Contents of Mt Dew - a strange brew

The funny thing about lawsuits.  They can be frivolous and a waste of time.  Two things come up from them:  always: the lawyers make $$, and sometimes: people reveal a truth we wouldn't otherwise be exposed to.

That brings us to soft drinks, specifically Mt Dew.  Even my son drinks this stuff.  ((He's 18 and if he gets a dollar in his pocket it turns into a bottle of Mt Dew... cannot be explained)).  Anyhoo, a kid is suing Pepsi Co because he "found a dead mouse in his can of Mt Dew" ((anyone remember the movie Strange Brew??)).  Pepsi Co rebuked (paraphrased - and sorry, gross!!) "not a chance, our beverage is so corrosive to carbon based life form that a mouse would've been liquified by the time he opened the can and he'd just drink it down".

This is Pepsi admitting that their product dissolves flesh and fur, etc.  Does this give a tiny indicator to what we're calling sustenance these days?  Maybe I just forgot my dose of crazy pills today.

Story here:

Mountain Dew Mouse Story Goes Viral

Categories: The No-Way, Legal by MARK MEMMOTT

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No, he wasn't going extreme, Pepsi says.

We thought the World Wide Web was supposed to make information fly.

But now we have to question that notion.

It's taken a year and a half for us to hear that Pepsi is defending itself against a lawsuit claiming that a mouse was found in a can of Mountain Dew by saying that the furry little creature couldn't have been there because:

"The body would have transformed into a 'jelly-like' substance' " by the acid in the soda, as The Record of Madison/St. Clair, Wis., reported way back in July 2010.

So the mouse that the plaintiff claimed to have found, which was examined afterward, couldn't have been in the can, Pepsi says.

The Record, which has been dutifully following this important matter, says it wasn't until this week that the rest of us in the news media caught on to the Mountain Dew mouse story and Pepsi's defense. Apparently, a late February Record story about some changes in the Pepsi legal team must have tripped off some search engine algorithm and that's led to "international headlines."

We here at The Two-Way apologize for our lateness to this story. Perhaps we tired and needed an energy boost. Like, say, from a highly caffeinated drink.

Or, maybe not.