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"Mtn" Dew

mtndew_sidebyside Mountain Dew has gone through a few logo changes since I first started drinking it, but this new one's downright weird. "Mtn" Dew? I can only assume that the new generation of Mountain Dew drinkers has an attention span of three letters.

As with the old Mountain Dew logo changes, it doesn't look like the drink itself has changed (anybody remember the "Same Dew, New View" ads?), as the ingredients on the back of both seem to suggest.

Then there's the issue of the new logo background. I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to represent, perhaps shards of glass or, dare I say it, the side of a steep mountain (maybe that's where the "oun-ai" went!), though one of the first things that came to mind was Spiders on Drugs: "When given a minute dose of LSD, the spider's web took on an unfamiliar, minimalist structure."

Diet M[oun]t[ai]n Dew, which I buy as my sugar intake would be several kilograms too high per day otherwise, was given a similar treatment. "0 Cal, 0 Carb, 0 Sug." I've heard the terms "zero-cal" and "zero-carb" before, but "zero-sug"? Leave it to Pepsi to find new shortened forms for words, because I've never heard of any "zero-sug" or even "low-sug" foods before. Live Writer, Microsoft Word, and Firefox all ensure me that "sug" is not a word.

I'm still trying to de-addict myself from caffeine; Mountain Dew is too expensive...

Print | posted on Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:01 AM | Filed Under [ Rants Photo ]

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Pepsi-Cola seems to be in the midst of giving all their products new looks. Make of them what you may:
www.underconsideration.com/.../...aled_sort_of.php

They seem to be leaving no stone unturned. I even saw a new package for Tropicana orange juice (owned by Pepsi, natch) at the supermarket the other day: It now looks like a generic European product, for lack of a better term.

The new "Mtn Dew" logo is actually something of a compromise between the old look and the initial design proposal for the new look. Not that that makes it any better: The jagged forms of the new label do seem more evocative of shards of glass than anything vaguely-refreshing to drink.

My favorite incarnation of the Mountain Dew can was probably the version used from 1997-99. I always wondered why it didn't last very long...
1/10/2009 12:11 PM | Andrew T.
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Yeah, I've seen the new Pepsi logo, and one of the guys at that chat said it looked like the SeaMonkey logo, which it does. Don't mean to get into a flame war but: Pepsi sucks. It's watered down garbage. I'd rather drink New Coke than that crap. And, yes I would have to agree I like that Mount Dew logo the best.
1/10/2009 1:37 PM | Dave
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The new bottle looks slightly smaller in the photo, is this just a trick of the eye?
I'm sure if they can save a few cc's and charge the same price, Mr.Pepsico would be happy!
1/11/2009 7:01 AM | Rev. Dr Wu Yi
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Rev. Dr., it certainly wouldn't surprise me if the "591mL" figure is now rounded up from 590.5 or something close. But if they actually did shrink the bottle in an honest attempt to use less plastic, while at the same time maintaining the proper volume (which I doubt would happen), I suppose it wouldn't be all that bad. It might just be the photo, though, because they look the same to me here on my desk.
1/11/2009 8:34 AM | Don_HH2K
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Don't know about the others, but it seems that Tropicana's new branding didn't exactly meet expectations for success. It lasted what, one month?
2/25/2009 3:20 PM | Andrew T.

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