Diet Mountain Dew: Best Soda Ever
Why do they call them soft drinks? I mean, I guess they’re not really hard. In reality, it wouldn’t be veracious to describe a liquid as anything other than wet. But is this a product review or a lesson in semantics? Alas, it is the former.
Whether you call it pop or soda, take it with calories or not, there is only one soft drink that stands head and shoulders above the rest. Do you do the Dew?
The reason why Diet Mountain is better than regular Mountain Dew is because there is no reason. I have never tasted a substance (whether it be soda, gravy or milk) where the diet version tastes so similar to the original version. Now, I know what you’re thinkingâÂ?¦they don’t make diet gravy and soy milk doesn’t count. Or, maybe you were thinking; does Diet Mountain Dew really taste that much like regular Mountain Dew?
The answer is a resounding yes.
I believe it was Diet Dr. Pepper that had the slogan that went something like, “Diet Dr. Pepper tastes just like regular Dr. Pepper.” Maybe many diet colas have used this slogan; it seems like the best thing you can say about your diet product (if this is in fact the case). For what it’s worth, Diet Dr. Pepper does taste a lot like Dr. Pepper; however, it’s only my third or fourth favorite soda. My second carbonated beverage of choice is Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi, which has a very different taste than its original counterpart. So, as you see, just tasting like the original is not the only criteria for maximum enjoyment; for me anyway (I realize this says more about my opinion of the palatableness of Dr. Pepper than anything else; therefore, I digress).
So where was I? Oh yeah, Diet Mountain Dew is awesome. It’s awesome because it’s Mountain Dew and because it’s diet. To reiterate, I comprehend absolutely no difference in taste between the original Dew and its long delayed diet twin (although Mountain Dew has existed for quite some time, they only started manufacturing the diet version in the past year or so).
Now if calories were not a factor and I was not kind of fat and I could choose from any soda in the world, I probably wouldn’t pick Mountain Dew. I’d probably pick Coca Cola Classic or an orange soda (on a side note, why is it that, to me at least, every brand of orange soda tastes exactly the same), I might even take an A&W Cream Soda too, but that’s about it. “Um, so dude, why don’t you just drink Diet Coke?”
Great question, hypothetical question asker, let me tell you. I do like Diet Coke and I drink it often, but for some reason Diet Coke has a completely different taste than the original (as many other diet versions from yesteryear do, for some reason). I’ve grown to like the taste of Diet Coke, which is something I can’t say for many of my other favorite soft drinks (all of the diet orange sodas that I’ve drank have tasted like leg pit sweat).
So there you have it. While reg. Mountain Dew isn’t my number one choice; its diet carbon copy trumps the versions of my other soda favorites. It’s a simple enough equation and it’s led to my consumption of two Diet Dew 12 packs a week. But there are other, less scientific reasons for my appreciation of Diet Mountain Dew. Would you like to hear them?
Caffeine and color are the other reasons why I appreciate Diet Mountain Dew more than my own parents. Diet Mountain Dew (and reg. Dew for that matter) is one of the only lime-like sodas that is jam packed with caffeine, and I really like caffeine. I base this on no actual “evidence”, but Diet Mountain Dew has at least three times the caffeine of Coca Cola (at least it feels like that after I’ve pounded three in a row). The other great thing about Diet Dew is the color. Now, I usually drink it from cans, so I can’t see it as I pour it down my throat, but I know. It is a greenish color, almost a cross between Slimer from Ghostbusters and the ooze in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. It’s pretty awesome.
So that’s it. If you’re a diet soft drink fanatic like me, you’ve got to try the Diet Dew.
