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10-10-2018, 04:38 PM | #1486 |
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10-10-2018, 04:40 PM | #1487 |
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Vanilla Coke + Vanilla Crown Royal = Winning
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10-10-2018, 04:40 PM | #1488 |
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10-10-2018, 04:40 PM | #1489 |
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Vanilla Coke has never been my thing but I still love Cherry Coke!
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10-10-2018, 04:41 PM | #1490 |
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Voltage! That's the one!
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10-10-2018, 04:42 PM | #1491 |
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Hey guys, if you had to choose just one, what do you do?
Choke your wife in private. Make out with your son on a national stage creepily. Shoot a bunch of acquaintances and then hang yourself in prison. Sent from my LM-Q710(FGN) using Tapatalk |
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10-10-2018, 04:42 PM | #1492 |
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Super Nova was the best all-time Mtn Dew flavor - it has been defeated by Voltage and Voltage is still available.
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10-10-2018, 04:43 PM | #1493 |
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STOP - this is NOW a food and soda thread.
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10-10-2018, 04:43 PM | #1494 |
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10-10-2018, 04:44 PM | #1495 |
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10-10-2018, 04:44 PM | #1496 |
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Do you guys realize - Mtn. Dew was originally designed to be a bourbon mixer?
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10-10-2018, 04:45 PM | #1498 |
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Energizing Facts About Mountain Dew
BY ALVIN WARD APRIL 11, 2016 istock ISTOCK No matter how many cases of the bright green soda you’ve gulped, you would probably still be surprised to learn about its mountain heritage, early career as a bourbon mixer, and audacious marketing plans. 1. THE GREAT DEPRESSION MADE IT POSSIBLE. If everything had gone according to plan, Ally and Barney Hartman would never have become linked to everyone’s favorite fluorescent soda. They originally wanted to be orange soda moguls. In 1926, the brothers were part of a group that began bottling Orange Crush in Augusta, Ga. While Orange Crush was a hugely successful soda in those days, the Great Depression hit the Augusta plant particularly hard, leading the business into bankruptcy in 1932. The Hartman brothers then moved to Knoxville, Tenn. to join an Orange Crush franchise there. 2. IT WAS ORIGINALLY A MIXER FOR BOURBON. Thomas Hawk, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0 While market conditions were rosier in eastern Tennessee, the Hartman brothers had a serious problem with their new home. During their stay in Georgia, they had become fond of a lemon-lime soda called Natural Set-Up, which was the perfect companion for their other favorite beverage, Old Taylor bourbon. Luckily for the Hartmans, they had a bottling plant at their disposal. According to Dick Bridgforth’s Mountain Dew: The History, the brothers began bottling small runs of a lemon-lime soda for their own use. At first they called it “Personal SetUp,” but it was later dubbed “Mountain Dew,” a joking reference to moonshine. Rather than a commercial drink, the Mountain Dew was a novelty that the Hartmans used to mix drinks for themselves and guests. 3. THE INITIAL LAUNCH OF MOUNTAIN DEW WAS A JOKE. Joe Loong, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0 In Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World, Tristan Donovan recounts the first launch of Mountain Dew at a 1946 soda convention. As a joke, the Hartman brothers decided to have their friend John Brichetto draw a cartoon label featuring a rifle-toting hillbilly. They then “announced” the launch of the new soda that they had been brewing in stills back home in Tennessee. To their surprise, a bottler from Johnson City, Tenn. asked about the bottling rights for the private soda, and by 1951, the commercial Mountain Dew was ready for store shelves. 4. THE ORIGINAL MOUNTAIN DEW DIDN'T TASTE LIKE TODAY'S VERSION. elycefeliz, Flickr // CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 If mixing today’s green Mountain Dew into a glass of bourbon sounds gross, you’ll be happy to learn that the Hartmans’ original recipe was much closer to today’s 7UP or Sprite. This version of the soda never truly found a niche in the marketplace, and in 1957, the Marion, Va.-based Tip Corporation bought the Mountain Dew brand from the Hartmans. In 2001, Ally Hartman’s son revealed to the Associated Press that he had turned down the opportunity to buy the brand for $1500 when he was just 19 years old, so his father and uncle sold out to the Tip Corporation instead. |
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Apologies, i am eating crackers and peanut butter and drinking an iced coffee from Dunkin donuts. I am plotting to have a salad with brown rice and balsamic vinaigrette with a couple of low fat croutons for dinner in about 2 hours
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