thomas@gondor.UUCP (Angel) (06/05/85)
[Choke, choke, cough, gasp...] Why don't all of you just drink Mountain Dew????? It's got lots of sugar and caffeine to keep you going during those long hacking sessions!!!! [Blecch!! This Coke tastes different.] -- Angel | "But first, here's Jean Kirkpatrick thomas@psuvaxg.BITNET | for Diet Mountain Dew..." thomas@gondor.UUCP | --Bloom County
hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (06/07/85)
> [Choke, choke, cough, gasp...] > > Why don't all of you just drink Mountain Dew????? > > It's got lots of sugar and caffeine to keep you going during those > long hacking sessions!!!! > > [Blecch!! This Coke tastes different.] > > -- > Angel | "But first, here's Jean Kirkpatrick Although I've now more-or-less been substituting Mountain Dew for Old Coke, there are reasons I cannot accept this as the ONE TRUE REAL THING-substitute. 1) Taste limits. My guts are calibrated to the slightly acidic, take-the-enamel-off-your-teeth flavor of Coke. So long as there's a men's room in the Computer Science building, I can drink Coke until the combined effects of 40 hours of awakeness and Hack finally shuts me down. Unfortunately, I have found some assorted limits (besides availability of quarters) my taste buds are set to: Pepsi 1 Pizza Hut(tm) pitcher (only when there's pizza to wash it down with; I won't drink it otherwise so any other measurements are irrelevant) Mountain Dew 5 cans. Maybe 6, but I think the sugar got to me. Sunkist 2 cans. Headaches, y'know. Mug root beer 3 cans. These things have an bizarre aftertaste I know I don't especially care for. A&W root beer 6 cans. Somewhat less of a problem than Mountain Dew, but I have this bad habit of drinking it with a Hershey's Big Block. Dr. Brown's 2 cans. Any of their products are weird enough that I can't take any more. Sprite Most any number. Not an inspiring drink, but it's there. 7up 3 cans. Too bland. Mello Yello None. Spent 2 weeks at a camp once where the machines only had this stuff. Between this stuff and Gumpert's Instant (vitamin enriched) Drink mix, guess who won. Now guess which soda I'll never touch again. Dr. Pepper 2 cans. I'm not a Pepper. Old Tyme Ginger beer 1 can. Can you imagine a drink which has all the properties of freshly sliced ginger? Canada Dry Ginger Ale 4 cans. Another boring drink. Diet anything Uh, right. The taste is unmistakable. I've used several successfully in chemical warfare against skunks. 'Nuff said. Now that I've bored you all to death I suppose I should solicit other personal limits on soft drink consumption. These measurements made courtesy of the University of Maryland Student Union, one unnamed camp, and the Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, MD) Chess Club And Plastic Card And Frisbee Throwing Team. -dave <wwhhheeerrrre is the oooooold c-c-cccoke???> hsu
hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) (06/07/85)
I did promise you a couple of reasons...
2) Here, it's found in Pepsi machines. Although I'm no longer a big fan
of Coke, I'd rather not mess with the OTHER machine unless needed. You
see, we had a Pepsi machine here in which you could hit Root Beer twice,
and anything else once, and get all three. Every time. Naturally, the
local canning people noticed, so they substituted Diet Pepsi for Root
Beer. You can guess the net result. Nobody touches that button.
Curses, foiled again.
3) It's very difficult to get a cold Mountain Dew on this campus. I'm not
certain why, but that's just the way it is. Maybe it's cold only on the
liberal arts side; who knows.
Okay...that's my 3 reasons.
-dave