Mountain Blue

November 10, 2014 12:52 PM

After the recent move of putting its Frito chips in its Taco Bell burritos, PepsiCo has made another attempt at cross-pollination of its various product divisions. Since their merger into PepsiCo in the '60s, Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay mostly kept their business lines separate, one focusing on drinks and the other focusing on what we shall generously refer to as 'foods'. In more recent years, though, PepsiCo has also begun pushing various Dorito products into its Taco Bell selection, and even gave Taco Bell its own personal flavor of Mountain Dew (did you know there's an entire wiki just for Mountain Dew? neither did I! (appropriately for this post, there is also a Mountain Dew Blue)). Anyway, in its most recently announced monstrosity, PepsiCo is testing a Dorito-flavored version of Mountain Dew. Needless to say, reactions are mixed. Also mixed are home-made mad-science Dorito/Mountain Dew experimentations. (don't forget to turn on the audio)
posted by Evilspork (98 comments total)

years from now amidst the ashes of human civilization the survivors will look back upon this moment and weep
posted by poffin boffin at 12:55 PM on November 10, 2014 [18 favorites]

Related: There is also now a Frito Pizza available at Papa Johns.
posted by I am the Walrus at 12:57 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Mountito Doridew?
posted by Floydd at 12:57 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'd try it. Of course I'm typing this from a rest area on the jersey turnpike so I may be somewhat addled.
posted by jonmc at 12:58 PM on November 10, 2014 [12 favorites]

This should save space at the table when playing D&D.
posted by charred husk at 12:59 PM on November 10, 2014 [22 favorites]

Anyone but me find it hilarious that a beverage with the lovely, bucolic name "Mountain Dew" is now marketed as fuel for EXTREME! sports?
posted by davebush at 12:59 PM on November 10, 2014 [7 favorites]

Mountain Dew is oldtimey slang for moonshine.
posted by entropicamericana at 1:00 PM on November 10, 2014 [20 favorites]

years from now amidst the ashes of human civilization the survivors will look back upon this moment and weep - poffin boffin

As God as my witness, I'm standing amidst the ashes of human civilization and weeping right now
posted by surazal at 1:01 PM on November 10, 2014 [17 favorites]

years from now amidst the ashes of human civilization the survivors will look back upon this moment and weep

It's sensible to weep when you look upon the pinnacle of human civilization and see how far you've fallen...
posted by Sangermaine at 1:02 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

Oh Come on down the mountain Katy Daley
Come on down the mountain Katy do
Can't you hear us calling Katy Daley
We want to drink your good old mountain dew

Wake up and pay attention Katy Daley
For I'm the judge that's gonna sentence you
All the boys in court have drunk your whiskey
To tell the truth I like a little too
posted by winna at 1:03 PM on November 10, 2014 [4 favorites]

Tastes like orange when you're drinking it, but leaves a Dorritos after-taste?

And they said Alchemy wasn't real.
posted by oddman at 1:03 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

I never really cared much for Mountain Dew proper and I don't do sugary drinks anymore, but I loved that Night Elf flavored version they released years ago. Also, I still grab a Code Red once a year and enjoy flashbacks of being on the front lines of Help Desk for that particular virus outbreak.
posted by charred husk at 1:05 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

i'm picturing a Mt Dewtini with crushed dorite on the rim of the glass and I'm upset about it.
posted by poffin boffin at 1:06 PM on November 10, 2014 [22 favorites]

I'm at the Mountain Dew (What?) I'm at the Taco Bell (What?)
I'm at the combination Mountain Dew and Taco Bell.
posted by gwint at 1:07 PM on November 10, 2014 [13 favorites]

Blegh! Oh, jeez! I'll take a crab juice.
posted by dirtdirt at 1:08 PM on November 10, 2014 [6 favorites]

Dewrito cupcakes.
posted by empath at 1:09 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

The Verge's headline says it better than I ever could.
posted by ckape at 1:09 PM on November 10, 2014 [12 favorites]

I'm buying two 12 packs of cans the instant this comes out.

Then I'm making one of those beer can hats.

