Pepsi Says Mountain Dew Can Dissolve Mouse Carcasses

[babylonsister]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/pepsi-says-mountain-dew-can-dissolve-mouse-carcasses/46868/

Pepsi Says Mountain Dew Can Dissolve Mouse Carcasses


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Eric Randall Jan 2, 2012


Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it. An Illinois man sued Pepsi in 2009 after he claims he "spat out the soda to reveal a dead mouse," the Madison County Record reports. He claims he sent the mouse to Pepsi, which then "destroyed" the remains after he allowed them to test it, according to his complaint. Most shudder-worthy, however, is that Pepsi's lawyers also found experts to testify, based on the state of the remains sent to them, that "the mouse would have dissolved in the soda had it been in the can from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff drank it," according to the Record. (It would have become a "jelly-like substance," according to Pepsi, adds LegalNewsline.) This seems like a winning-the-battle-while-surrendering-the-war kind of strategy that hinges on the argument that Pepsi's product is essentially a can of bright green/yellow battery acid. The lawyers still appear to be lawyering behind the scenes but we cannot wait for this to come to trial (though we think a trial is about as likely as the chances of us "Doing the Dew" ever again).

[Ian David]

1. Well, now I know what my daughter's science fair project will be this year. n/t

[yodermon]

4. FTW

lol

[Occulus]

12. That's just disgusting.

Good, though.

[louis-t]

2. The mouse would also have had diabetes

and would not have fit through the hole in the can to get into his mouth. Giggety.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Serves him right for stealing his cat's drink.

[SpiralHawk]

5. Wow - the UnRec crew is working overtime to bury this story

Kick -- and avoid that slimey slurpy slop.

[Ian David]

7. There is no UnRec anymore. n/t

[Uncle Joe]

11. There isn't an unrec anymore but perhaps someone recced it, then changed their mind and undoed

their own rec?

[Ian David]

14. Those bastards! n/t

[SpiralHawk]

15. Something like that - I saw my rec boost it up 1 - and then

...i saw the page refresh and it went down by 1.

What's up with that?

[Uncle Joe]

16. I don't know, SpiralHawk, I guess

dissolved mouse carcass in a Mountain Dew Beverage lost its' appeal upon further contemplation by said recommend/undoer villian?

[SpiralHawk]

22. I suppose. I'll drink up all the same -- glass of spring water, please

spare me the Corporate MouseCola with HFCS crapola.

[snooper2]

21. It's magic, kind of like magnets LOL

[Ikonoklast]

17. Lay off the Mountain Dew.

It's dissolving Unrec.

[Scootaloo]

6. Uh... Yeah?

But it's not "battery acid." It's citric acid. Put a chunk of meat in a glass of fresh-squeezed wholesome florida-grown OJ, and it'll eventually turn into a gnarly mass of meat-and-orange jelly. probably faster, since the OJ isn't sterile.

This doesn't mean Mountain Dew isn't disgusting, but don't get all hyperbolic.

[pintobean]

10. Pepsi products have an average PH of 2

That's what I was told at a local plant.

[Scootaloo]

18. Mountain Dew has a pH of 3.22

Which is higher (nominally) than an orange slice. It's actually less acidic than most soft drinks.

http://www.21stcenturydental.com/smith/pH_drinks.htm

[WI_DEM]

8. Well, there is another reason for drinking Mountain Dew!

[Initech]

9. Maybe it's the electrolytes.

[Scootaloo]

19. What are electrolytes?

[DefenseLawyer]

23. They are what plants crave. n/t

[Initech]

24. Brawndo has them.

[liberal N proud]

13. I have not tried Mt Dew but Coke will clean your battery terminals and dislove a nail

So I might tend to believe them.


Just think what that stuff is doing to our insides!

[snooper2]

20. It's also good for cleaning chrome bumpers LOL

[librechik]

25. ah THAT's why I never find any mouse carcasses in my mountain dew. n/t

[newspeak]

26. I have a few mormon friends that drink mountain dew in the morning

it replaces the cup of joe they can't have.