John Scalzi: So many of the variant Mountain Dew flavors just taste like melted Popsicles, and this is a feature not a bug

So many of the variant Mountain Dew flavors just taste like melted Popsicles, and this is a feature not a bug

Please tell me you’ve read this hilarious piece by @everywhereist.bsky.social

I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason.www.everywhereist.com Explaining why I embarked on a quest to consume as many different flavors of Mountain Dew as possible is not an easy task. Why am I voluntarily drinking a beverage whose ad campaigns seem to vaguely s...

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My son is a driver for Pepsi, so we get to taste all of the new flavors, sometimes before they are actually released. They are many and stupid. Who needed Gingerbread Mountain Dew? No one. Absolutely no one.

Holiday flavor, I imagine

Having tried it.... It brings new horrors to the holidays.

I still have horrific memories of when my country had tamarind soda.

It was like if ginger ale and mountain dew had a baby, so it was ok, kinda weird, not a horrible sin though.

Pumpkin Spice Mountain Dew is next

I skipped the gingerbread one, but the Fruit Quake Mtn Dew tasted very much like fruit cake, which is good to know depending on your liquid fruit cake preferences.

Yeah, but why? So gross! However, I am ashamed to admit I liked the Peeps flavored Pepsi, another holiday flavor.

Well definitely no one needed the fruitcake flavored one. But I'll try it once. And I was crushed that pitch black came back but not for long.

Nacho Cheese Pepsi!

Grotty!

My Other and I make it a challenge, to try each and every new one we see in the store. And some are actually really delicious! But that Gingerbread one was the foulest thing I have ever tasted.

I don’t think “need” and “Mtn Dew” belong in the same sentence.

Me. I needed Gingerbread Mountain Dew. I don’t drink regular Mt Dew, but I always try interesting looking new flavors of any product and it’s now on my “first things” list if I ever win billions of dollars: bribe PepsiCo into a yearly Gingerbread Mountain Dew run.

I'm glad someone likes it. I wish I could send you some. ;-)

Ask if they still have the crystal Pepsi

They don't. Thank goodness.

Crystal Pepsi messed with my head in so many ways.

I think I literally describe a flavor as tasting like melted Popsicles (and maybe broken dreams?)

And this is why I check replies before being "helpful." This was my first thought also.

I did check. No one had mentioned it. I’m glad John had read it – it’s wonderful.

I may have phrased that poorly, I meant to be thanking you for posting it before I had a chance to.

Thanks for clarifying – no harm done.

Strangely enough, I tried Baja Blast at Taco Bell and didn’t see the big deal, but later at a friend’s house I had a Baja Blast Zero Sugar, and it was great!

I am drinking one RIGHT NOW

Idk why but drinking Mountain Dew before 9am strikes me as way worse than drinking booze before 9am

I pregamed with a couple of Coke Zeros so it's okay

Oh goddammit

You get that that’s worse, right?

I live wild and free, man

I do the same

A man after my own heart.

This was my college routine - 20 oz Mountain Dew in the morning with peanut M&Ms from the school vending machine for breakfast, every morning. Then my senior year I graduated to Diet Dr Pepper. You know because that’s healthier.

My "breakfast" every morning before HS was a Mountain Dew and a package of Pop Tarts. It's amazing I don't have more health issues.

It's amazing you still have teeth 😂

Listen. My teeth are a PROBLEM for many reasons and this is one of them.

It's fruit flavored. Fruit flavors are approved for breakfast consumption. Skittles, too.

I’m usually drinking Mountain Dew before 6 am most days.

I can feel this on my teeth and in the phantom ulcer it would create.

Damn it now I wanna get Baja Blasted right in the mouth. Guess that's gonna be lunch...

Apparently Baja Blast mixes very well with vodka.

The BEST.

The zero is better tasting, which is a rarity!

The zero version has a stronger flavor even at Taco Bell, so if you like it stronger, stick to zero.

This gives me an idea : Otter Pops + caffeine

Red Bull Pedialyte and vodka pops send skeet

Think of the children! Or rather the parents that will have to peel them off the ceiling... 😂🤣

Have you seen the new episode of Beavis & Butthead where a guy drinks a giant glass of multiple flavors of Mountain Dew, all mixed together?

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