Posted on 02/10/2016 5:48:01 AM PST by wintertime
Have other Freepers noticed a change in the taste of diet Mountain Dew? Yesterday, I bought some at my local 7-11 and noticed the change. It was so bad that I poured it out on the grass. I went to another 7-11 and bought a new diet Mountain Dew. This one was OK. This morning I opened a bottle that I bought at our local supermarket and again that same terrible bubblegum taste! Yuck!
So?...Does anyone have news on whether or not the formula has changed? If it has, then I am done with Mountain Dew. It is now too sweet and has lost its tangy zing.
I did a Google search but didn't find much.
Classic opiate withdrawal symptom too...
You haven’t mixed it with enough “shine”.
That was before social media was even an idea. Start a social media campaign. If you don't do social media, perhaps you know someone who does. I'm sure their are plenty of others who imbibe on Mountain Dew who feel the same way.
OK maybe, but bubblegum flavor?
That’s what I tell my kids, it is liquid candy that harms your body. My husband still buys it for them on occasion.
What’s the worst thing an insider knows about soda?
I quit drinking flavored sodas with added chemicals & replaced those with seltzer, or what the Jewish folks call “two cents plain”.
Carbonation & nothing else. Even club soda has some additives. Plain chilled seltzer does it for me especially on a hot day.
And it mixes well with whiskey, too.
;^)
Aging will do that for some people, as will head trauma and other brain related issues, even an incomplete diet.
As others have said, it might be an indication of something more serious and worth paying attention to.
Honestly? The only things of value in a diet drink are the water and maybe the caffeine.
But as to the rest of that can full of chemistry? None for me, thanks. I quit! Almost anything is better than diet soda.
Coffee, for example, is much better for you. Mmmmm...fresh brewed, hot and delicious. Yum!
Plus, if you mix in some ground cocoa for even more antioxidants, and add some honey to taste if you like it sweeter, and you're doing your mind and body a favor.
Or go with tea if you don't like coffee, or just plain water...almost anything is better than diet soda.
No.
Everything else is fine.
Check the expiration date. Diet soda has a 90 day shelf life.
I changed my brand of vermouth and my martinis don’t taste the same.
I make it a rule to only drink adult beverages.
Might just be a bad batch. Try one from a different store or better, out of a machine, since those usually can’t be tampered with.
popular in Texas.
Over the years I’ve come to be somewhat of a Mt. Dew connoisseur... although I finally kicked the habit and don’t drink it anymore, I put away about 30 cans a week for many years. I noticed a difference in taste from one bottler to the next. Sometimes really subtle, sometimes not. When I switched to diet Mt Dew, I noted the taste differences were much more prominent than with regular. So it’s probably not your taste buds, you might try looking at where it was bottled and go get a case at a different store that may be a different bottler. I’m not sure how the distribution works so....
That brings back memories..."High time for Hires Root Beer...Open a bottle..."
My alltime favorite is still Franks's or Pennsylvania Dutch Real Draft Birch Beer. Back in the day, you could actually by a quarter keg of it. Usually for picnics where the adults were drinking beer and the kids birch beer...until the adults got too sloshed to know which draft the kids were tapping.
Or at least so I heard.
I haven’t had soda for a week and haven’t had Mt. Dew since last year. Dentist says not to drink so much of that stuff, so I’ll take your word for it.
Playing my regular Friday golf game with my high school buddies on a very hot summer afternoon, there was no drink cart or water fountains to hydrate with on the desert course we were playing.
After the round, I bought two big bottles of Mountain Dew at a convenience store to drink on the drive home. I consumed both of them because I was thirsty as all get out. Within an hour of returning home, I felt light-headed and had a tingling sensation all over my body. I couldn't figure out what it was and enlisted my wife to help. She was a nurse practitioner.
My heart was racing at about 140 beats a minute when my normal resting pulse was 70. She took me to the ER and I had an EKG. I was in full-blown Atrial Fibrillation.
They cardio-converted me (the classic paddles to jolt your heart back into normal sinus rhythm). It worked for a short while but I flipped back into it again.
I was given Warfarin to thin my blood to avoid clotting. In the history and physical interview, I told the doc about drinking the Mountain Dew. She said it has a very high caffeine content and probably sent my heart into overdrive.
I have been cardio-converted over a dozen times over the years trying to get rid of the rapid and irregular heartbeat, including what they call an ablation technique and a maze procedure during my open heart surgery a few years ago. Nothing has ever worked to correct the problem permanently and I still take Warfarin daily to keep a clot from forming in my atrial chamber and causing a risk for stroke.
All of this because I downed those two Mountain Dews year before. I haven't touched it or other sodas since. Bad stuff.
Sugar, lots of sugar or corn syrup. Chemical sweeteners, bottling plants you wouldn’t garage your car in and flavoring agents that read like a cheat sheet for a chem II quiz. BTW, the exterior (including the top) of a can or a bottle is filthy, rat filthy, bug filthy, poop filthy.
I drink water, black coffee and nothing else.
That’s the equivalent of drinking 16 cups of coffee. Plus the 250 + grams of sugar. No wonder it made you sick.
Well yea, diabetics are very sweet. And it is not like the color is any different.
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