Anyone buy these yet? I just bought a Mountain Dew.
A quick lowdown - until June 13, they will be making Pepsi and Mountain Dew with natural sugar, the way they used to make it back in the day, instead of the now-customary high fructose corn syrup, which the big cola companies switched to sometime during the 1980s.
They've also gone back to the retro labels for a while. Seeeee?
I like the old Mountain Dew label much better. I don't know why they made it look so jaded and ugly. I guess the new label is more "mountainy"? More "rugged-looking"? Eh. I like this good old wavy-lettered hippy '60s label.
I've read a lot of different reviews online from people who've tried it.
I'm not generally a huge Pepsi and Mountain Dew drinker anyway, but from what I can tell? It tastes very similar. Definitely not as fizzy. (And other people have said that too.) It doesn't seem to have as much of an aftertaste, either. While it tastes good, you don't feel the need to keep guzzling it. I am thinking that one subtle difference must be the absence of the highly addictive quality of high fructose corn syrup, which is in practically every bad-for-you food and drink nowadays. Okay, I know, sugar isn't any better, but... I can see why so many more people struggle with weight today vs. 30 years ago. Our food and drinks are getting more and more fake and full of strange additives.