For a limited time only (April 20th to June 13th), Pepsi is releasing Pepsi Throwback and Mountain Dew Throwback, both made with real sugar (probably beet) instead of high fructose corn syrup.
Nice. I can get a glass bottle of real sugar Pepsi any time I want at any number of mercados and halal markets around town, but Mountain Dew? Never been available before. So that part's awesome. My only gripe: why the plastic bottles? Soda from plastic tastes disgusting to me after drinking only glass bottle and aluminum can soda the past few years.
Anyway, I bet the corn farmers are pissed. First the whole "grass-fed beef" madness and now this.
At first, I thought the new Pepsi logo did so poorly that they decided to switch to that old one.
Posted by: s4xton | February 23, 2009 at 06:26 PM
The corn farmers will be okay. They still have their "It's made of corn; how bad can it be?" ad campaign to fall back on.
Posted by: Emily | February 23, 2009 at 07:30 PM
guess it's prob too "non-pc" to have the shooting-hillbilly-with-pig-and-outhouse logo that mt. dew had back in olden times. oh well... ow! my teeth already hurt in anticipation of all that real sugar!
Posted by: jameser | February 24, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Yeah, what is it with the plastic bottles? It always tastes off. Though, fountain soda beats them all.
Posted by: Bexley | February 24, 2009 at 12:54 AM
Is the Passover Coke out yet??
Posted by: Deb | February 24, 2009 at 05:18 AM
I know what you mean about the plastic bottles. Even though the aluminum cans have a sort of taste to them, I guess I sort of like it. I much prefer cans to drinking from plastic. Glass is the best, though.
And though I've never seen Pepsi or Mountain Dew, you can always find Coke made with real sugar during Passover.
Posted by: ldfs | February 24, 2009 at 04:16 PM
Corn farmers will be fine. Corn makes steak taste awesome, and corn itself is yummy. There will always be *some* demand for corn.
It's big corporations like ADM that are pushing sugar embargoes so we use it for sweetener and E85 restrictions so we burn it in our gas tanks that will take a hit, and I couldn't be happier about it.
Posted by: Tara | March 10, 2009 at 06:05 PM
Just found this site - as a local I appreciate the links you have to start.
I have been on a rabid search for Passover coke. Does anyone know where to find it in the Twin Cities??
Posted by: David | March 27, 2009 at 09:43 AM