# Caffeine-free Mountain Dew? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 31, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492 "2001-01-31T02:08:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492/21 "2001-02-01T05:58:15Z")
Nantucket Nectars is available in Southern Ca, where I now live, and I’ve had it before in Northern Ca as well. I seem to remember that the toll free number is: 1-800-TWOTOMS Because the guys that started the company are both named Tom. Funny how worthless knowledge tends to stick in your brain. ---
**Author:** ![cegan523](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/fbc32d/32.png) [@cegan523](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cegan523)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2001, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492/22 "2001-02-01T06:43:19Z")
While living in Washington State, I had a Mormon co-worker who always complained that he couldn’t find any caffeine free Mt Dew. I’d never heard of such a silly thing. When asked where he’d seen it, he gave the obvious answer. “Salt Lake City” Makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Bazooka\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@Bazooka\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bazooka_Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492/23 "2001-02-02T23:57:49Z")
Weird, I was shopping at my local Giant Eagle grocery store here in Cleveland Ohio yesterday and noticed caffiene free Mountain Dew for the first time. My inital reaction was, “what’s the point of that?” But to each his own. ---
**Author:** ![kpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@kpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kpm)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492/24 "2001-02-03T17:16:55Z")
They’ve been marketing caffeine-free Mountain Dew in NC for at least a year. It’s in the grocery store, located right next to the regular stuff. (Look carefully. If you’re not paying attention, it’s easy to pick up the Diet, or Caffeine-free Diet instead of the caffeine-free sugar filled version.) kpm drinks it, I don’t Spouse of kpm ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492/25 "2001-02-03T17:54:35Z")
I was about to put some word-sounds here like Gah or Ug, but nothing I could think of quite expressed the revulsion I feel toword the very IDEA of Caffeine free Mt. Dew. It just seems so damned pointless. Kinda like nicotine free cigerettes,(note: I don’t smoke.) or alcohol free beer. (Alcohol free beer. Another abomination.) I am a slave to Mt. Dew. I am a caffeine addict. If I do not get some caffeine every day, I get the fun, blinding headaches of withdrawl. There are days when the Dew tastes like a gift from the gods. There are also days it tastes like it was strained through a sweat-sock. But I MUST HAVE IT. I too would like to know the reasoning of Canadian law regarding caffinated Citrus drinks. Living as close as I do to our northerly neighbors, I know now to bring my OWN Dew if I ever visit. Or will I get Busted by the Mountees for smuggling? Hmm. Band name…Busted by the Mountees. Nah. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492/26 "2001-02-03T20:48:31Z")
Bleah. Who’d drink that? I mean, if I wanted that, I’d just drink my OWN urine. Citra all the way for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/caffeine-free-mountain-dew/52492.md?page=1)