But, you know, a fedora.
posted by emptythought at 1:11 PM on November 10, 2014 [9 favorites]

Soylent Green is made out of my teenage cousin's mad-science Dorito/Mountain Dew experimentations
posted by swoopstake at 1:11 PM on November 10, 2014

Related: There is also now a Frito Pizza available at Papa Johns.

When I saw the commercial for this yesterday, after the dry-heave reaction, all I could think was: do people not know they can buy things at the grocery store and put them on top of their pizza themselves?

Dear Peyton Manning,

I already have Fritos at home, just give me a cheese pizza, thank you.
posted by GrapeApiary at 1:11 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

I actually like the Baja Mountain Dew. Goes well with a crunchwrap in the morning.
posted by asperity at 1:11 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

Also, I would drink the hell out of a lemon ginger soda, especially if they take the unthinkable risk of not sweetening it. And I don't mean they should use sugar substitutes, because those are abominations.
posted by asperity at 1:16 PM on November 10, 2014 [6 favorites]

In other news, the KFC near my office just turned into this.


I don't even know what is happening anymore.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 1:17 PM on November 10, 2014 [4 favorites]

I cannot wait to review this for my horrible food blog.
posted by Twain Device at 1:18 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

How will this pair with a failure pile in a sadness bowl, good sir?
posted by entropicamericana at 1:19 PM on November 10, 2014 [12 favorites]

Also, if your liquor's too red, it'll swell up your head...
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 1:19 PM on November 10, 2014

When you guys were little, did you have that joke about "mountain dew" being the sweat between Dolly Parton's boobies? Or was that a regional (perhaps neighborhood) thing?

Third grade was pretty awesome
posted by jbickers at 1:22 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

i'm picturing a Mt Dewtini with crushed dorite on the rim of the glass and I'm upset about it.

"Oh barkeep, a round of Ethics in Game Journalisms for the table, please."
posted by zombieflanders at 1:23 PM on November 10, 2014 [37 favorites]

Doriticide
posted by blue_beetle at 1:24 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

How will this pair with a failure pile in a sadness bowl, good sir?

You know what, I love those fuckin bowls.
posted by showbiz_liz at 1:27 PM on November 10, 2014 [4 favorites]

From the reactions are mixed link:

‘We are always testing out new flavors of Mountain Dew, and giving our fans a voice in helping decide on the next new product has always been important to us,’ a spokeswoman told The Huffington Post in a statement.

MORE: Satanist ‘cannibal’ painted ‘Evil will triumph’ on house where victims were killed

Yep, sounds about right
posted by showbiz_liz at 1:28 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

also the drunk nakey man on the tube
posted by poffin boffin at 1:28 PM on November 10, 2014

Can't be any worse than that shit they're trying to pass off at Breakfast at TBell.
posted by symbioid at 1:28 PM on November 10, 2014

i mean how did he even pay

where was he keeping his oyster card
posted by poffin boffin at 1:29 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

PepsiCo spun off Taco Bell parent Yum more than 17 years ago. It's still an important strategic partnership, but they're independent companies without cross-ownership. Despite (because?) the dubious collaborations of late, many analysts think that PepsiCo should spin off Frito-Lay as well.
posted by MattD at 1:34 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

The line "...a Dorito-flavored version of Mountain Dew," really did make me throw up in my mouth a little just now. Good Lord.

Off to get something to wash the taste of every bad thing from my mouth.
posted by Pecinpah at 1:35 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Now - if they release Test Flavor 855 (aka: Spicy Street Taco) in Dew form, I may just consider it...
posted by symbioid at 1:39 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

I rather like Baja Blast (delightful citrus soda, more tart than normal Dew, yadda yadda), but the sangria flavor just confuses me. I've never thought "sangria is missing a certain fizz and soda sweetness." I tried it, and I still don't see that as a missing element to sangria. (Now I want sangria.)
posted by filthy light thief at 1:42 PM on November 10, 2014

They call it that good old mountain dew,
And them that refuse it are few.
I'll hush up my mug if you'll fill up my jug
With that good old mountain dew.
posted by Chrysostom at 1:44 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

Finally, a cool ranch liquid that I can drink without the whole restaurant gawking at me!
I can't wait to see what the Irish think of it.
posted by blueberry at 1:47 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

...do people not know they can buy things at the grocery store and put them on top of their pizza themselves?

