Mountain Dew facts for kids
Mountain Dew is a citrus-flavored soft drink, made by the PepsiCo company. The drink has more caffeine (a stimulant) than other soft drinks like Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
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History
"Mountain Dew" was first a slang word for moonshine or homemade whisky. The name for the soft drink was first trademarked by Ally and Barney Hartman in the 1940s. Early bottles were printed with the words: “Yahoo Mountain Dew…It’ll tickle your innards.” The bottles were green and had a cartoon drawing of a hillbilly moonshiner with a gun. This design lasted until the mid 1960s.
Flavors
Mountain Dew has different flavors:
- Diet: a flavor which has no calories.
- Code Red: a cherry flavor.
- Voltage: a blue colored raspberry-citrus and ginseng flavor.
- Baja Blast: a tropical lime and pineapple flavored Mountain Dew, which can only be found at Taco Bell.
- White Out: a citrus (lemon, lime orange, and grapefruit) flavor with a smokey white color
- LiveWire: An orange flavored Mountain Dew, also colored orange.
Images for kids
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A 1950s Mountain Dew advertisement sign in Tonto, Arizona, showing the cartoon character "Willie the Hillbilly"
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Two sides of an early Mountain Dew bottle using the "Hillbilly" design. These returnable bottles could be found in stores and vending machines until the late 1980s.
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DEWmocracy 1: People's Dew (2008) flavor finalists: Revolution, Voltage, and Supernova
See also
In Spanish: Mountain Dew para niños
