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Midwest To Play Guinea Pigs In Test Of Malt-Flavored Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew, long treated like the haggard, unemployed cousin of the big brand sodas, is about to try to go up-market with the test of a pricier, malt-flavored variety of the drink called “Mountain...
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I Want My Trans Fats Back: Consumerist Readers Speak Out About Recipe Changes
Last week, we asked you, the members of the Consumerist Hive Mind, what prepared food items you’ve abandoned or fallen out of love with due to a recipe or ingredient change. What we learned from...
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Mountain Dew Debacle Shows Why You Can't Let The Internet Play Mad Libs With...
UPDATE: Reps for Mountain Dew have sent a statement to Consumerist clarifying its involvement (or apparent lack thereof) in the disastrous promotion. “Dub the Dew,” a local market promotional campaign...
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Hold On To Your Cans, Diet Pepsi Devotees: Your Soda's Sweetener Is Getting...
You know what they say — if you don’t change, you die. Despite the positives of forward momentum, we’re willing to bet diehard Diet Pepsi drinkers might be a bit upset to know that the soda is changing...
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Coke & Pepsi Vending Machines Will Get Calorie Counts, Push Low-Calorie Drinks
(silent (e))Even though soda cans and bottles now feature large, clear calorie counts, the makers of the biggest brands of fizzy drinks have decided to go ahead and put calorie information on some of...
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Pepsi Vending Machine Thinks You’ll Be More Popular If You Can Hand Out...
(YouTube)Pepsi knows you’ve been struggling to convince your friends that you care about them after selfishly taking the last wing during last week’s game of whichever sport you were watching. And if...
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Polarizing Video Asks “What If Those Coca-Cola Bears Actually Drank A Lot Of...
A still from the polarizing videoFor years, Coca-Cola has aired ads featuring adorable animated polar bears that just love to drink the brown beverage. But a new video — created by the ad genius behind...
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Japan’s New “Pepsi Special” Claims It Can Reduce Fat So You Can Eat Crap, Be...
(Pepsi) Pepsi is trying to pull a move in Japan with a new drink called “Pepsi Special” that would probably not fly with consumer watchdogs over here in the U.S. The company is reportedly touting the...
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Pepsi-Chicken Lay’s Potato Chips Are Tastier Than They Sound, But Only Sold...
Now, even more chickeny.If there’s anything that people across the globe truly need and want, it’s more fizzy sugar water. And so PepsiCo is investing more money in getting the attention and the...
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Diet Pepsi Switches Up Its Sweetener Ever So Quietly
(athrog) Diet Pepsi has switched up its sweetener but it’s doing it ever so quietly and carefully, so as not to freak everyone out. The goal is to make sure that the soda will taste the way it’s...
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Doritos, Pepsi & Bud Light Join Forces To Form Huge Supermarket Display Voltron
Everything you could ever need — assuming you only drink Bud Light, Pepsi and eat Doritos.Sick of going separate sections of the supermarket to buy beer, soda and snacks? Then the folks at PepsiCo and...
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Pepsi Marinated Chicken Wings & 3 Other Potato Chip Flavors We’d Have To Be...
(Morton Fox)Sometimes it feels like every other country is having so much fun with their snacks and fast food while we’re just stuck with the ho-hum normal flavors of the West. Sour cream and...
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Pepsi To Replace Coke In Costco’s Beloved $1.50 Soda & Hot Dog Deal
(quaziefoto)For many Costco shoppers, a trip to the warehouse store isn’t complete without stopping by the lunch counter and plunking down $1.50 for a hot dog and a Coca-Cola beverage. It’s the same...
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Mountain Dew… Now For Breakfast
Don’t call it an energy drink, or a soda… it just is what it is.For people who think Taco Bell’s “Mtn Dew A.M.” blend of Mountain Dew and orange juice is just a little bit too natural for a breakfast...
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Group Calls For Limits On Sugar In Soft Drinks
(БРАТСТВО)The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which loves to ruin everyone’s day by reminding people of all the calories and fat in the foods we enjoy, are calling on the FDA to set a safe...
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How My Love Of Diet Pepsi Vanilla Almost Got Me Ejected From Walmart
(Paxton Holley) If our readership understands anything, its fanatical devotion to one product and an almost equally fanatical need to make stores follow their own policies. That is how Tom got in...
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Vanilla Mountain Dew, Strawberry Pepsi Made Possible By New Soda Fountains
Four years after Coca-Cola launched its Freestyle soda fountains that allow users to mix/match/blend/concoct whatever flavor monstrosities they want without the hassle of having to bounce from nozzle...
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From The Shameless To The Egregious, We Grade The Product Placements In 12...
Here is a photo of a print ad for that 2-hour Google ad you have to pay money to see at the theater.You’ve probably seen the 30-second TV ads promoting that new 2-hour commercial for Google starring...
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Appeals Court Hears Arguments On NYC’s Fizzling Big-Soda Ban
(Nabity Photos)It’s been three months since a judge tossed out New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces, calling the regulation “arbitrary and capricious.”...
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Is Brand Perception Tricking Our Brains Into Not Thinking About What We’re...
(Paxton Holley)Most of us have seen hidden-camera tricks where some unwitting subject raves about what they are eating because they have been told it’s a certain brand or from a well-regarded...
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