Saint in Paradise Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 An attempt to win a small court battle this week has put Mountain Dew in peril of losing a much larger war. PepsiCo, the soft drink's parent company, defended itself against a man who claimed he found a dead mouse in a can of the citrus soda. Experts called in by PepsiCo's lawyers offered a stomach-churning explanation for why it couldn't be true: the Mountain Dew would have dissolved the mouse, turning it into a "jelly-like substance, " had it been in the can of fluid from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff opened it, 15 months later. Forget legal disputes over canned vermin. The new question has become: Is Mountain Dew really so corrosive that it can dissolve a mouse carcass? And if so, what does it do to your teeth and intestines? Is Mountain Dew's classic slogan — "It'll tickle yore innards" — the world's most sickening understatement? Key to Pepsi's legal argument is that there's no chance a mouse's corpse could survive, intact, for 15 months swimming in Mountain Dew. While published studies have not been conducted on how rapidly Mountain Dew would dissolve a mouse, there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the neon green soda can eat away teeth and bones in a matter of months, and would likely do quite a number on a rodent. "I think it is plausible that it could dissolve a mouse in a few months," said Yan-Fang Ren of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, who has studied the effects of citric acid on bones and teeth. "But dissolving [the mouse] does not mean it will disappear, because you'll still have the collagen and the soft tissue part. It will be like rubber." http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2040-mountain-dew-dissolve-mouse-carcass.html In adition have a read of this as well http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/1149-mafia-victims-dissolve-sulfuric-acid.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skintsaint Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 MY missus drinks the stuff...think it has dissolved her common sense to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintscottofthenortham Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Apparently Full Fat CocaCola will dissolve a 6oz steak over night. Never tried it myself however and tbh, I wouldn't be surprised. So this doesn't suprise me at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint in Paradise Posted 17 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 17 January, 2012 MY missus drinks the stuff...think it has dissolved her common sense to be honest. Normal with most women regardless of what they drink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Not just Mountain Dew, but any carbonated sweated soft drinks are highly corrosive. Even something like Lemonade will cause serious damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 I use Tizer as a mouthwash when camping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 The only drinks which dont dissolve teeth are milk and water. http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/the-effects-of-different-drinks-on-teeth/4294.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjsaint Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Apparently Full Fat CocaCola will dissolve a 6oz steak over night. Never tried it myself however and tbh, I wouldn't be surprised. So this doesn't suprise me at all. This is a widely held rumour and is completely untrue. However, it's still pretty frightening stuff, not fit for human consumption. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MINIBARCELONASAINT Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 I never quite get the argument not for drinking it. If you bottled stomach acid, you wouldn't drink it for the same reasons........it is highly corrosive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Tastes nice though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ART Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 I've found Mountain Dew refreshing in hot weather when I've come across it. Nowadays I concoct my own soft drinks using cheap "fruit flavored effervescent vitamins" from LIDL placed in a 2 litre bottle of tap water and sweetened with aspartame. I occasionally add 10 % orange juice, or multi fruit juice or lemon juice. I swear most taste identical to soda's sold in supermarkets but costs next to nothing and non fattening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ART Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 I'm sticking to my own concoctions. The Mountain Dew ingredients don't look very healthy to me, “carbonated water, High-fructose corn syrup, concentrated orange juice, citric acid, natural flavors, sodium benzoate, caffeine, sodium citrate, erythorbic acid, gum arabic, calcium disodium EDTA, brominated vegetable oil, and yellow 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 18 January, 2012 Share Posted 18 January, 2012 True according to Snopes. http://www.snopes.com/medical/potables/mountaindewmouse.asp Think I'll stick to water in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ART Posted 20 January, 2012 Share Posted 20 January, 2012 Last week Glenfiddich found the dead body of one of their employees in a Vat. They closed down for 10 days to conduct a thorough cleaning. Hick! http://news.stv.tv/scotland/north/293066-worker-dies-at-whisky-distillery/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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