Couple are furious when told they’re not allowed to buy 552 CANS of Mountain Dew

Dew the Diabetes!

Love the cute matching his/hers plus-size sweat ensembles!

FUCK yer cousin!

FUCK yer cousin!

They weren't even prepping for a quarantine, this is their weekly supply

He's got the hair for when he goes all Mad Max

They were buying it for an old folk's home.

Poor old folk now won't have anything to drink.

Why are Americans so obsessed with Mountain Dew and what is it exactly? Is it a soda? Is it a canned juice?

They were filmed complaining to an employee that they were purposely misinformed about being allowed to return and complete their purchase of 23 cases - a whopping total 552 cans.

'A straight up lie. What a liar!' the man shouted. 'You're such a liar. ... You just told me right now that I could. He subsequently pushed the cart away before the woman stopped him and alerted him that they were allowed to take only two of the four Mountain Dew cases.

Mountain Dew has “all of the sugar and all of the caffeine.” It was like a vintage Redbull. My old boyfriend was an amazing athlete, had a huge amount of energy, and was always bouncing off the walls. He absolutely adored Mountain Dew.

They changed the formula from the 80s.

They used real sugar and had some fruit juice. Now it's just high fructose corn syrup and chemical flavors. 😝

It’s the socialism, I tell you!

Happy now, libtards?

[quote]Why are Americans so obsessed with Mountain Dew and what is it exactly? Is it a soda? Is it a canned juice?

It's not 'Americans' as a whole. Certain regions of the country consume vast amounts of the stuff as a form of self-medicating - it has both more sugar and more caffeine than other sodas. There was a TV documentary about Appalachia several years ago that goes into why it's so popular in certain areas. Skip to around 1:05:

It tastes terrible.

Only poors drink it.

Class signifier

The other morning, my local Krogers' PA system announced a one gallon/one carton limit on water and soft drinks, cautioning that customers with too much would be turned away. The aisle was empty by 8am.

It's gross. Kind of a lemon-lime soda, but bitter and with caffeine.

I tried one once when I was 9 or 10. Even back then, I couldn't stand to waste food, but I took a couple sips of it and dumped it. I'd say the flavor is saliva adjacent.

I think it’s disgusting equivalent to drinking Windex but to each his own. A friend of mine loves MD. She is always going on about her homemade “healthy” version with watermelon juice and some other ingredients.

Mountain Dew has a distinct color, sort of like fluorescent urine. It predates Gatorade.

One of the commenters says that the guy's haircut shows them to be "libs."

Um, sure.

Krogers only lets you buy 550 cans, that's why.

Do NOT get between a hillbilly and his/her Mountain Dew!

One of my friends is a dentist in East Tennessee. He claims there is a condition called ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’ caused from drinking copious amounts of Mountain Dew. All the sugar accelerates tooth decay.

You know things have gone to hell when farm animals are venturing into town to buy food.

[quote] Why are Americans so obsessed with Mountain Dew

We’re now. In fact the stereotype is that it’s the worst drink on the planet that no one indulges in.

Addiction is a very sad thing.

Why are assholes still hoarding? I hate these hoarding bastards. I am suppose to crowd the local Publix at 7AM...just to get a roll of toilet paper. Fuck hoarders, there is no need.

That uppity negress laying down the law was the tipping point.

Joan Crawford did a commercial for the Dew so it can't be but so bad.

This is one of the most American examples of the response to this crisis. I’m getting mine and you can’t tell me otherwise. Even if mine is something that will hurt your health. And the physical specimens and matching ensembles are the icing on the cake.

I want to be the FILLING in that human pie. HOT COUPLE!!!!

They can mount me both ways while I drink the DEW OF THE MOUNTAIN while hanging on Daddy's Sausage Curl! (The one on his head)

OP, Why'd you have to give me hot pants this early in the day?

Very very ugly and nasty white trash. Human garbage yuck 🤢

They are selfish, unattractive people and should just be shot dead

Funny, I bought 6 24 can cases of Diet Pepsi yesterday at a local Mariano's (subsidiary of Kroger) with no problems.

Ye haaaaawwwwwww! Git dat dang dew.

They’re going to have to switch to Ale-8. Nobody likes taking. a step down the social ladder.