I've been crushing Fritos into my liverwurst sandwiches since I was 6, but did PepsiCo/Fritolay/YUM Brands call me? Hell no.
posted by JoeZydeco at 1:52 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

U.S. Mefites : feel free, here or by memail, to name your price or traded goods or services to send a bottle of this to me in the uk.
posted by ominous_paws at 2:02 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

I want to be appalled by a Dorito-flavored beverage, I really do, but I'd have to own the fact that being appalled at a Dorito-flavored beverage would make me a hypocrite.

See, where I grew up, Fritos were a perfectly acceptable salad ingredient. I don't think I went to a single potluck in Texas in the '70s and '80s that didn't have at least one Frito salad on the table. Why more than one? Because the supporting ingredients in a Frito salad are about as divisive as the beans/no beans in chili debate. The one true Frito salad is made with Ranch Style Beans®. But, I tell you what, there are people who pervert a Frito salad by using freaking kidney beans or, I shit you not, blackeyed peas. Those people are clearly heathens, yet they continued to show up at church potlucks with their shameful commie Frito salads.

A chip-flavored soda isn't too much of a stretch for the worldview I was born into, I is guess what I'm saying.
posted by mudpuppie at 2:03 PM on November 10, 2014 [4 favorites]

The Lemon Ginger and Mango Habanero flavors sound a lot better, though, if slightly less outré. If you've ever gotten into Mexican snacks, sour-sweet fruit mixed with spicy chiles is a pretty common thing, like, you dice papaya, melon, watermelon and pineapple or whatever, and you pour powdered chile and lime over it. It's surprisingly refreshing.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:06 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

...about as divisive as the beans/no beans in chili...

I am neither a chili nor a bean person, but I thought one of the defining features of chili was having beans in it.
posted by Evilspork at 2:07 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Metafilter: Shameful commie Frito salads.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:07 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

asperity: I actually like the Baja Mountain Dew. Goes well with a crunchwrap in the morning.

...

>crunchwrap
>morning

Wut.

Who eats those in the morning? Unless you mean like, 2am. Because i've jokingly called them crunkwraps, since no one i know eats them before like midnight(or after like 5am). They're like the ultimate drunk food, as far as fast food drive throughs go.
posted by emptythought at 2:09 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

I am neither a chili nor a bean person, but I thought one of the defining features of chili was having beans in it.

You, sir/madam, have no idea what you just did.
posted by mudpuppie at 2:09 PM on November 10, 2014 [29 favorites]

ominous_paws: U.S. Mefites : feel free, here or by memail, to name your price or traded goods or services to send me a bottle of this to me in the uk.

My price is a Betamax video of Queen Elizabeth defecating into a hat.
posted by dr_dank at 2:13 PM on November 10, 2014 [16 favorites]

U.S. Mefites : feel free, here or by memail, to name your price or traded goods or services to send a bottle of this to me in the uk.

I assure, if we could, we'd send the UK *all* of the bottles. But I imagine after the revolutionary war there was some sort of treaty enacted that prevented this sort of thing (also, chemical warfare is pretty much not allowed anymore).
posted by el io at 2:16 PM on November 10, 2014 [10 favorites]

You, sir/madam, have no idea what you just did.

Au contraire.
posted by Evilspork at 2:16 PM on November 10, 2014 [4 favorites]

I find this request insulting and quite frankly disgusting. Betamax, man? Have you quite lost your mind?
posted by ominous_paws at 2:16 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

I hope they make a diet version of this that is just loaded with aspartame because that way at least you'd get fibromyalgia from it.
posted by turbid dahlia at 2:19 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

If this flavor combination works I humbly suggest the following.

