- Remove beverage
- Add battery acid
Two steps, fair enough
Mmmm tasty
Submitted 3 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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fargeol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I can do it in one:
- Classify beverage as battery acid
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Pepsi once won a court case against a man eho claimed a mouse was packaged into a bottle and sold to him, but Pepsi’s defence was that “a mouse present during bottling would have mostly dissolved by now.”
ninja@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That was actually mountain dew (though mountain dew is owned by pepsi)
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Yeah I meant Pepsi as in the Company. I’ll edit it to say “Pepsi Co”
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Jesus christ 😳😳😳
666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Do native english speakers really see it that way? Because as someone with english as a second language, I don’t connect the name to Mountains, Dew or water or nature in any way. When I see that soda’s name, I read it in my mind with a sort of edgy gamery ad voice
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks ago
DO THE DEW!!! ™️
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yes, it is in our history. Here is a song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff7KFVJcnUg
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I’ve not had the american mountain dew, but I heard it’s pretty different from the european one :3 the one here just tastes like citrusy soda… a bit like orange and lemon mix, if I had to place it I guess
Funny thing is we have a local soda here with the name that would translate as “dew” :3. I do prefer that one; especially the lime & cactus flavour
Carnelian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Never tried the European one but the one here tastes like a manufacturing precursor to battery acid
aldhissla@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
As a fellow enjoyer of battery acid manufacturing precursors, I agree, it’s one of the better ones.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks ago
Lime & cactus sounds tasty. I love how sodas in other countries are more subdued yet still tasty, and the US is like “here’s 20 variations of antifreeze.”
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Honestly it’s even interesting for me to think of the sodas here as more subdued cause to me they’re all quite sweet and strong tasting lol :3 I have heard that from people who have sampled both though.
Also on the note of antifreeze… it made me think of american fanta, which is an orange see-through liquid, and apparently doesn’t even really taste of oranges (?), meanwhile here in europe it’s a more opaque orangy yellow and is made with orange juice :3. I think it’s probably the easiest to see difference between all the sodas we have in both countries
BewareOfIdiot@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
What drink are you referring to in second paragraph?
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Absinthe used to be called ‘the green fairy’ because it was supposed to take you to Neverland.
‘Green Fairy’ would be a great name for a soda, imho
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Absinthe makes the mind go wander.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
You offend me with your rank amateurism
Yakuza_Wolf_ReRise@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
If basic Mountain Dew is an Acid Battery, then the Frost Bite flavor is a jump starter
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Give me the crab juice!
sexy_peach@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Mountain Dew tastes way too much like the liquid from a pickle jar. Like it’s not enjoyable for me at all
xylol@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
The liquid from a pickle jar is delicious, dont ever compare it to nasty soda
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The name is a reference to bootlegging alcohol. And their original packaging literally had a dude with a moonshine jug on it, same with the modern Throwback label.
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Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s original slogan was It tickles yer innards.
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
“It’ll tickle your innards!”
gastroglizzy@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Kinda, sorta. “Mountain dew” is a euphemism for moonshine in the southern US.
The definition of “bootlegging” varies by who you ask. Some say it’s any kind of unregulated activity related to alcohol, which can include brewing; some insist it only refers to the smuggling or transport of the finished product.
So, depending on which definition of “bootlegging” you subscribe to, it may refer to that. But “mountain dew” means “moonshine” because most people who make it live in the Appalachian mountains
derfunkatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The definition of bootlegging is so broad that I think you can even legally be charged with bootlegging if you source your alcohol products for sale from anywhere other than a distributor, e.g. buying in bulk from Costco or a discount liquor place to stock the bar.
In general, I think it typically means illegal transport and sale, since not too many people have historically trusted moonshiners or developed a taste for moonshine. There was that weird moment in the mid-2010s where reality TV caused a huge interest in moonshine, but that was just distillers realizing that they could capitalize on a trend by making unaged 80-proof corn liquor, throwing some cinnamon sticks and apple slices in a Mason jar, and calling it “moonshine.”
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The barefoot hillbillie with a beard and a jug was a standard trope in cartoons.
Bugs Bunny ran into them all the time.
https://youtu.be/vtkflEaeGjo
charokol@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Also, I believe it was originally marketed as a mixer
Krelis_@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It was originally a term for Poitín back in 1600s – 1700s Ireland when the British outlawed private distilleries. There’s a song about it written in 1882. From there it probably got picked up as a term for moonshine