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[Flying Dice]

The question isn't whether you should drink the dew, it's what flavor of Doritos you get to go along with it.

[itisnotlogical]

I actually drank Mountain Dews and ate Doritos while playing League, while waiting for class to start. Anybody who was in on the joke thought it was hilarious. Probably the best joke I spent money on.

[Telgin]

This is the kind of thread that really makes me wonder just how much perception of flavor varies between people.  I find it pretty surprising that so many people actively dislike the flavor of Mountain Dew, because to me it tastes like slightly fruity sugar.  What I dislike much more about it, as mentioned earlier, is the state it leaves my mouth in afterward.  So much sugar means more plaque formation and such, which doesn't happen with diet drinks since microbes don't live on sucralose / aspartame.

Cue more discussion on how artificial sweeteners are the devil.   

The mention that sucralose tastes bad also surprises me, because to me it again tastes exactly like sugar.  Aspartame was very different where it had an aftertaste and could make things bitter if you put too much in something.

Maybe I've just become conditioned to it after so many years.

[itisnotlogical]

Any artificial sweetener leaves an aftertaste to me, although I wonder how much of that has been conditioned in to me as a result of a bad first experience. Diet soda always tastes weird to me, anyway.

[Tawa]

I don't really mind the taste of mountain dew (chemical and extremely sweet; it's soda, go figure), but what really bugs me is the syrupy texture it has. Maybe it's just me, but my mouth always feels like I've drank a bottle of pancake syrup after having some dew.

This is the one thing about it that bothers me, although to a lesser extent. Otherwise I love Mountain Dew, although I prefer the variants like Code Red and Voltage over standard lemon-lime.

[Eric Blank]

It's practically the only soda I drink anymore, and yeah I drink way, way too much of it too regularly.

On the flip side, it's my only source of caffeine and the only thing keeping me awake when I have to drive in to class at 5 in the morning, when I otherwise naturally just cease to be conscious.

Magistrum: if you're going to splurge to import soda from the other end of the continent (Which continent, by the way?), you should purchase several different brands/flavors and have them shipped in whatever manner (one crate or many) will be the cheapest. There are many soda options, and most of them a given individual won't find that appetizing.

However, cream soda is fucking delicious. Stings, but sooo good.

[nenjin]

Can't believe this thread went this long without:

At one time, Mountain Dew had the highest caffeine content of any any soda that was practical to buy in a lot of places. Jolt had more, but that was rarely available anywhere.

I remember my brother and I were forbidden from drinking either Mountain Dew or Mellow Yellow by our parents. When Jolt came out on the market, it was like smack for 13 year olds. (Dude, I picked up a pack of Jolt. I'm gonna drink it all right now!) Any other soda was ok, but not those.

I used to be a Pepsi guy until, I dunno, something about cola flavor just became unappealing. I switched to Dew and drank it pretty heavily for a few years until I started to get sick of it too (and started to get the Acid Reflux mentioned above. I'd have a Mountain Dew in the morning during class to perk up, and found it was especially bad then, because my stomach is always touchy for a few hours after waking up.)

Today I basically only drink it with a meal (I dunno, something about its sweetness cutting through the other flavors is like a palette cleanser for me. Yet I hate sweet "meal" foods. Go figure.) or the occasional one on the weekend. My soda consumption basically dropped by 75% when I started drinking (really strong) coffee as my drink of choice for doin' my own thing. I can't even conscious drinking a soda, any soda, in the morning now. I'd probably hurl.

Throwback

I don't really like the flavor of it, despite knowing that high fructose is something we should all be getting away from. That mouth-coating sweetness of high-fructose is part of the flavor of Dew to my brain. Kind of illuminated to me that drinking Dew isn't really about the flavor for me anymore, if it ever was. I think I originally switched to it from Cola because it was so mild in comparison. But orange isn't like a favorite flavor of mine, and after years of drinking Dew, if I'm honest, I'm starting to find the orange flavor a little sickening.

Maybe I've just become conditioned to it after so many years.

I think it's part conditioning, and part palette. People with a higher sensitivity to sweet flavors, as in they can detect mild sweetness in things most people would not, would probably find Dew completely overwhelming.

In the end I'm glad I switched to Coffee. I'm probably 20 pounds lighter than a lot of guys my age now because I quit so much soda period in my mid 20s, and Dew in particular.

This is why I'm glad I'm adverse to any sort of carbonated drink. For some reason, carbonated = bitter to the point of dry-heaving. Soda, beer- you name it, I can't drink it.

Bummer There's some part of almost everyone's palette that's basically exclusionary. Even not liking the actual flavor of beer that much, I can still drink it to appreciate the flavor without dry heaving.

[Tawa]

Can't believe this thread went this long without:
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No, it didn't.

[nenjin]

Can't believe this thread went this long without:
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No, it didn't.

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Flying Dice]

I honestly don't really understand how people can manage to drink soda at all. Apart from Mexican coke of course, that shit is great.

[BFEL]

shasta

Damn, for a brief moment I thought someone else remembered Josta

[Flying Dice]

Wait, I've got a question: is IrnBru considered to be a soda?

As opposed to a crime against humanity, I mean.

[KingofstarrySkies]

I honestly don't really understand how people can manage to drink soda at all. Apart from Mexican coke of course, that shit is great.

YOU'RE FUCKING RIGHT IT IS
and doctor pepper best drink fuck you nerds

[Gunner-Chan]

Wait, I've got a question: is IrnBru considered to be a soda?

It's freedom

[Yoink]

I've never noticed Mountain Dew giving me an unpleasant mouthfeel afterwards... for me it's only Coke/Pepsi that does that.
Coats your teeth and everything... eugh.