Mountain Dew. Dear lord people drink the shit out of it. My brother Tim drinks it more than water.
While living in the South, we call all sodas “Coke” and I swear most men in the south, with goatees and either really short hair or really long hair drink this stuff like it’s the cure for cancer. And yes, I love Mountain Dew. I think I prefer Mello Yello, but the Dew is a quick second in the neon-yellow drink column.
Mountain Dew is actually slang for Moonshine. It all makes sense now.
The thing about this wonderful drink is that you don’t need to pair it with a thing. It doesn’t need sides, condiments, or main courses. It’s like drinking Skittles. It’s not really what foods go with liquid crack, but what activities.
Like fishing.
Or muddin’.
Or cussin’.
As the years go by and the city encroaches upon our wonderful suburbia and trailer parks, we have slowly stopped calling all soft drinks “Coke” and now just say soda. Up in the North, it’s pop. Out West, eh who cares? They’re not even people, anyway. So I no longer get asked, “What kinda coke you want?” To which I’d reply, “Mella Yella.” That’s right, a slang term that was slanged gets slanged again. What will our future children call Mello Yello? Meh.
My favorite type of Mountain Dew, since there have been over 12 jillion varieties, was “Game Fuel” that was marketed with the release of Halo 3. I had the special Halo 3 edition of X-Box 360, my Halo 3 controller, Halo 3 headset, and Halo 3 Mountain Dew Game Fuel. God damn did I ever fall for a marketing plan.
Then came Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat.
Man, I want a Mello Yello right now.
While living in the South, we call all sodas “Coke” and I swear most men in the south, with goatees and either really short hair or really long hair drink this stuff like it’s the cure for cancer. And yes, I love Mountain Dew. I think I prefer Mello Yello, but the Dew is a quick second in the neon-yellow drink column.
Mountain Dew is actually slang for Moonshine. It all makes sense now.
The thing about this wonderful drink is that you don’t need to pair it with a thing. It doesn’t need sides, condiments, or main courses. It’s like drinking Skittles. It’s not really what foods go with liquid crack, but what activities.
Like fishing.
Or muddin’.
Or cussin’.
As the years go by and the city encroaches upon our wonderful suburbia and trailer parks, we have slowly stopped calling all soft drinks “Coke” and now just say soda. Up in the North, it’s pop. Out West, eh who cares? They’re not even people, anyway. So I no longer get asked, “What kinda coke you want?” To which I’d reply, “Mella Yella.” That’s right, a slang term that was slanged gets slanged again. What will our future children call Mello Yello? Meh.
My favorite type of Mountain Dew, since there have been over 12 jillion varieties, was “Game Fuel” that was marketed with the release of Halo 3. I had the special Halo 3 edition of X-Box 360, my Halo 3 controller, Halo 3 headset, and Halo 3 Mountain Dew Game Fuel. God damn did I ever fall for a marketing plan.
Then came Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat.
Man, I want a Mello Yello right now.
Hey we up north call it soda too! Its those bastards in Buffalo that won't comply!
ReplyDeleteI know Ohio and parts of Michigan call it pop. I lived in upstate New York for a bit and the small town I was in had no identity, so they said 'em all.
ReplyDeletePennsylvania definitely says pop as well. I've tried calling it pop but it just didn't sound right.
ReplyDeleteIn southern California, I grew up saying coke regardless of the actual soft drink being considered.
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