Peanut flavored Dr pepper
Bean dip and frito flavored Pepsi
Pork rind flavored RC Cola
M&m flavored Coke
posted by vuron at 2:23 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

Yes
Maybe
Yes
Yes
posted by ominous_paws at 2:28 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

Count me as yet another person who actually gagged upon reading the words "Dorito-flavored Mountain Dew." Humanity should really remember that just because we can do something, doesn't mean we should.
posted by yasaman at 2:30 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

"We've secretly replaced the new product team at PepsiCo with the editorial staff of High Times magazine... Let's see if consumers can tell the difference."
posted by Daily Alice at 2:31 PM on November 10, 2014 [25 favorites]

Oh all you people gagging from up on your high horses. The air must be so pure up there. Well, from where I sit, down here in the mud, I think Dorito flavored Mountain Dew will pair nicely with my KFC Double Down.
posted by Literaryhero at 2:37 PM on November 10, 2014 [6 favorites]

M&m flavored Coke

The Tootsie Roll thread is that-a-way.
posted by en forme de poire at 2:40 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

Hey guys I live under a flight path and four kinda foreboding guys on horses just galloped over heading in the direction of America looks like they wanted a word
posted by um at 2:40 PM on November 10, 2014 [6 favorites]

Yeah, I want to see Mtn Dew flavored Doritos and Doritos flavored Mtn Dew.

But I also pretty much want to see the world burn, so your mileage (and emergency bathroom usage!) may vary.
posted by loquacious at 2:42 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

How soon you people forget Jones Turkey & Gravy soda.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 3:03 PM on November 10, 2014 [4 favorites]

One correction: Taco Bell is not part of PepsiCo (any more). It is part of Yum brands, which Pepsi spun off back in 1997.
posted by megatherium at 3:16 PM on November 10, 2014

Hopefully they make a soda that tastes like Doritos The Quest (the 2008 special edition chips that tasted like... Mountain Dew).
posted by Homeboy Trouble at 3:33 PM on November 10, 2014

emptythought: "asperity: I actually like the Baja Mountain Dew. Goes well with a crunchwrap in the morning.
...
>crunchwrap
>morning
Wut.
Who eats those in the morning? "

'member what I said upthread about TBell breakfast?

AM Crunchwrap.
posted by symbioid at 3:45 PM on November 10, 2014

In other news, the KFC near my office just turned into this.

KFC has been on this crazy campaign trying to get people to forget that 'F' is for Fried for at least a decade.
posted by straight at 4:17 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Count me a fan of Baja Blast. I wish I could get a (diet) version of it in stores, I really do.

Mountain Dew is oldtimey slang for moonshine.

I'm old enough to remember when they had a hillbilly mascot. (In some versions, the cork was popping out of his jug, in others, he was apparently protecting his still from the revenooers with a shotgun.) In any case, the phrase actually predates Prohibition and there's an Irish folk song, The Rare Old Mountain Dew, referring to Irish whisky, "the rare old stuff that's made near Galway Bay."

Now learned men as use the pen
Have writ' the praises high
Of the rare poteen from Ireland green
Distilled from wheat and rye
Away with your pills, it'll cure all ills
Be ye pagan, Christian, or Jew
So take off your coat and grease your throat
With a bucket of the mountain dew.

Anyhoo.

now marketed as fuel for EXTREME! sports?

There was a distinct phase in MD's advertising history, say mid 80s, where they dropped the hillbilly (note, this was well before Jeff Foxworthy rehabilitated the term redneck) and then realized one of their most important demographics was young males 18-24, or some such. Marketing pivot commenced briskly.
posted by dhartung at 4:28 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Up until about a month ago, I drank a can of Mountain Dew Livewire (orange flavored dew) almost every morning for about ten years. I need caffeine in the morning but I can't stand drinking anything hot at that time of the day. Livewire almost certainly has traces of methamphetamine or some other extremely addictive substance in it. (Not really, but it seems like it does.)

Doritos flavored mountain dew sounds really gross, but it's just another one of those crazy flavor combinations designed to fail in and of itself while generating as much buzz as possible in the process.
posted by double block and bleed at 4:44 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Mountain Dew - Doc Watson, Clint Howard and Fred Price
posted by bukvich at 4:53 PM on November 10, 2014

True story: Mountain Dew had to pay royalties to the family of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who wrote that song (everyone thinks it's a folk song).

A man of many talents he was.
posted by spitbull at 6:04 PM on November 10, 2014

Coincidentally, while I am reading this thread, Ms. nubs is sitting nearby reading "Age of Persuasion: How Marketing Ate Our Culture".

