August 10, 2004

Mountain Dew Pitch Black ("Don't be afraid of the dark!") and Pepsi Holiday Spice ("Spice up the holidays!") As one Important Pop Guy says, "By introducing new flavors for a short period of time, then taking them away, we're meeting the wants and needs of soft-drink consumers while playing directly to their purchasing patterns."
posted by SideDish 20 years ago
  • You know, I'm rather looking forward to these. As long as they don't have a Mountain Dew: Chronicles of Riddick, or Pepsi Spice World, I think I'll be okay.
  • That Mt. Dew drink sounds pretty damn good.
  • PEPSI BLU- er... PEPSI SOME OTHER COLOUR!!!! ;-)
  • No way dude, I'd have to fight 10,000+ years of human evolution to force down a pitch-black drink. At least with grape juice you can still see what's lurking in the bottom.
  • For some reason, I don't think that Pepsi Holiday Spice will be able to compete with Harpoon Winter Warmer or Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Ale, my favorite holiday drinks.
  • I love these kooky soda kicks. They are usually disgusting, but it always satisfies my inner 5 year old to try them. Then it's back to Diet Coke. Except when I can only find it in 1.5 liter bottles which I've boycotted.
  • Also, if you think these flavors are off the wall, try taking the tour of the Coca-Cola facilities in Atlanta sometime. Mango Coke! Papaya Coke!
  • I've been there Trey... and it truely is an amazing thing to behold. For the un-initiated, Trey is speaking of a room filled with soda fountains every Coke product manufactured around the world for the sampling. Don't forget the lichi and the tamarind. And my favorite...Lilt, the pineapple soda sold in the UK.
  • They both sound pretty good, actually. I'll probably try them when they come out. Then again, I always liked a shot of vanilla syrup in my Coke, but Vanilla Coke was a disappointment - nasty stuff.
  • I just had to pick up the twinge of sarcasm in the post and say that I agree -- I'm beginning to hate the never-ending lineup of "here today, gone tomorrow" items. Back when I ate fast food a lot, I'd just grow to love some new item, then it would disappear from the menu a month later. I kind of imposed my own backlash against it by shunning new items on the menu. Who started this anyway -- was it the McDonald's Pizza? I guess maybe it was New Coke, but they had actually intended that to last.
  • Mango Coke! Papaya Coke! Trey, I think I might need to take a road trip down to 'lanta just for a magical mixture of coke and mango.
  • Rolypolyman, you do occasionally get the revival item... like the McRib. It comes and goes, thereby retaining that "special" quality. I am ashamed to say that the return of the McRib is always a joyful time for me and my sister.
  • Only Skeletor can drink Pepsi Blue. ONLY SKELETOR!
  • I'd have to fight 10,000+ years of human evolution to force down a pitch-black drink. um... spackle? what the hell are you talking about? (i don't trust a drink i can see through...)
  • I miss Pic-a-Pop.
  • Dark beers are excepted 'cuz the alcohol will sterilize the creepycrawlies and render the drinker ungrossoutable.
  • black stuff + creamy froth = happy me
  • Um, I was talking about the beer there.
  • Pepsi Holiday Spice sounds pretty f'n awesome. I will be all over that, sugary as it is.
  • hey mid that reminds me of a black cow, a.k.a. root-beer float... yum...
  • I enjoy all of Pepsi co's fine products, and can't wait for them to make more for me to throw money at!
  • hey mid that reminds me of a black cow, a.k.a. root-beer float... yum... I thought only my family or transplanted Midwesterners used that term. Specifically, I thought it was mainly my dad, who still refers to the refrigerator as an "icebox."
  • I love those sorts of black cows btw.
  • Arby's sometimes had Black Cow Milkshakes as their "shake of the week" when I was growing up; I'm not sure if this is still the case.
  • "No man, women, race, or assembly of Republicans was successful at bringing down the Root Beer Float for good. The float is, and always has been, too much of a force to be reckoned with." yes, it's a complete history of the root beer float.
  • (BTW, bearguy, i am indeed a transplanted midwesterner. northern illinoisan to be exact. hurray for sweet corn that's "knee high by the fourth of july!")
  • Ginger beer = good, so ginger Pepsi = maybe good, give it a shot. However, what rock do the people who think Pepsi is "new," "different," and "innovative," live under, exactly?
  • Woo-hoo, my dad is a transplanted Chicagoan, it all becomes clear to me! *makes plans to make Black Cow for this evening...
  • You should see the corn down here is southwest Illinois, SideDish; July just ended and the damn stuff is eight feet tall and sweet as molasses. Got several ears in the icebox waiting to be shuckt and boilt. /another transplanted shucawgowin, only not to so far away as SideDish
  • in the meantime? It's over now, take your big black cow, and get outta heeeeeerre...
  • If Pepsi Holiday Spice is anything like that clear soda they once made (name escapes me), I'll buy it. That was tasty.
  • You should see the corn down here in Tennessee -- it's thirty feet tall, sweeter than an RC Cola, and has developed its own sibilant and terrifying language which it only speaks to children walking alone on moonless nights.
  • Thanks, SideDish! Mmmmm, spiced cola.
  • Update: I'm drinking a Mountain Dew Pitch Black right now and it's everything a soda should be: super sugary, super sweet, and fizzy. As someone who doesn't drink soda very often, I like my soda to be very "soda-y" when I DO indulge.
  • Maybe I'll have to try some. I think it's great that there is a news network for beverages. Long live the internet!
  • Last night I spotted bottles of mixed-berry flavored pink 7UP Plus at the store. It reminded me of cherry 7UP, but I didn't buy either of those. I'm holding out for Pepsi Holiday Spice.