Kroger has almost as many “interesting” customers as Walmart.

God bless, r28.

Why didn't they ask to speak with the manager?

Now running....

They look like the kind of people who rape their pets.

White trash is white trash is white trash...

My sister said she observed one woman loading her cart with packs and packs of ground.beef. She took every one.

Stores need to assert customer purchase limits if they cannot replinish an item near immediately.

Hoarding fresh meat is worse than the TP panic hoarding.

Mt. Dew has vegetable oil in it

This hoarding problem could have easily been solved by putting a limit on all items to 2. My local Trader Joes did that and there was plenty of stock. Everyone was calm and friendly.

[quote]He claims there is a condition called ‘Mountain Dew Mouth’ caused from drinking copious amounts of Mountain Dew.

No doubt there's a corresponding "Mountain Dew Belly."

I wonder if they’ll murder-suicide when they start going through Mountain Dee withdrawal. I wonder if Mountain Dee Withdrawal is a thing?

The coronavirus has turned Americans into Chinese tourists.

R46- Its Mountain Dew, mothafucka!!!

Now git 'er done!!!!

Mountain Dew is a decidedly downmarket product. Fresca, on the other hand, is the soda of urbane sophisticates.

Years ago, while I rarely drank soda, I often used to select Mountain Dew. Then, I went nuts drinking Diet Coke - upwards of 6-8 cans a day while sitting at my desk working, plus glasses at lunch and dinner. I always had an open can sitting next to me.

I quit drinking all sodas years ago and have felt much better since.

I drink mostly water and coffee now - and I'm not giving up coffee.

I assume that they were purchasing the Diet Mountain Dew. Am I right?

I know an Ivy-educated NY doctor (and a professor) who drinks this shit. Don't assume it's just hick trash. I was shocked when I first saw her drinking it.

Mountain Dew is very low-class. Only white trash drink it.

[quote] My local Trader Joes did that and there was plenty of stock. Everyone was calm and friendly.

Trader Joes caters to upper middle-class whites. That's why it was so calm and friendly. It's not a chain were the trashiest dregs of society shop.

Soup..canned meat....rice....I get it. Who the fuck cares if they stock pile Mountain Dew? I mean, who,drinks that shit anyway?

They looked exactly alike from the back I had to read the captions to determine which was the woman and which was the man.

I wonder if they were hauled to Kroger on a flat bed trailer?

I've been doing online ordering (for store pickup or delivery) and EVERY item has a limit of two. Makes sense to me.

How much is "two" of dirt?

Please don't tell me these two wastes of oxygen have reproduced.

PLEASE PLEASE have them both sterilized asap!...

[quote]Why are Americans so obsessed with Mountain Dew and what is it exactly? Is it a soda? Is it a canned juice?

Southern white people love either Mountain Dew or Dr. Pepper (Diet Dr. Pepper)

Refined white ladies like Diet Coke

Southern black people tend to be either Pepsi drinkers or fruit flavored soda drinkers.

Diet Coke is also popular with gay men.

Yahoo, it’s Mountain Dew!

Fat, straight, white people need to be destroyed.

Mountain Dew is the Schlitz Malt Liquor of soft drinks.

R19, it's the Daily mail, of course the comments will be that stupid. Meanwhile, these two probably pray to a picture of Trump.

Gay man who loves Diet Coke here.

Diet Pepsi is awful.

The HFCS drinks dry my mouth out so I avoid them.

Can you buy Mountain Dew in a 40?

I'm a Coke Zero (or whatever it is they're calling it now) lover. But I had to give it up months ago. I was getting heart issues from all the caffeine. Now I only drink flavored waters

Do they not make a caffeine free Coke Zero?

I like the caffeine free Diet Coke cause it is actually more crisp and has a better flavor than the caffeinated version.

Diet Coke is the only soda I like. All the other sodas taste terrible to me. I tried Mountain Dew a few times, many years ago, and it was absolutely disgusting.

No one in those pictures isn't overweight.

[quote]No one in those pictures isn't overweight.

Which is scary only in that Louisville still managed to be all the way down at #18 for fattest cities in the country

There are 2 of them. If each drink 2 cans of Mountain Dew per day, that makes 4 cans per day. They wanted to buy 552 cans. 552 divided by 4 is 138 days or 4.6 months. I don’t see that much wrong.