I leave the rest as an exercise for the reader.
posted by nubs at 6:08 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Who eats those in the morning?

Eh, the staff at my local Taco Bell is alarmingly cheerful at 8 am, and the steak crunchwrap's really not a lot worse than breakfast burritos available elsewhere. Plus, it's crunchy. And I can drink Baja Dew with it. (Since the Taco Bell never seems to actually have any coffee available no matter what their menu advertises, and eventually I just gave up and learned to like soda with breakfast. But only in that specific circumstance.)

tl;dr: Me. I eat those in the morning.
posted by asperity at 6:22 PM on November 10, 2014 [2 favorites]

vuron: M&m flavored Coke

This reminds me of coke blak, which had a decidedly chocolatey taste, didn't really taste like coffee at all, and was actually quite good. It was more like dark chocolate coke.

And we all know dark chocolate m&m's are inherently superior.

symbioid: 'member what I said upthread about TBell breakfast?

AM Crunchwrap.

Wow, they really dropped the ball here by not not doing some kind of huevos rancheros crunchwrap. Like seriously, they're not going to mexican cuisine that breakfast wrap up at all? hash brows? really? where's the beans. Where's the guacamole. C'mon guys, jack in the box is kicking your lazy asses all over again.
posted by emptythought at 6:27 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

I'm jealous - all we have in Japan are green Christmas tree-shaped Doritos, flavored with creamy corn stew.

Well, at least we have strawberry milk-flavored pink Pepsi to wash them down.
posted by Umami Dearest at 6:52 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

Basically they should come at this from both ends and also have Mountain Dew flavored tacos. And Doritos Locos Taco flavored Mountain Dew. And so forth, until, eventually, Taco Bell just serves hot, thick, sweet, salty, fatty, chunky, cheese gravy, in 64 oz cups. Mm!
posted by dirtdirt at 6:57 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

True story: Mountain Dew had to pay royalties to the family of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who wrote that song (everyone thinks it's a folk song).

Another true story: It was my high school's fight song. I don't know why. When played by the high school band it doesn't sound like an ode to bootlegging, but it is still a very odd choice.
posted by mudpuppie at 7:03 PM on November 10, 2014

Is anybody going to make a post about those upcoming Pizza Hut changes?

This seems like it might be the right place to ask.
posted by box at 7:18 PM on November 10, 2014

The row of tabs I had open by the bottom of this thread looked like a sort of portfolio of the american obesity epidemic.
posted by batfish at 7:41 PM on November 10, 2014 [4 favorites]

Dewitos: putting the 'ew' in Mountain Dew since 2014.
posted by daniel_charms at 8:47 PM on November 10, 2014 [3 favorites]

Strangely, while "Dorito flavored Mountain Dew" sounds revolting, I would love some "Mountain Dew flavored Doritos".
posted by Bugbread at 8:50 PM on November 10, 2014

GUYS. Dorito-flavored citrus drink was a recurring lunch for a whole year when I had braces in middle school. I would lick my Cool Ranch Doritos to get the flavor, but then discard the chip (too painful to eat after I got my braces tightened) and then drink my Capri-Sun lemonade.
posted by spamandkimchi at 8:55 PM on November 10, 2014

Dorito Dew.

My stomach just curled up against my ribcage. Is Fourth Meal Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the DSM-V?
posted by krinklyfig at 10:55 PM on November 10, 2014

Please tell me none of these horrid... things... are certified kosher. Otherwise I will know the O.U. has gone over to the sitra acha for sure.
posted by Dreidl at 11:48 PM on November 10, 2014 [1 favorite]

True story: Mountain Dew had to pay royalties to the family of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who wrote that song (everyone thinks it's a folk song).

"That Rare Auld Mountain Dew" is an Irish folksong. About Irish whisky.

