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Pepsi Says Mountain Dew Can Dissolve Mouse Carcasses

POSTED BY: DREAMTROVE
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 15:13
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Monday, January 2, 2012 6:40 PM

DREAMTROVE


http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/pepsi-says-mountain-de
w-can-dissolve-mouse-carcasses/46868
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Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense: their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have found it. An Illinois man sued Pepsi in 2009 after he claims he "spat out the soda to reveal a dead mouse," the Madison County Record reports. He claims he sent the mouse to Pepsi, which then "destroyed" the remains after he allowed them to test it, according to his complaint. Most shudder-worthy, however, is that Pepsi's lawyers also found experts to testify, based on the state of the remains sent to them, that "the mouse would have dissolved in the soda had it been in the can from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff drank it," according to the Record. (It would have become a "jelly-like substance," according to Pepsi, adds LegalNewsline.) This seems like a winning-the-battle-while-surrendering-the-war kind of strategy that hinges on the argument that Pepsi's product is essentially a can of bright green/yellow battery acid. The lawyers still appear to be lawyering behind the scenes but we cannot wait for this to come to trial (though we think a trial is about as likely as the chances of us "Doing the Dew" ever again).

Hmm. Anyone have a picture to go with that?



That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 3:52 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 4:27 AM

BYTEMITE


Mountain Dew is awful stuff, akin to donkey urine.

>_> I drink Dr. Pepper. Even though that's not all that healthy either.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 4:37 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


Quote:

Originally posted by Bytemite:
Mountain Dew is awful stuff, akin to donkey urine.

>_> I drink Dr. Pepper. Even though that's not all that healthy either.



We gave up on soft drinks a few years ago. Now it's water, coffee (decaf), beer (not 'lite'), and wine at the Geezer household.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 5:52 AM

DREAMTROVE


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Originally posted by Geezer:





Here too, green tea, orange juice, no red bull.

Nice gelatinous mouse.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 10:51 AM

CANTTAKESKY


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081767/Ronald-Ball-finds-mous
e-Pepsi-wrong-dissolve.html


This article offers more details.

So their defense is, "Oh no. There couldn't have been a mouse in there. Our drink would have dissolved it."

I think they need better lawyers, right?

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 12:31 PM

FREMDFIRMA


Quote:

Originally posted by Bytemite:
Mountain Dew is awful stuff, akin to donkey urine.

>_> I drink Dr. Pepper. Even though that's not all that healthy either.


Hoo lordy, there's a T-shirt for ya there.
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Me, I drink coffee, or rather the boiled down sludge at the bottom of the pot of what used to be coffee - basically the oral equivalent of D5W/Ringers.

-Frem

I do not serve the Blind God.

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Tuesday, January 3, 2012 3:13 PM

RIONAEIRE

Beir bua agus beannacht


I don't drink fiz except for the occasional slowly drunk sparkling apple juice or hard cidar. My body never got used to fiz so I don't do well with it, my body gets mad at me when I have it. I don't understand how everyone else can drink it in large quantities. My little brother is like me, but he can't have any yet because it hurts him so going down. I couldn't drink it at all until I was probably in high school. But never soda pop.

I mostly drink water and milk, my bad treat is a pitcher of KoolAid once a month.

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