While not as popular as its alcoholic counterparts on the Montana roadside, Mountain Dew still makes its presence felt. The can you see pictured is the most bizarre store-brand version I've seen: Mountain Maze. It doesn't sound refreshing; it just sounds confusing.
Day 110
An old standard
July 14th, 2010
I’d never heard of this soda, so I Googled it. It’s a generic brand sold at Albertson’s stores.
There seem to be quite a few Mountain Dew clones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_citrus_sodas
love the names of the generic versions of dew..mountain explosion and even moon mist in 3 liters?
Store brand soda names crack me up. My favorite is “Dr. Perky” (Dr. Pepper)
I brew my own “Dr. Perky” – Folgers in the AM. :) We used to have Albertsons here, but they vamoosed.
ohhhh thats a good one Candice.
Dr. Perky! Oh wow.. never heard that one. We have “Mr. Pibb” and “Dr. Thunder” all Dr. Pepper spin offs!
I like the ‘fractal’ looking lines of the dried grass.
Could this be…the proverbial switchgrass…that holds the answer to all of our problems…you know, biomass…ethanol???…maybe not…
We have Mt. Lion here in NC at the Food Lion stores. Their brand! Tastes pretty good too!
Yes, Mt. Lion is good, as is the Dollar General Mt. Explosion. I recently bought some Mountain Dew retro, made with real sugar instead of corn syrup and with a politically incorrect hillbilly on the label, like in the old days. I didn’t feel guilty drinking it.
The sugar is probably better for you than the corn syrup.
I remember when the cans had the hillbilly pictures on them. Are you sure it wasn’t an original can that had survived this long? Seems that stuff could survive just about anything!
I see the alboertson’s on the top of the can and it doesn’t look like the throwback cans – definately Albertsons spin
Pepsi brought back the “retro” Mountian Dew with real sugar this past year. My son loves it but so far we’ve only found it in the 20 oz. bottles. He says it’s much better than the corn syrup stuff.
Hey Dorinda,
They were selling it in 12 packs of 12 ounce cans here in Cali, along with Dr. Pepper and Pepsi. I purchased the latter two, but not the Dew. (Never really been a fan of the Dew.) The other two were pretty tasty, but still pretty close to the corn syrup stuff. I did a taste test, where one glass had sugar Pepsi, the other corn syrup Pepsi, and the third half and half. The person couldn’t tell the difference between the three!
Mountain Maze…is like Corn Soda? I’m lost…(get it) Maze…lost in the maze….
……sorry….had too
No…probably switchgrass too…biomass, ethanol…ahh, maybe not…
Wow, I live in Montana, shop at Albertsons and other stores–never saw a Mountain Maze. Maybe it wasn’t purchased here–rode in a car for miles and miles, drank, then tossed. Maybe its Canadian!
Canadian version would be Mountain frost, Ice beer, eh?
Ooooohhhhh…or should that be booooo…….
Taste the craze of Mountain Maze!
Mountain Maze as sold at Albertson’s Grocery Stores until recently. Now it sells Mountain Chill. Dr. Chill is the same as Dr. Pepper.