Diet Mountain Dew And Whiskey
Soft drinks were regional in the 1930s and the hartmans had difficulty in knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor preferably whiskey so the two men developed their own thats from wiki and you can read that it was produced to mix with whiskey.
Diet mountain dew and whiskey. Yet while mountain dew was created as a mixer for whiskey or as the name suggests moonshine it goes with just about anything. While mountain dew red was short lived it represented the beginning of a long term trend of mountain dew being produced in different flavor variations. If you really want to lean into the drink use. Diet pepsi or mt.
The hartman brothers developed mountain dew as a mixer. In 2001 a cherry flavor called code red debuted. Pepsi was interested albeit 35 years later when they bought mountain dew. Diet mountain dew is the fifth track off lana s debut album born to die the song was written back in 2008 in collaboration with mike daly who produced the first two demos of the song.
In season four of mad men the ad agency is tasked with developing a marketing plan for the soda offering suggestions for cocktails. The hartman brothers sought advice from coca cola about mountain dew but coke didn t help. Zesty mountain dew and whiskey come together in a refreshing low brow approximation of the classic cocktail. In the south rc cola was popular.
Not only was mountain dew invented for whiskey it s named after it too. Behold the lazy man s whiskey sour. Its product is currently expanding rapidly with new flavors baja blast code red livewire and many others being added in recent years. Whatever works with lemonade probably goes just fine with mountain dew too.
The name mountain dew was a slang term for moonshine and of course moonshine is a slang term. Diet mountain dew was introduced in 1988 followed by mountain dew red which was introduced and subsequently discontinued in 1988. Tried a small sample and it wasn t bad so i ended up drinking a mix of about 2 good. Mountain dew is one of america s most popular soft drinks finishing just behind coca cola classic pepsi cola and diet coke in sales in 2007.
According to the mountain dew website it began in the 1940s as a lemon lime drink used as a mixer for whiskey. Regular mountain dew is supposed to be lemon lime twist flavored.