In , the logo was updated to the current "Mtn Dew" styling. The Mountain Dew in Talladega, Ala. Bernard Troncale. We all love living in The South, right? But just because you love something doesn't make it perfect. Let's face it. There are a lot of great things about living in the South, but there's also a lot of not-so-great things about living in the South, apparently. That's what we determined after asking our readers on the It's a Southern Thing Facebook page to tell us what Southern experiences they think are overrated.
We got more than 13, replies, and all we have to say is don't shoot the messenger, y'all. Also, if you see something you love about life in the South on this list, don't take it personally.
Different strokes for different folks, you know? However, we are all grateful that the alligators, water snakes and out-of-control swarms of mosquitoes and gnats mostly stay in those areas. It has lost most all of its authenticity. It's a staple, but it took me years to like it and even now I sip it like a dessert.
I have lived here for more than half my life. It's just overrated. It's deafening. I've heard them over diesel engines and ambulance sirens. The things are absolutely overrated and absolutely do not work for the ambiance non-southern writers attempt. You can't rake them. You can't blow them away, and they never rot. Then there are those cones that fall off everywhere when the flower dies. Not worth the mess. It's hairy and slimy and no amount of cornmeal coating can make me forget that.
And coleslaw is not a sandwich topping. Give me a tomato-based sauce any day. I know I'm not the only one that feels that way.
The Tip Corporation, which is a strange name for a beverage company, bought the struggling soda company in the hopes of bubbling up some business. All the Hartmans wanted out of the deal was to buy the owner dinner. Meanwhile, the Tip Corporation got to work on the Mountain Dew formula. They decided to add a little lemonade to the original recipe, but kept everything else Barney and Ally created. Whatever they did to the recipe worked because in , PepsiCo came knocking at their door, looking to buy the rights to Mountain Dew.
They also scrapped the country bumpkin branding and surprise, surprise: Mountain Dew was soon a hit. Fast forward to the end of the 90s, when Mountain Dew wanted to switch things up yet again. The drink was marketed as the official beverage of extreme sports, which tracked. They also decided to ditch the vowels in the name because extreme, duh.
In , new flavors of Mountain Dew started hitting shelves. The formula was sold to a company in Marion, Virginia.
Source: frederickshome. The company owner, Bill Jones, felt that the beverage had potential but that the formula needed to be tweaked to make it more palatable. He developed several different variations of the soft drink formula and conducted taste tests all around Marion. He set up his table outside high schools, factories, and stores, and asked passers-by to sample the beverage. Using the feedback from townsfolks, Jones settled on a formula for Mountain Dew that was vastly different than the product the Hartman Brothers sold him.
Mountain Dew made Bill Jones a wealthy man. Source: appalachianhistory. Trained distillers know to remove the so-called foreshots of methanol during regular distillation, however the danger becomes real when bootleg distillers or "unscrupulous moonshiners" use cheap wood alcohol rather than going through the lengthy process of distilling for ethanol, to boost their drink's kick, writes Clay Dillow for Popular Science.
This shortcut can prove deadly: M ethanol introduced into drinks by illegal brewers led to 20 deaths in in the Czech Republic and as well as more than deaths in India in For much safer consumption, try mixing Mountain Dew with properly distilled whiskey.
The original formulation has changed, however so the drink may not be the same as that quaffed by the Hartman brothers.
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