# Do the Dew! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 22, 1999, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dew/1674 "1999-06-22T22:52:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 1999, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dew/1674/1 "1999-06-22T22:52:00Z")
What flavor is Mountain Dew? It’s marketed as an alternative to Sprite and 7-Up, but it sure isn’t lemon-lime? Could it be lemon-orange? I believe one of the ingredients is concentrated orange juice… * * * “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way…” –Jessica Rabbit, **Who Framed Roger Rabbit** ---
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I seem to associate Mountain Dew with grapefruit juice. Perhaps that’s the flavor you’re looking for. ---
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In the Canadian Govt., all job postings are in English and French. There have been a lot of “deployments” recently, and this has been translated into French as “mutation”. ---
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Oops! Meant to put that in the “Weird Jobs” thread. Apologies! ---
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The secret ingredient is industrial waste. ---
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It contains concentrated orange juice according to the label. Here’s a fun fact. In Japan the orange concentrate is replaced with _tangerine_ concentrate. Oh yeah, and apparently Canadian Mountain Dew has no caffeine. There are way too many people with Mountain Dew sites. For example: [http://www.acts.org/roland/mt.dew/nmr1.large.gif](http://www.acts.org/roland/mt.dew/nmr1.large.gif) The guy actually ran the Dew through an NMR. Alphagene ---
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NMR? NMR New Mobile RAPCON NMR News Media Representative 😃 NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ---
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Personally, I prefer Sprite to Dew, and if I’m at a place that only serves Pepsi products, I always try to get a lemon-lime Slice whenever possible. Unfortunatlely, since it’s treated as an alternative to Sprite even though it’s a different flavor. Still, Mountain Dew isn’t that bad, it’s just that I think lemon-lime soda tastes better. * * * “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way…” –Jessica Rabbit, **Who Framed Roger Rabbit** ---
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I don’t understand the concept of Mountain Dew without caffeine. Don’t get me wrong, I like the flavor, but mainly I drink the stuff when 1) I need to wake up, or 2) I sense an impending headache from caffeine withdrawal. It’s convenient because it’s sold in the office vending machine, as neither Jolt nor Water Joe are. (I’ve also been known to drink coffee, but only 50/50 with milk. My company has only that powdered creamer crap; I’m sure this is why they have such a high turnover among programmers.) ---
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I don’t understand the concept of Mountain Dew without caffeine. ]]] auraseer Atta boy! You’ll soon become one of us. Get ready to move up to a purer source. Don’t get me wrong, I like the flavor, but mainly I drink the stuff when 1) I need to wake up, or 2) I sense an impending headache from caffeine withdrawal. Come on over to the dark roast side. You have no choice, it is willed. You are one of us now. (hey, anyone else here hear dark congested breathing?) It’s convenient because it’s sold in the office vending machine, as neither Jolt nor Water Joe are.]]] auraseer A likely story. You will find it in its manny forms if only you seeeeeeeeek! Or seek, whatever. Tell the guy that fills the pop machine, duh. They’ll fill whatever sells. (I’ve also been known to drink coffee, but only 50/50 with milk. ]]] Hehe, he only started on half doses. (still, you are now ours) My company has only that powdered creamer crap; I’m sure this is why they have such a high turnover among programmers.)]]] " I couldn’t work at that place because it used Cremora, instead of real cream. " “I found it impossible to create a really good powder explosion using only CoffeeMate.” What the hell did you expect? You could hardly blame turnover on that, though. Good luck suing for that. _ya freakin crybaby. Why in my day, we had to clean our own freakin coffeepots!_ _whimp!_ -uh, sorry, must be the caffeine talkin’- ---
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Shit, I thought this thread was gonna’ be about making love in the grass. I must be watching _way_ too much porn. ---
