And this is why we love Mountain Dew

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/weird/Mou...74248.html

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.

That's...
awesome!

I'm gonna go buy some mountain dew RIGHT NOW.

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

I dont care, brb getting the dew.

Is it wrong to want to try this out?

B> A Mouse!

dafuq is this?

Is it wrong to want to try this out?

B> A Mouse!

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.

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.

!!
brb buying cat.
and mountain dew.
and a lab coat.

FOR SCIENCE!

!!
brb buying cat.
and mountain dew.
and a lab coat.

FOR SCIENCE!

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

Similar thing happened over here with a Monster energy drink.

http://www.king5.com/news/Man-sues-energ...20299.html

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.

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

When i look out there it makes me glad im not you!

dammit i wanna play portal now
brb moar science to do!

While this is somewhat gross, this could also be great for science.

Not sure whether I'd want to see a dead mouse inside my can or actually drink the jelly unknowingly.

Probably a good thing I gave up drinking Mt Dew years ago.

Similar thing happened over here with a Monster energy drink.

It's actually not an uncommon occurrence. I had to help a friend research precedent for this back in '95 when she had a similar misshap.
After that little library trip I've never drank from a can again. I always move it from can to a resealable container of my own so I can see exactly what I am going to be drinking and don't have any possibility for something else to sneak in before/after I begin.

Hurray for not drinking soda at all?

........

Brb buying some Dew


and a mouse.




SCIENCE

....I'm still going to drink it. It's soo gooooooodddd ;___;

........

Brb buying some Dew

and a mouse.

SCIENCE

you're rather late

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

15 months and it would still have skin and muscles and that.

However, try this. Add a coin into a glass of coke. I believe it's certain coins, depending on the country there's different metals involved. But nontheless. Do it before going to bed, and when you get back, the coin's dissolved. Oh, and don't go smart and drink it.

And that's just Coca-Cola.