Mountain Dew.

[Charon]

Why can't I buy it here?! Why God, WHY!?

[Malibu Sally]

Why can't I buy it here?! Why God, WHY!?
Wouldn't selling it there violate some kind of maximum number of American products allowed in the UK ordinance or something? :cool:

[Sheba]

You really like that stuff?!

[Charon]

Absolutely love it.

But I could only drink it when in America. :(

[Malibu Sally]

Wow. Did some searching. Not only is mountain dew not available in England, but it is apparently banned in England. There are a ton of message boards out there with Brits bemoaning the great Moutain Dew famine that is going on over there.

[Charon]

It's banned? Really? Yeesh.

[Malibu Sally]

It's banned? Really? Yeesh.
I could not find any actual link to a law... just a lot of complaining. Google "mountain dew in England" and see for yourself.

[Charon]

Ahhh, I checked it out.

It was avalible in the late 90s, but since Pepsi didn't make the profits they wanted too, they pulled it.

Now if you want to order Mountain Dew, you have to have it shipped from the motherland for £15.95 for 24 cans.

Bah.

[Meltman]

Imported Mountain Dew..haha.

[Chain Lightning]

Absolutely love it.

But I could only drink it when in America. :(

Should you find yourself in North Carolina, you simply must have Sun Drop. In fact, most people I know in Virginia that 'Do the Dew' drink it because of Sun Drop.

[Meltman]

Oh, do you guys get Mellow Yellow over there, Charon?

[Malibu Sally]

Should you find yourself in North Carolina, you simply must have Sun Drop. In fact, most people I know in Virginia that 'Do the Dew' drink it because of Sun Drop.
If I ever find myself in the Carolinas or Virginia, I reach for a Cheerwine first. They stopped selling it in Florida. Bastiges.

[Kinetix]

Charon, I'll trade you a bucket of various Magnum icecream bars for a crate of Mountain Dew.

[Charon]

Charon, I'll trade you a bucket of various Magnum icecream bars for a crate of Mountain Dew.
This.... This is interesting...

[Meltman]

*imagines Charon enjoying some Dew while Kinetix recieves a big box liquid ice cream*

[AfterglowNoMore]

We could always start a black market Mountain Dew smuggling racket. We'll make hundreds!

[Solario]

BILLIONS!

(You can't hear it, but I'm making my best Spacey as Lex Luthor impression here.)

[The Widowed]

Charon, I'll trade you a bucket of various Magnum icecream bars for a crate of Mountain Dew.
I'd be happy with the Lust and Vanity bars from their Seven Deadly Sins line. But this does sound like a lucrative deal.... :think:

Now if we could just find some cheap yet reliable refrigeration units....

[Moon Jump]

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[AfterglowNoMore]

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That looks more like a can of deodorant than a can of soda.

[The Widowed]

I have to agree with the Glow. Soda cans do not and should not taper in at the top. Nothing's wrong with the traditional soda can design unless you have a really huge nose. :think:

[Charon]

How does it even open?

And due to a bet me and AG had, he now owes me a 12 pack of Mountain Dew.

So, problem solved. At least til I've gotten through 12 cans. ;)

[Bitter Babe]

We'll just send you some for your b-day or something

[AfterglowNoMore]

How does it even open?

And due to a bet me and AG had, he now owes me a 12 pack of Mountain Dew.

So, problem solved. At least til I've gotten through 12 cans. ;)
My name is Afterglow, and I'm a Gamblaholic.

[Meltman]

So, problem solved. At least til I've gotten through 12 cans. ;)

So you're good for one day then, alright.

[Moon Jump]

The NEW Jolt is supposed to be in the shape of a battery, for some reason they want to pawn it off as an energy drink rather then a high caffeine soda. I miss the old bottles rather then an oversized AA Battery. You twist the top and poof, it's opened and you can close it up to save the fizz, somthing that Jolt doesn't have alot of to begin with.