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As an Canadian friend described it, it’s illegal to artifically add caffine to a product in Canada, so there’s your no-caffine Dew. Insert your own anti-Canada joke here, 'cause I’m not getting flamed for it. * * * “I guess it is possible for one person to make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
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Jophiel writes: As an Canadian friend described it, it’s illegal to artifically add caffine to a product in Canada, so there’s your no-caffine Dew. –Woah. Woah. Does this mean Coke and Pepsi have no caffine in Canada? Just askin’ ---
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There’s a weird law in this country that says that colas may contain caffeine, but other softdrinks may not. It wasn’t always that way - I remember Mountain Dew used to contain more caffeine than other brands&flavours, but now it doesn’t have any. I vaguely remember there being some kind of media fuss about caffeine in soft drinks back in the early 70’s. That’s probably when the law came in. ---
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Getting a little off the topic, Yellow 5 is one of the ingredients in Mountain Dew and people tell me it reduces sperm count. How exactly does that work? Does it shrink the testicles, derange the sperm… what? * * * “[He] beat his fist down upon the table and hurt his hand and became so further enraged… that he beat his fist down upon the table even harder and hurt his hand some more.” – Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 ---
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Aura, you are my friend! That powdered “cream” stuff (soybean oil, corn syrup, etc) is a blasphemous (sp??) mutation. **DOWN WITH CREAMORA!!** 😉 ---
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> [@](#): > > Getting a little off the topic, Yellow 5 is one of the ingredients in Mountain Dew and people tell me it reduces sperm count. How exactly does that work? Does it shrink the testicles, derange the sperm… what? Shame on you. Unka Cece dealt with this one! [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/970829.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/970829.html) * * * ‘They couldn’t hit an Elephant from this dist…!’ Last words of General John Sedgwick ---
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**BugZap** , you needn’t bother trying to make me a coffee convert; I just don’t particularly like the taste of the stuff. It’s not bad as a flavoring in something else, so if I’m in the mood, I literally drink milk & sugar with a little coffee mixed in. And when you say I’m only on “half doses”, I hope you’re talking about coffee, and not caffeine in general. I drink a _lot_ of caffeine. When I was in high school and too young to buy alcohol, my friends and I would get our kicks from liter bottles of Jolt. (That’s a liter at a time, each.) My tolerance is now high enough that I can drink almost a six-pack of Dew and go straight to bed. My dependency is now so strong that going more than 36 hours without a fix results in a blinding headache from withdrawal. (It used to be about 20 hours, but I’ve been cutting down.) I have a picture of the caffeine molecule on the wall next to my PC. The caption says “The Breakfast Of Champions.” All of which brings me to another question. Does long-term caffeine consumption do any harm to the body? I know that more than a certain dose can be fatal-- on occasion I’ve gotten heart palpitations during a long all-nighter-- but I’m more interested in any little hurts that build up over time. (Alcohol causes cirrhosis; smoking causes cancer; if my own major vice is fixing to kill me, I might like to know about it. =B^) ---
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> [@](#): > > All of which brings me to another question. Does long-term caffeine consumption do any harm to the body? I know that more than a certain dose can be fatal-- on occasion I’ve gotten heart palpitations during a long all-nighter-- but I’m more interested in any little hurts that build up over time. > (Alcohol causes cirrhosis; smoking causes cancer; if my own major vice is fixing to kill me, I might like to know about it. =B^) Well, I was just told by my doctor (last Monday) that my caffeine intake is causing irregular heartbeat; the palpitations you mention. He has told me to cut way back and said it could lead to heart problems later on. * * * “You can’t run away forever; but there’s nothing wrong with getting a good head start.” — Jim Steinman Dennis Matheson — [Dennis@mountaindiver.com](mailto:Dennis@mountaindiver.com) Hike, Dive, Ski, Climb — [www.mountaindiver.com](http://www.mountaindiver.com) ---
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[In my best Bela Lugosi voice] I’m sorry, BugZap but I do not drink…coffee [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-the-dew/1674.md?page=2)