Quote:Challenging a man's claim that he found a mouse in his Mountain Dew a while back, it's hard to say whether Pepsi Co. won or lost the battle with its defense in a small court. That defense? Not possible — Mountain Dew would have reduced that mouse to jelly by the time it was opened 15 months after bottling, according to the company's experts.

I think I speak for all humanity when I say, despite the fact we may have been able to deduce this from it's otherworldly glow, let's give a resounding: gross!

Pepsi's experts aside, could the Dew do this? Believe it or not, some independent sources are saying it could, pointing the finger at citric acid. Citric acid, which is found naturally in citrus fruits exists as a powder in its purified form, and is added to citrus-based soft drinks to give them their zing. It also means it lowers the pH of the drink and makes the drink highly acidic.

Durex Wrote:Is it wrong to want to try this out?

B> A Mouse!

Onion Knight Wrote:Get a cat. They'll bring you a plentiful supply of dead mice on your kitchen floor for you to dissolve in soft drinks, as well as birds, lizards, and other small creatures.

OT: Breaking news, acid dissolves biomass.

Durex Wrote:!!
brb buying cat.
and mountain dew.
and a lab coat.

FOR SCIENCE!

King5 News Wrote:Federal Way, Wash.-- A Federal Way man has filed a lawsuit against the maker of Monster Energy Drinks. He claims he found a dead mouse at the bottom of his can, and he has the lab work to prove it.

"Anytime anyone talks about monster, I just get that sick feeling in my stomach," says Vitaliy Sulzhik.

It happened March 20, 2010. Sulzhik remembers it like it was yesterday. He went into the Fred Meyer in Des Moines, and bought himself a Monster Energy Drink. When he finished drinking it, he didn't realize another monster would be at the bottom.

"I put it down and I felt it was still heavy. So I backwashed it and all this debris went into my mouth," says the 19 year old. "Then I looked in the can and I saw the tip of the tail and I vomited everywhere."

It was a dead mouse inside the can. His attorney sent the can to MDE Inc., a forensic and engineering laboratory in Seattle, which cut open the can. They conducted a series of forensic tests on behalf of his client, and Monster's insurance company.

X-rays and autopsies showed the mouse didn't suffer any trauma, like from a mouse trap, nor was it killed using poison. In other words, there were no signs the mouse was killed and then forced through the opening.

"You hear these wild stories out there. Sure, you're a little skeptical at first," says Reed Yurchak, Sulzhik's attorney. "But everything here has checked out."

Yurchak says Hansen Beverage Company is aware of the findings, but still refuses to believe his client.

When contacted by phone, the drink-maker declined to comment on the lawsuit.

Sulzhik hasn't drunk anything from a can since.

Eos Wrote: look at me still talking when there's science to do

Tikey Wrote:Similar thing happened over here with a Monster energy drink.

Untradeable Wrote:........

Brb buying some Dew

and a mouse.

SCIENCE

Luxeraph Wrote:...
So the same mouse in a water bottle would still be intact after 15 months of decomposition?