[Valcarde]

The NEW Jolt is supposed to be in the shape of a battery, for some reason they want to pawn it off as an energy drink rather then a high caffeine soda. I miss the old bottles rather then an oversized AA Battery. You twist the top and poof, it's opened and you can close it up to save the fizz, somthing that Jolt doesn't have alot of to begin with.

Also, if you're careful, you can pull off a nifty prank with the Jolt cans.

You see, they have this plastic protective wrap on the top that you have to remove. But, if you try to unscrew the cap without removing the plastic, the blowback from the pressure inside the can can pop the plastic off as well as the cap, leaving the plastic pristine if you're lucky (happens 1/3 times).

My roomate is a fiend for caffienated drinks. So... I buy a can of Jolt. Do the trick. Drink up. Refilled with water. TAP water. The tap water we get 'round my place is -nasty-. Put lid back on carefully and smooth down the plastic. Looks like a completly unopened bottle of Jolt.

Offered to go to the store to pick some up. Handed him the can of water when I got back.

To this day, he makes sure to destroy any Jolt can plastic wraps he finds.

[The Widowed]

Water? Pffft. I'm surprised you didn't spike it with powdered laxative from Walgreens or something.... :D

[Chain Lightning]

If I ever find myself in the Carolinas or Virginia, I reach for a Cheerwine first. They stopped selling it in Florida. Bastiges.

Ah yes, I remember Cheerwine also. That's not available here either. Some places along the Virginia-North Carolina border you can find Sun Drop and Cheerwine, but once you get past Petersburg and further North, forget it.

I'm going down on the 23rd to visit family. I'm bringing back some Sun Drop, Sally, I can hook you with some Cheerwine if you'd like.

[The Freudian Slip]

Just bought a 44 oz of Mountain Dew. I feel so terrible drinking soda now. All I drank at school was water and juice, and with soda I get headaches, my teeth feel gross...but goddamn it's like a mini-orgasm per sip and sure does wake me up.

One time(about 4 months ago) I bought a Mountain Dew at a train station. It was a special edition Star Wars Episode I can. I threw it away.

There used to be a commercial for Florida Orange Juice where some guy in rural Ireland or something was drinking some and he just had to know if it really tasted like Florida oranges. So it shows him traveling all the way to Florida, eating an orange, and going, "Wow! It really does taste like Florida oranges!"

I always thought a commercial with some x-treme snowboarding type guy going, "I just had to know if it tasted like real mountain dew!", climbing a mountain and licking some grass would be funny.

[Meltman]

I wish they still made Surge. If nothing but for the rediculously unintentionally funny commercials.

[thebluecanary]

Anyone remember Nitro Cola? It was bottled here in Washington, MO and made it to several other states. It had more caffeine then Jolt. The first ingredient on the bottle caffeine, then water. It looked like a pale beer. We actually got in trouble in high-school from the rent-a-cop. He thought we had beer at school. Took one of them, drank some, and then gave it back when he knew he was wrong.

I miss that stuff. Went like 2 days with no sleep.

[thebluecanary]

I wish they still made Surge. If nothing but for the rediculously unintentionally funny commercials.

OH! We found a can of that in my friends extra fridge when they needed to clean it out for his wedding. The went to empty it so they could have room for food and things. The can was like 8 years old or something. I know it was VERY expired. I drank it, it didn't taste all that bad. Granted after I got really really ill. But I think it was worth the $5. =P

[The Freudian Slip]

As much as Surge seemed designed exactly for my taste in soda, I never ever liked it.

[Akamaz]

wasn';t surge like caffenated sprite? (i liked squirt)

[Meltman]

wasn';t surge like caffenated sprite? (i liked squirt)

I forget.

And we all like drinking squirt.

[thebluecanary]

wasn';t surge like caffenated sprite? (i liked squirt)

I have no idea. All I know is I liked it. And drank WAY too much of it. It was cokes answer to MD.

[Meltman]

No, that was Mellow-Yellow.

[Valcarde]

Water? Pffft. I'm surprised you didn't spike it with powdered laxative from Walgreens or something.... :D

Because I like having my limbs attached to my torso, thank you very much :D