They probably do drink more than 2 cans per day. Just being conservative here.

[quote]They probably do drink more than 2 cans per day. Just being conservative here.

Add a 1 in front of the two and you'll be closer to their daily intake. People like that drink several with every meal.

2 cans per day?

Look at them. They're drinking 10-12 cans (2 x 6-packs) a day at a minimum.

People who drink Mountain Dew drink 2 x 2-liter bottles a day. These are the folks who think it's cool to brag about drinking 3 or 4 Big Gulps of it a day.

Something like this happened to my mom yesterday at Publix. She was a behind a woman who had 17 bottles of Pellegrino and the cashier told her she could only purchase 2. The woman freaked out because “it’s SPARKLING water, not a lot of people drink this!”

[quote] Do they not make a caffeine free Coke Zero?

Have you ever had a caffeine free cola? It's disgusting.

I find this citizen video style interesting that provides an example everyday Southern culture.

How much toilet paper to clean those asses? Oh wait, nevermind.

Oops R70, I'm sorry. I see from your original post you have had decaffeinated colas. I don't know, but maybe my taste buds react differently to the decaffeinated colas. I just can't stand them.

Aw, don't be mean. They were buying them to party with their friends this weekend.

[quote]Fat, straight, white people need to be destroyed

After 552 cans of Mountain Dew, they probably will be.

I am STILL HORNTY AS A PIGLET for these PIGS!!!

May I hold onto your sausage curl as you mount me, papa?

Obesity is going to be a huge factor here in who lives and dies from covid. It is considered a pre existing condition

Eww even if I decided to become the trashiest of fat whores I would never ever drink a Mountain Dew

While r85 is being snarky, he may not be that far wrong:

[quote]Obesity is a chronic disease characterized by the excessive accumulation of body fat that is harmful to the individuals. Respiratory disorders are among the comorbidities associated with obesity. This study had the objective of investigating the alterations in respiratory function that affect obese individuals. A systematic review was performed, by selecting publications in the science databases MEDLINE and LILACS, using PubMed and SciELO. The articles that assessed pulmonary function by plethysmography and/or spirometry in obese individuals aged under 18 years were included. The results demonstrated that the obese individuals presented with a reduction in lung volume and capacity as compared to healthy individuals. Reduction of total lung capacity and reduction of forced vital capacity, accompanied by reduction of the forced expiratory volume after one second were the most representative findings in the samples. The articles analyzed proved the presence of a restrictive respiratory pattern associated with obesity.

How the fuck do you even get that fat?

I drink TaB. I don't know what that says about me (maybe that I'm old). I bought 4 twelve packs last week. I'm stocked up for the next month

They need to shoot the person who made a bikini that size @R82

[quote]How the fuck do you even get that fat?

This is a question that I constantly ask myself when I see human garbage like these people. I can understand a few pounds overweight - it happens to all of us sometimes - but 100 pounds overweight? What do they do, eat and drink 24 hours a day? It's mind-boggling.

Ladies, are we really making “redneck” jokes? Imagine what jokes they make about gay men. IJS.

[quote]What do they do, eat and drink 24 hours a day?

As they watch TeeVee.

Ok, I'm a white American who has lived in both lower middle to lower upper class America and can break this all down for you. Poor people encourage their young to eat a lot and "get strong and big" just like your father, and grandfather, who ate a diet of coffee, cigarettes, steak, potatoes, beer, and whiskey. However, instead, the poor eat a diet of Mountain Dew (or "fruit drink" for black people, basically Kook-Aid), meth or crack, fast food, and cheap vodka. Once opiates enter the picture, it's all over. Lower middle class people learn that being fat is gross, around 12 or 13, but still think this shit "tastes good" so fast food and this synthetic shit enters the picture. Then energy drinks, then vaping, then meth, then opiates. Middle class wants their dopamine - sugar is best but caffeine can do the same thing by converting glycogen or blood glucose, crosses blood brain barrier. So DIET MOUNTAIN DEW for them. They are too scared and aspirational to really abuse anything properly. Upper middle class might learn something about nutrition, they might actually drink water (no way!) Kombucha or Green Tea, but still want that dopamine, so they become "wine moms" and the men might pretend to learn something about scotch and cigars, but in secret they are consuming steroids, stimulants, erection injections, whatever they can get their hands on from their doctors. Now the upper class? They are liberated enough to do it all. The elders are freebasing alcohol, while the young are experimenting with designer drugs, however, they all end up on the same shit as poor people eventually, stimulants and then opiates. Mountain Dew is a cheap stimulant. Me, I do Modafinil. Zero difference except I get to keep my teeth. Stop judging these people, if there was a store where you could go hoard what YOU want, cheaply, you'd be way more savage then them.

