Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew is a citrus-flavored soft drink, made by the PepsiCo company. The drink has more caffeine (a stimulant) than other soft drinks like Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
History
"Mountain Dew" was first a slang word for moonshine or homemade whisky. The name for the soft drink was first trademarked by Ally and Barney Hartman in the 1940s. Early bottles were printed with the words: “Yahoo Mountain Dew…It’ll tickle your innards.” The bottles were green and had a cartoon drawing of a hillbilly moonshiner with a gun. This design lasted until the mid 1960s.[1]
Flavors
Mountain Dew has different flavors:
- Diet: a flavor which has no calories.
- Code Red: a cherry flavor.
- Voltage: a blue colored raspberry-citrus and ginseng flavor.
- Baja Blast: a tropical lime and pineapple flavored Mountain Dew, which can only be found at Taco Bell.
- White Out: a citrus (lemon, lime orange, and grapefruit) flavor with a smokey white color.
- LiveWire: an orange flavored Mountain Dew, also colored orange.
Mountain Dew Media
Mountain Dew Brand logo (owned by PepsiCo, Inc.)
Two sides of an early Mountain Dew bottle using the "Hillbilly" design. These returnable bottles could be found in stores and vending machines until the late 1980s.
The Mountain Dew logo used from 1969 to 1996 was also used on Mountain Dew Throwback when it was introduced in 2009 and was later used on special glass bottles of the drink.
2007 Dew Tour BMX in Salt Lake City, Utah
References
- ↑ "Name origins: Mountain Dew". Wordlab website. May 13, 2013. Archived from the original on October 11, 2014. Retrieved July 4, 2014.
Other websites
- Mountain Dew's Official website. Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine.