Posted on 01/03/2012 11:27:16 AM PST by SmithL
Mountain Dew will do more than just quench your thirst, according to an expert.
After a man claimed to have found a mouse inside of a Mountain Dew can, Pepsi cited an expert who testified that if a mouse got into a can that it would have been dissolved in the soda’s acid.
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Would ya’ please pass the jelly-like substance?
Which is worse, a dissolved mouse in the pop can, or a large ROACH floating in the oil bin in a theater, it happened. I saw it when working in the theater concession, went to tell the manager. He said, "Fish it out and go on".
Never ate popcorn in the theaters again, NEVER.
Yikes! No more mountain dew for me. If it will dissolve a mouse...
The chief of pediatric dentistry where I work complains about this all the time. According to him, the sugar/acid combo found only in Hillbilly Piss Mt Dew is excellent at eroding all enamel from your teeth.
Carbonated soda has a pH of about 2.5-3. I doubt very much that the mouse would be dissolved. It is however about as acidic as apple cider vinegar. (Ask your dentist!)
This is likely a hoax and lawyer bait, but I don’t much care for the BS response from Pepsico either.
But I happen to have some Mountain Dew and work in a mouse-infested building, so let’s play Mr. Science!
Deep-fried cockroach!
Dissolve a mouse in a can of soda? NO WAY. Not even Mt. Dew. Try it with a mouse sized piece of beef jerkey if you must, but NO WAY. Even with the soda boiling hot, you would still have....remains like bones, hair, fat. The so called expert should be ashamed.
Also worked in a theater once. Toilets backed up and the water went under the wall into the storage area, where it soaked up into the popcorn bags stored on the floor.
As in your case, manager proceeded to use the popcorn.
To be fair, hot oil will undoubtedly kill any bacteria, but still...
The acid in your stomach is much stronger than anything you can drink.
I had mouse in my house - my wife would only let me address the situation with non-lethal means. That mouse tortured me for weeks. A crown fell out of my mouth when I was eating chips, so I left it on the kitchen counter. That !@#$%^&* mouse stole my tooth. It took me about a week to find it and I had to tear up the kitchen to do it!
Heck, look what it did to Jimmy Hoffa.
Take a bone-in chicken wing and seal it in a container of Mountain Dew or Pepsi or even Coke. See how long, if at all, it takes to dissolve the flesh and bone.
This is crap.
He claimed it felt great.
I cook on a regular bases with my young grandchildren, a mouse in my soda would be inconsequential.
What’s in it, caffeine or sulfuric acid?
PLEASE take time lapse photos, if you do~!!!!
Remember the movie “Robocop”.
One of the bad guys gets partially dissolved by a green liquid near the end.
Now we know what that liquid was...
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