Carriage return paragraphs on this site? wtf wall of text?

Ok, I'm a white American who has lived in both lower middle to lower upper class America and can break this all down for you.

Poor people encourage their young to eat a lot and "get strong and big" just like your father, and grandfather, who ate a diet of coffee, cigarettes, steak, potatoes, beer, and whiskey. However, instead, the poor eat a diet of Mountain Dew (or "fruit drink" for black people, basically Kook-Aid), meth or crack, fast food, and cheap vodka. Once opiates enter the picture, it's all over.

Lower middle class people learn that being fat is gross, around 12 or 13, but still think this shit "tastes good" so fast food and this synthetic shit enters the picture. Then energy drinks, then vaping, then meth, then opiates. Middle class wants their dopamine - sugar is best but caffeine can do the same thing by converting glycogen or blood glucose, crosses blood brain barrier. So DIET MOUNTAIN DEW for them. They are too scared and aspirational to really a buse anything properly.

Upper middle class might learn something about nutrition, they might actually drink water (no way!) Kombucha or Green Tea, but still want that dopamine, so they become "wine moms" and the men might pretend to learn something about scotch and cigars, but in secret they are consuming steroids, stimulants, erection injections, whatever they can get their hands on from their doctors.

Now the upper class? They are liberated enough to do it all. The elders are freebasing alcohol, while the young are experimenting with designer drugs, however, they all end up on the same shit as poor people eventually, stimulants and then opiates. Mountain Dew is a cheap stimulant. Me, I do Modafinil. Zero difference except I get to keep my teeth. Stop judging these people, if there was a store where you could go hoard what YOU want, cheaply, you'd be way more savage then them.

—Anonymous

it tastes like sugar flavored piss, and always has.

7up is at least bearable, in a pinch.

7 up isn't bad if you mix it with vodka.

I'm shocked they had the money for it. Oh wait a minute, it's end of the month. Food stamps.

You can buy Mountain Dew with food stamps? That should be illegal.

Back years and years ago, Mountain Dew was decent. It had a nice citrus flavor to it.

I'm all jacked up on Mountain Dew.

I like Mountain Dew and Mountain Dew Code Red, heck I like about any soda that's not diet. Ironically I was raised the opposite of white trash, I was upper upper middle class and we were only allowed soda once a week growing up. Maybe it's the forbidden fruit aspect of junk food for me because I was never allowed it growing up. When I was a teen and had my own money one of the first thing I bought was a Hostess pie because I had seen the commercials for years but my mom would never allow us to have them. Even now my parents and siblings don't drink that much soda, but when they do it's Diet Coke. I know this because my parents have a cottage we go to in the summer and I see what they eat and drink when we're together.

> I've been doing online ordering (for store pickup or delivery) and EVERY item has a limit of two.

And that's exactly why I went nuts stockpiling 2-liter bottles of Diet Pepsi and Diet Mtn Dew 2 from Walmart 2 weeks ago. On a typical day, I drink 1/3 to 1/2 of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Mtn Dew for breakfast, and at least one bottle of Diet Pepsi the remainder of the day. If I'm working at the office, add another 2-3 cans of Diet Pepsi.

If I were limited to two 2-liter bottles of Diet Pepsi & didn't have a few dozen bottles stockpiled, I'd literally have to re-expose myself, quarantines be damned, at least every other day, just to live hand to mouth & never be assured of my next bottle's availability.

The moment it became obvious that I was likely to end up confined to my house for at least two weeks, I instantly set out to make sure I had at least a 30-day supply of literally everything I consume and use during a normal month, precisely so I wouldn't get forced into having to forage for supplies on almost a daily basis during the middle of a pandemic.

