Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?

[Anonymous]

Marketing

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find it fascinating. What accounts for why this one particular drink holds such an appeal for this specific demographic?

Do you also wonder why African Americans like Kool-aid, fruit punch, and orange sofa?

Let’s leave furniture choices out of this

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In college, everyone slammed Mt. Dew around exam time. Even students from the Main Line, North Shore and Point Dume.

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My DH drank it in his 20's, but now switched to coffee for less sugar. He's from the Midwest.

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Anonymous wrote:The only people I know who like it are Mormon.

+1. Also addicted to diet coke.

What? The Mormons I know don’t drink caffeine.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only people I know who like it are Mormon.

+1. Also addicted to diet coke.

What? The Mormons I know don’t drink caffeine.

The Word of Wisdom prohibits "hot drinks." There has been a LOT of discussion about this within the LDS community,

The LDS Church website has clarified that this prohibition does not extend to caffeinated soft drinks.

SALT LAKE CITY - Maybe now, reporters, bloggers, outsiders and even many Mormons will accept that the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not forbid drinking cola.

The LDS church recently posted a statement on its website saying that "the church does not prohibit the use of caffeine" and that the faith's health-code reference to "hot drinks" "does not go beyond (tea and coffee)."

A day later, the website wording was slightly softened, saying only that "the church revelation spelling out health practices … does not mention the use of caffeine."

The same goes for the church's two-volume handbook, which LDS leaders use to guide their congregations. It says plainly that "the only official interpretation of 'hot drinks' … in the Word of Wisdom is the statement made by early church leaders that the term 'hot drinks' means tea and coffee."

https://www.chron.com/life/houston-belief/article/It-s-Official-Coke-and-Pepsi-are-OK-for-Mormons-3845672.php

[Anonymous]

"do the dew" marketing

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Anonymous wrote:Might also be a function of where the advertising dollars get spent.

You could also look at whether advertising of Colt 45 and menthol cigarettes was targeted at lower middle-class black areas while you’re at it.

[Anonymous]

Because it was marketed (e.g., nascar) to white, rural areas.

[Anonymous]

My guilty pleasure drink is actually diet Mountain Dew. I get made fun of all the time when my friends see me drinking it.

#noshame

[Anonymous]

It has more caffeine than Coke or Pepsi.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a decent number of Mountain Dew-drinking multimillionaires but I am from Silicon Valley.

Not a Silicon Valley multimillionaire but we are more than comfortable and my husband drinks this every morning. I wish he'd stop for health reasons, but I've be unsuccessful in this mission to date. He hates coffee and tolerates tea only when sick. I do not know anyone else personally who drinks it.

[Anonymous]

It’s full of bromine, so people suffer detox effects when they stop taking it. Plus it affects brain function.

Normal countries (where companies and lobbyists aren’t allowed so much influence over politics) banned it a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

I love mt dew- but I rarely drink soda anymore. When I do- I like to shake it up and slowly let the carbonation out. Then you just have that cold, flat, lemon lime goodness and don't have to deal with them pesky bubbles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s full of bromine, so people suffer detox effects when they stop taking it. Plus it affects brain function.

Normal countries (where companies and lobbyists aren’t allowed so much influence over politics) banned it a long time ago.

I had no idea. I just looked it up and this is true!
Brominated vegetable oil text: Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, acts as an emulsifier in soda and sports drinks, preventing the flavoring from separating and floating to the surface. The ingredient is banned more than 100 countries because it contains bromine, a chemical whose vapors can be corrosive or toxic.