Ours is a troubled time, what with the economic collapse, needless wars, and a serous lack of Warner Bros’ studio stores. Here we are in another stupid decade and nothing has changed. Oh sure, our internet is fast now, and cell phones are pretty cool, but the cold hand of nostalgia strangles the life out of me more and more each day. Oh, how I harken back to the halcyon days of yore in our country where a man, or prolly a woman (being as that men didn’t shop for groceries), could go into a store and buy a soft drink adorned with cartoon hillbillies.
Pepsi Co. heard the cry for a simpler time and answered with ‘throwback’ Mountain Dew. As you no doubt already noticed, the can looks pretty much the way it did back in the, well, whatever decade it was invented in. It sure is breathtaking. Sure, I could have gone without the nagging reminder right there on the can: this beverage is for a limited time. But, beggars can’t be choosers.
The packaging isn’t the only thing that’s different about this ‘throwback’, soda, heavens no. Pepsi turned back the clock and used actual REAL SUGAR in this soft drink. Huh, I wasn’t aware they weren’t using real sugar now, but, it’s still a nice sentiment on their part. The taste? Pretty good. I can appreciate a good yellow soda, and this is one. Honestly, it could taste like cough syrup and circus peanuts, just so there is a hillbilly on the can. The south will rise again, dudes!
From what I understand, this liquid gold is fairly hard to come by. So if you see them in your local grocery store in your jerkwater town, you better stockpile them and buy all that you can, ‘cos they are going faster than the decay of our once proud culture. Once Armageddon hits (any day now), the one with the most ‘throwback’ Mountain Dew will rule the tattered country. Those of us left will have to flee to the mountains and live like hillbillies, and I, for one, cannot wait.
Love the retro style. Go Hillbillies!!
Also, real sugar is the way to go. Most drinks use the high-fructose corn syrup nowadays.
This is the best thing I've read all year.
Thanks gents!
I'd have to taste throwback mountain dew along with the extreme mountain dew to see if I can taste the difference. I suspect that I wouldn't.
And to think my mom threw out all my hillbilly era Mountain Dew t-shirts. Dang.
I think you and Duane were separated at birth.
Hey, we discovered this stuff some time last year when the cans were green and looked different than the current white can incarnation. I don’t care what the packaging looks like, but is there a difference? Oh yeah! My son hates the stuff but will drink it if the regular MD is gone. My wife drastically prefers the Throwback version. I’ve tried it and it definitely tastes the way it did back in the 60′s when it was a relatively new drink.
My wife has found that when she is drinking the throwback version, she is satisfied with less pop, at mealtime and she eats far less (about half).
Apparently there is something about High Fructose Corn Syrup that causes you to get hungrier and especially for more soda.
Check out the book by Richard Johnson, ‘The Sugar Fix,’ a very impressive book.