* Twelve pounds of ground beef? Sounds about right... ~3/4 pound per meal for my partner and I... barely enough for 16 meals.

* 6 pounds of bacon? It's one of my daily breakfast foods. A pound lasts me personally about 4-6 days, depending upon how many slices are in the pack.

* 150 cans of cat food? Yep. I have a cat with EPI & malabsorption who can't eat dry food, and needs to eat 3 cans of food per day just to not starve to death... and 4 more cats who collectively eat 2 cans of food per day, in addition to dry food. Do the math. 150 cans is literally a month supply.

* Six ~50 pound bags of cat litter, two 30-pound bags of zeolite, and ten pounds of baking soda? Yep. With Jackson Galaxy's full approval. One litter box per cat, plus two more (one of the extra ones to mitigate the cat with EPI who shits like a racehorse). To be honest, I really SHOULD have gotten EIGHT bags, just to be safe and feel confident that I have enough to last for 30 days.

* Eight pounds of butter? Yep. My partner goes through absolutely HORRIFYING amounts of butter, even for things like baking where margarine costs 1/4 as much & nobody would ever know the difference.

... and so on. Prior to 2 weeks ago, I didn't really realize how much shit I go through in an average month, because most of the time I'd hit a store or two per day and buy a few things at a time. Buying supplies for 30 days all up front is a sobering experience.

I don't know what they do to Diet Coke but it's apparently as addictive as meth. Friends of mine have tried to stop "using" and went through physical withdrawal (horrific migraines). It's not just caffeine, as it has less caffeine than coffee. I won't touch the stuff after seeing what it's done to people.

7Up is great mixed with orange juice.

I know what you mean about Diet Coke addiction. I've been hooked since it came out in the mid-'80s. But good luck if you're traveling to other countries. Some of them have "Coke Light," which is similar, but not the same (different sweetener, presumably) and other only have Coke Zero, if that.

R82 Thr men in the picture certainly are not hot by DL’s lofty standards, but not bad for that herd of Big Girls.

Way back when, I was addicted to Tab. It's crazy the amount I used to drink (it was free at my job), but I was working up to 16 hours a day.

When I was doing emergency work, I got back on the addiction cycle with diet coke and even worse, Pepsi Max. Funny enough, I rarely had the stuff around at home. Took me months to completely get off the stuff.

Mountain Dew was very popular amongst the docs and researchers I've been around. The e-clinics I was around were drowning in the stuff. Watching someone suck down that stuff with an Egg McMuffin or donuts at 6 am is something else.

Same here r102. I eat more junk than I should because I grew up with a mother who thought any kind of packaged food was trashy. The trashiest thing we had in the house was cookies (never cream filled) and boxed Mac and cheese (to which she would add fresh vegetables etc.). She was so restrictive that I ate all the junk I could get my hands on through my 20s and 30s. Ironically she was right and I try to eat better now.

R94/95, what in the hell are you talking about? I have never read such rambling bullshit in my life.

Diet Mtn Dew is the perfect breakfast drink... fruity, and packed with caffeine.

IMHO, Diet Mtn Dew tastes BETTER than regular. Regular's taste is too syrupy and overwhelming. Diet's "fruity" taste is dialed back a notch. It's hard to describe, but it's kind of like comparing Sunny D to slightly watered-diluted Tang. It was also one of Pepsi's first drinks to blend the primary sweetener with AceK, which makes the combo "smoother".

Apparently, back in the 1960s, blends of saccharin + cyclamate achieved the same thing. Cyclamate got banned (on highly questionable grounds), and everyone went to all-saccharn... with icky results. Blends of saccharin & aspartame didn't work (and saccharin's reputation was too damaged at that point to market anyway), but AceK is chemically similar to cyclamate.

This is also why gas-station diet Pepsi is a hundred times better now than it was 10 years ago. It's still formulated with saccharin instead of aspartame to improve shelf life (only McDonalds & corporate-owned Burger King locations use aspartame-formula Diet Coke because it has more demanding storage requirements and short shelf life), but NOW has saccharin + AceK blend, which is a HUGE step up from all-saccharin & saccharin-aspartame blend.

r109 you do drugs too, just better/different drugs. everyone in this country is on drugs, and they do sugar and caffeine. You are probably poor and aspirational, the kind that brings shit cocaine to a party.