what region the report from the OP came out of.

Just throwing that out there.

Julie

[cherokeeprogressive]

94. I'm going to go on record and state my belief, mostly from personal experience...

that the refreshments of choice for tweakers are Red Bull, Rockstar, and Monster.

I don't know any tweakers who drink Mountain Dew. I know a whole hell of a lot who drink Red Bull, Rockstar, and Monster though.

[eppur_se_muova]

77. Mmmm ... brominated vegetable oil ...

After a few extreme soda binges—not too far from what many gamers regularly consume—a few patients have needed medical attention for skin lesions, memory loss and nerve disorders, all symptoms of overexposure to bromine. Other studies suggest that BVO could be building up in human tissues, just like other brominated compounds such as flame retardants. In mouse studies, big doses caused reproductive and behavioral problems.

***

"It is a North American problem," Vetter added. "In the E.U., BVO will never be permitted."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=soda-chemical-cloudy-health-history

[dixiegrrrrl]

86. "found in 10 percent of sodas in the United States."

"The next time you grab a Mountain Dew, Squirt, Fanta Orange, Sunkist Pineapple, Gatorade Thirst Quencher Orange, Powerade Strawberry Lemonade or Fresca Original Citrus, take a look at the drink's ingredients. In Mountain Dew, brominated vegetable oil is listed next-to-last, between disodium EDTA and Yellow 5. These are just a sampling of drinks with BVO listed in their ingredients, which is required by the FDA.
The most popular sodas – Coca-Cola and Pepsi – do not contain BVO."

article goes on to say it is "used in some citrus-based beverages," said Christopher Gindlesperger of the American Beverage Association, which represents PepsiCo, maker of Mountain Dew

[eppur_se_muova]

91. If it's cloudy, look for BVO.

BVO functions as an emulsifier, forming cloudy emulsions or suspensions of oil in water. The cloudiness makes it look more like natural fruit juice, even if there's nothing natural in it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

92. damn..there goes my lemon lime Gatorade.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

95. Sounds like it might go well with pink slime - mmmmm

[phylny]

84. My physician's assistant said that in her experience,

there are many poor people who drink Mountain Dew because their situations make them depressed, or they are clinically depressed, and can't afford anti-depressants. The jolt of HFCS and caffeine are a temporary reprieve.

Mountain Dew mouth is all too real. One of the 2.5 year olds I see has had his four top front teeth removed and some of his molars capped because they were rotted to the gums. Mountain Dew in a bottle.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

87. Yeeeeeeeee

Haaaaaaaaaw!