Posted on 09/19/2011 9:52:06 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
When my wife and I were shopping for groceries Saturday we picked up 2 cases of "ThrowBack" sodas(Mountain Dew, Pepsi).
Yes, I have tried the throwback Mountain Dew, and it brings back so many childhood memories. The taste is exactly the way I remember it was.
I was raised on Mountain Dew since I was 5 or 6 years old. My maternal grandfather owned an operated an Esso gas station in our hometown and during the summers when I would stay with them I would go with him to the station and “help” him run it (this was around 1967/68 or so when I was 5 or 6).
He had one of those old soda pop machines, the ones with the vertical door on the left front side of the machine where you had to open the door and pull the bottle out after to you put your money in. The drinks were always ice cold.
As I remember, the old Mountain Dew bottles were green with white lettering and had a depiction of hillbilly moonshiner on the front aiming his flintlock and another one of him on the back holding a jug. The cork was flying out of the jug and through the bill of his hat.
Ah, the good old days.
Our Coke distributor carries this as well all the way up here in Kansas. Its all thats in my fridge.
HFCS SUCKS!!!
Sugar Coke is better. I suppose it’s even possible sugar Pepsi is better, but not better enough. Pepsi’s always had this battery acid after taste for me, don’t like it.
Only if the Edsel were still in production...
Throwback means that the use cane sugar rather high fructose corn syrup.
They’re a major improvement over the current beverages and the label on the Throwback Mountain Dew (Yahoo! Mountain Dew!) is happy memory, too!
I could say I noticed a difference, but not that one was better than another.
I liked it better when it cost a nickel, and ya had to flip open and hold up the reefer cover and reach in with yer other hand and grab a bottle at the gas station—everything rolled downhill after those days...
The only thing it did accomplish was to make a little known herb that only grew in Columbia extinct, that herb was one of the secret ingredient in Coke ( no, not cocaine, that's not extinct).
God in heaven I hate agent orange & hfcs!
Mexican Coke is also available at Costco! Twice as expensive, so we limit ourselves to one per day, but it tastes like Coke used to taste, and we LOVE it.
Visited Mexico City a couple of years ago, and commented on the glass bottles and the taste. The “natives” there told me Coke sales went in the basement when they tried to use corn syrup down there. Couldn’t get corn syrup Coke there at all. They wouldn’t drink it!
We buy the throwback Mountain Dew as well.
Nothing against corn syrup, nothing wrong with it, as we still drink it, but just prefer real cane sugar.
Not just price, but also availability. Plus, the liberals are yammering that using corn for fuel is raising the price of corn which is starving people in the 3rd world. No pop company wants to get labelled as someone starving people.
“God in heaven I hate...hfcs!”
Maybe not you, but I think to a lot of people it’s a victory of propaganda, ideology, nostalgia, hyper-rationalism, etc. HFC tastes fine to me. Don’t misunderstand, I’d rather eat (relatively) fresh and natural things (whatever that means, really). Processed foods with artificial ingredients indeed taste processed and artificial. But it’s not that bad, and sometimes not different enough to be any better or worse than the (relatively) natural alternative.
Modern day Coke tastes fine, especially for people not brought up on the old stuff. Twinkies are tastey and fake “maple” syrup is a-okay. People tend to overthink these things.
I still buy TAB (when I can find it) and I still love it.
OMG, help me get these wrinkles out of my forehead, I’m overthinking again!
The old Mtn Dew was HQ’ed in Texas. I have the same memories you do. The old Mtn. Dew also had orange juice in it. You could see the pulp. It had less sugar and not jacked up with caffine.
The current Mtn. Dew is rot gut. I have not tried the throw back but I may buy some. The old original had OJ in it, less real sugar and was not loaded with caffine. I doubt the throw back is exactly the same.
Pepsico is a real pro-Obama outfit. Coke’s largest shareholder is Buffett.
“OMG, help me get these wrinkles out of my forehead, I’m overthinking again!”
I said, “Maybe not you...” Other people certainly do, given the endless websites, studies, MSM stories, and general conversation, most of it pointless (given that it could accurately be summed up as, “corn syrup = yuckie”), about HFCS.
I’m glad more people are recognizing the difference. I remember back when the companies were transitioning from real sugar to high-fructose, and finding the results less satisfying. At the time, I thought it was just the difference between sodas in glass bottles versus cans (which were starting to replace them). I believed it was that which accounted for the change in taste.
In recent years, though, I’ve finally realized it had to do with the sugar. Particularly amazing to drink the “7-Up” with sugar, which brought back memories of why I used to like it as a kid. When it went fructose was around the time I lost all interest in it, and rarely drank it.
I don’t drink Pepsi - ever. They’re blind support of this President and his policies, plus the company support of the homosexual agenda is enough that I don’t want to contribute to their coffers.
However, Dr. Pepper from Dublin is fantastic! At least, it was until corporate started suing them. :-(
On the rare occasion I drink a coke, it’s a zero calorie, or a sugar Dr. Pepper. Otherwise, it’s water, lemonade, whole milk, tea, or beer (and I’m trying to cut down on the beer).
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