New Diet Mountain Dew formula?!

I know a lot of programmers share Dt. Dew as a drink of choice.  I'm wondering if anyone else has tasted the new formula ("Tuned Up Taste") yet.  It just made it to our office vending machines two days ago. 

In my opinion, I hope this will go down like New Coke!

Yeah, I hope it goes away too.  The stuff tastes like mule sperm

bluvg wrote:

I know a lot of programmers share Dt. Dew as a drink of choice.  I'm wondering if anyone else has tasted the new formula ("Tuned Up Taste") yet.  It just made it to our office vending machines two days ago. 

In my opinion, I hope this will go down like New Coke!

rjdohnert wrote:

Yeah, I hope it goes away too.  The stuff tastes like mule sperm

bluvg wrote: I know a lot of programmers share Dt. Dew as a drink of choice.  I'm wondering if anyone else has tasted the new formula ("Tuned Up Taste") yet.  It just made it to our office vending machines two days ago.  In my opinion, I hope this will go down like New Coke!

Why would you know what mule sperm tastes like?

Viva Dr. Pepper!

I just found a site detailing how to make your dissatisfaction heard:

http://newdietdewisyucky.com/

Good thing Mountain Dew is banned over here

Simply a figure of speech.

DoomBringer wrote:

rjdohnert wrote: Yeah, I hope it goes away too.  The stuff tastes like mule sperm bluvg wrote: I know a lot of programmers share Dt. Dew as a drink of choice.  I'm wondering if anyone else has tasted the new formula ("Tuned Up Taste") yet.  It just made it to our office vending machines two days ago.  In my opinion, I hope this will go down like New Coke!

Why would you know what mule sperm tastes like?

bluvg wrote:

In my opinion, I hope this will go down like New Coke!

This could be enterpreted either as you wishing it to "go away" like the new Coke, or as you wishing it "tastes" like New Coke. I'll assume the former; and thusly agree.

W3bbo, limiting your options primarily based on health concerns is never a good thing.  It should be up to you whether or not you want to poison your body with this snot soup.  Having said that, I drink full-flavor Mountain Dew at a rate of about 6-12 cans a day. It tastes better in a can.

I'm a Sprite man.

- Steve

Good thing they have Diet MDX, it is good!  

Your assumption is correct.  As with New Coke, they made it quite a bit sweeter.  I can see how, in a taste test, you sip one and the other and think about the sweeter one, "yeah, that tastes better."  But that doesn't mean you want a whole can of the stuff!

bluvg wrote:

Your assumption is correct.  As with New Coke, they made it quite a bit sweeter.  I can see how, in a taste test, you sip one and the other and think about the sweeter one, "yeah, that tastes better."  But that doesn't mean you want a whole can of the stuff!

They made it sweeter? Yuck.  It's bad enough that it already eats away at your teeth...so add more sugar?

No not sugar, some diet sweetener, I have not looked at the bottole ot see if it is aspertame or sucralose, or like one I saw the other day saccharin(sugar free full throttle fury)!

billh wrote:

bluvg wrote:Your assumption is correct.  As with New Coke, they made it quite a bit sweeter.  I can see how, in a taste test, you sip one and the other and think about the sweeter one, "yeah, that tastes better."  But that doesn't mean you want a whole can of the stuff!

They made it sweeter? Yuck.  It's bad enough that it already eats away at your teeth...so add more sugar?

Well, since it's a diet drink, they didn't add more sugar, they probably added more aspartame.  And I'll leave it up to you as to the health "benefits" of that.

CannotResolveSymbol wrote:

Well, since it's a diet drink, they didn't add more sugar, they probably added more aspartame.  And I'll leave it up to you as to the health "benefits" of that.

Ah..."diet" Mountain Dew...didn't see that.  I've done pretty much everything I could to avoid aspartame (for lots of reasons that I won't list here).  It always had a weird aftertaste anyway.

Interestingly, the canned version uses a different formula than the fountain version (http://www.mountaindew.com/about_dew/product_info/dmd.php).  The fountain version does contain saccharin, which was a surprise to me ("Where's the Tab key?").

The new canned formula still has aspartame, but it also has acesulfame potassium and sucralose.  Sodium benzoate has made the ingredients list, as well... and not as a replacement to potassium benzoate.  Maybe they want to extend that "freshness date" a ways?