Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 09:54     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
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
Post 05/18/2020 09:52     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
Because it was marketed (e.g., nascar) to white, rural areas.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 08:34     Subject: Re:Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
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
Post 05/18/2020 08:28     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
"do the dew" marketing
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 08:25     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
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
Post 05/18/2020 08:13     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
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.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 08:07     Subject: Re:Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
My DH drank it in his 20's, but now switched to coffee for less sugar. He's from the Midwest.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 08:02     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
In college, everyone slammed Mt. Dew around exam time. Even students from the Main Line, North Shore and Point Dume.
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 05:50     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
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
Anonymous
Post 05/18/2020 05:48     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
Marketing
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2020 18:26     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
My dad loves it and he's a cardiologist! he doesn't drink it for the caffeine, he just thinks it tastes good. He also likes the blue one.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2020 17:27     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
Anonymous wrote:Its from Tennessee so its popular in appalachia.


Hey fellow Appalachian/Tennessean! There are dozens of us in the DMV—DOZENS. And we don’t take too kindly to how we are represented as being poor and stupid. Amirite?
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2020 17:21     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
Anonymous wrote:The only people I know who like it are Mormon.


+1. Also addicted to diet coke.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2020 16:00     Subject: Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
I know a decent number of Mountain Dew-drinking multimillionaires but I am from Silicon Valley.
Anonymous
Post 05/17/2020 15:59     Subject: Re:Why do white working class people like Mt. Dew?
Why do upper middle class white people like eating salads?