Lunsford apparently recorded a song called "Good Old Mountain Dew", about American moonshiners, with scholars uncertain whether it is directly connected to the Irish song. It does appear that Pepsi utilized Lunsford's song as a jingle at one point for which they would have paid royalties, but I sincerely doubt they owe him anything for the name. (Cf: An 1832 magazine story set in Scotland deals with "The Mountain-Dew Men".)
posted by dhartung at 1:10 AM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

Cel-Ray.
posted by sonascope at 3:42 AM on November 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

There was a distinct phase in MD's advertising history, say mid 80s, where they dropped the hillbilly (note, this was well before Jeff Foxworthy rehabilitated the term redneck) and then realized one of their most important demographics was young males 18-24

I distinctly remember a transitional phase where they were showing teens in cutoffs tearing around in four wheel drive pickups and doing flips off rope swings into swimming holes.
posted by Ham Snadwich at 7:20 AM on November 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

Downfall of civilization? Nonsense. In the future, all beverages are Mountain Dewrito.
posted by Monochrome at 1:11 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

All the new Taco Bell offerings seem pretty clearly pitched toward the newly decriminalized pot market - am I wrong?
posted by latkes at 1:22 PM on November 11, 2014 [2 favorites]

All Taco Bell offerings have always been aimed at stoners, they're just being more blatant about it now.

It's like those weird taquito things at 7-11. Nobody in their right--as in, sober--mind would ever eat them. But at 3am when you're stoned and/or drunk those crunchy tubes of fat and miscellaneous meat squeezings are fantastic.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 1:52 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

All the new Taco Bell offerings seem pretty clearly pitched toward the newly decriminalized pot market - am I wrong?

Watch this and tell me decriminalized pot hasn't effected ALL fast food advertising.
posted by emptythought at 2:44 PM on November 11, 2014 [8 favorites]

Dorito-flavored Mountain Dew? That just sounds disgusting. I'll pass!

I love Baja Blast Mountain Dew. They finally released a diet version of that flavor earlier this year, but discontinued it recently. Boooooo!
posted by SisterHavana at 3:05 PM on November 11, 2014

I saw that spoon hands ad at work one day and I was totally dumbfounded. I just stopped dead in the middle of the hospital ward and I was like, "What the FUCK?!"
posted by latkes at 3:08 PM on November 11, 2014 [1 favorite]

In the world of "what the hell were they thinking," Rockstar made a horchata-flavored energy drink, which includes milk. Somehow, what I consider to be a the nut or rice milk drink due to rice-based horchata being common in the US, includes cow milk, perhaps because Rockstar is taking its influence from Nicaragua, Honduras, Puerto Rico, or Venezuela, where cow milk is an ingredient in regional versions of horchata.
posted by filthy light thief at 8:41 AM on November 13, 2014

In the world of "what the hell were they thinking," Rockstar made a horchata-flavored energy drink

They were thinking: "We need to sell more energy drinks to immigrants." It actually looks decent. I love horchata. And pinolillo.
posted by empath at 8:52 AM on November 13, 2014

I seem to be late to this party. Hope there's still some Dewitos left to try.
I'm for it, although if I like it (and I don't see why I wouldn't), I hope they make Diet Dewitos.

I also hope Elmer Fudd is the new spokesperson.
posted by MtDewd at 9:46 AM on November 13, 2014 [1 favorite]

DA WABBIT DWANK DA BUKKIT DA WABBIT DWANK DA BUKKIT (*whispered tones* of Dewitos, heheheheheh)
posted by symbioid at 10:47 AM on November 13, 2014

Dhartung, yes I think they licensed the song in early advertising.

Like all folk songs, it belonged to no one until someone wrote it down. That's how American music became intellectual property.
posted by spitbull at 6:32 PM on November 16, 2014 [1 favorite]

It actually looks decent. I love horchata. And pinolillo.

Pinolillo sounds delicious, thanks for that information.

And the drink was Rockstar Horchata was weird. It was definitely a dairy drink, creamier than the rice-based horchata I'm used to. And there was a mild after-taste, dissimilar to most energy drinks I've had so far, but it was still an odd flavor. Not great, but not as strong as the energy drinks I've had before. I won't buy it again, unless I find myself wandering by the local slowly closing Super K Mart, where the store is now down to a quarter of its footprint, but there's a LOT of Rockstar Hortchata left in the cold cases, on sale a bit from the usual cost.
posted by filthy light thief at 12:44 PM on November 24, 2014