Being a cola fan, I can’t believe I didn’t hear about this until I read this thread yesterday. I went to the store after work and picked some up (after a bunch of searching…the packaging didn’t stand out and there wasn’t much there…end of the limited time I suppose). I have to agree that the Pepsi Throwback is perhaps the greatest thing ever. If only Coca-Cola would pick up on this too!
I didn’t see any Throwback Mtn. Dew, but I want to try that as well.
Really? The packaging is what caught my eye for the MD Throwback. It was the solid green as opposed to the current multi-shaded, geometric patterns that first caught my eye, followed by, “Whoa, did they go back to the old logo?”
Yeah, it was buried amidst all the regular Pepsi. Different logo and different shade of blue, but it didn’t stand out. I doubt I’d have seen it if I hadn’t been looking for it.
Ah, okay. My local Safeway had all the Throwback stacked up on an endcap.
The Mountain Dew Throwback kind of tastes like Sierra Mist to me.
Sorry for the zombie thread, but it looks like Pepsi and Mountain Dew throwbacks are back at the very end of 2009!
Yay! That means I can start drinking the spare 12 pack I bought a few months ago!
I’m a big anti-HFCS nut and I didn’t really like Throwback. I wish they hadn’t used beet sugar, which tastes more… beety than cane sugar.
Pepsi Natural, which may be gone as well, was much, much better. Basically Pepsi re-created using natural ingredients. Sparkling water, cane sugar, kola nut extract, caramel, etc.
Good. I liked it, but it pains my sweet tooth that Coke has yet to do the same thing.
Slight hijack out of curiosity.
Why do Coke and Pepsi only seem to market HFCS pop in the US?
Anything I’ve ever seen for sale in Canada has sugar only, and according to this thread, Mexican coke is the same. 
(Not that I’m complaining…I’ve only had an “American style” coke product once, and it just wasn’t right)
Restrictions on the U.S. sugar market, which keep domestic sugar prices two or more times higher than world prices.
This thread is the first time I’ve heard the term. When I saw it before knowing what it was, I was torn between throw-up and back-wash. Maybe a combination of the two. Now I’ll have to force myself to try it.
Still no Pepsi Throwback in Phoenix
Also, manufacturing and bottling is typically done “locally” in order to eliminate long-distance shipping costs for what amounts to a lot of water. So the bottlers in other countries tend to use the old, real sugar formula rather than the HFCS formula.
I think the most common use of the word is in regard to evolution - describing a creature as being an evolutionary throwback. That is, a modern creature that appears to belong to an earlier version of the same species. I’ve also heard it as a rough synonym for “retro”, which is how it seems to be used in this case.