Dew to Circumstances Beyond Our Control: How many Mountain Dew flavors have you tried?

[SimuLord]

(disclaimer: This post not paid for by PepsiCo or any other corporate entity. I wish I could get paid to pimp products on message boards. That sounds like a sweet way to pick up some cheap and easy cash. Anyway...)

According to Mountain Dew's Wikipedia article, if you total up all the variations, limited trial runs, Slurpee and Taco Bell special flavors, and all the other stuff sold under the Mountain Dew brand name in the United States (note that Canadian, European, and Australian readers here will be a bit limited in what they've been offered), there have been a total of 44 flavors of Mountain Dew since the original debuted in Tennessee in 1948.

Personally, I've tried:
Mountain Dew. The original and for my money still the best---my beverage of choice and one of the things I'm known for at school (along with the stuffed animal and the Groucho impression.)
Caffeine-Free Mountain Dew. I was married to a Canadian for five years, so trips to her home country meant drinking the decaf version.
Diet Mountain Dew. And let us never speak of it again. Tastes like battery acid.
Mountain Dew Live Wire. Orange/tangerine flavor, and I adore the stuff, but can't find it cold in 1-liter bottles. If I could, I'd probably drink more of it, but I don't like paying $1.49 for a 20-ounce bottle.
Mountain Dew Pitch Black. Glad to see this one coming back later this spring. The subject of a running gag between my roommate and me back in 2004 when it first debuted---she and I both loved the stuff.
Mountain Dew Baja Blast. Available only at Taco Bell. Can't say as I'm a fan. Besides, nachos go better with cola, so I'm usually drinking Pepsi at Taco Bell...if I'm not getting my nachos from Del Taco and eating them with Coca-Cola Quantum. (what's Coca-Cola Quantum? Ask me and I'll tell you all about it. One of the genuine MacGyvered pleasures of the Reno Wasteland.)
Darth Dew. Slurpee flavor, came out in 2005 as part of a tie-in with Star Wars Episode III. C'mon, how can you not love a Slurpee that comes in a cup with a Darth Vader helmet for the domed lid? Same flavor base as Pitch Black, which as mentioned earlier, I loved.
Game Fuel (2007). The original Halo 3 tie-in run. Whose demented idea was it to combine cherry and citrus? Whoever it was should be (insert means of torture appropriate to Halo universe here---I don't play console shooters but plenty of you folks do.)
Mountain Dew Throwback. Friends and I decided to blind taste-test this stuff alongside the original to see if there is anything to the notion that high fructose corn syrup has an "off" taste due to its manufacturing process. If our taste tests were anything to go by, indeed it does. Because real cane sugar adds something---a sweetness that can only be described as genuine. Personally I wish they'd ban HFCS, since the stuff is proven to be behind all manner of awfulness because of the way the body metabolizes it. Diabeetus doesn't run in my family---literally none of my relatives have ever had it. I hope that saves my bacon.
Mountain Dew Distortion. 3rd place out of 3 in the 2010 DEWmocracy promotion. Figures, since I loved it.

Let's see...counting up my total, that's 10 different Dew flavors! My goodness, I really do love the stuff, don't I?

FOR DISCUSSION!How many Dews have you tried, and which ones have you liked and disliked?

 

[WrongSprite]

This is the only one I've seen in the UK, and thus tried.

http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/images/product_images/main/dew500ml-1.jpg

It was alright...wish we had the variety you guys had though.

Monster fanboy myself

 

[Hunter6475]

I've tried about 5 dew flavors I think, the original flavor is still my favorite though, can't go a day without something fresh off the mountain!

 

[SimuLord]

I've never tried it. It's only recently I've started seeing it being sold in the UK, and I'm an Irn-Bru fanboy.

The nearest place to my house that sells Irn-Bru is in Los Angeles, which is over 400 miles from Reno. Then again, I do know people in LA...where's Aylaine when you need her? Hey, ship me up a few bottles of that...I'll pay you for them!

 

[nunqual]

I've tried the original, diet, code red (red alert? I don't know), and both of the World of Warcraft versions. I really liked the Alliance flavor for the World of Warcraft stuff, and mixing Horde and Alliance flavors created a really interesting drink.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I've had three, I believe: Code Red Mountain Dew, regular Mountain Dew, and Mountain Dew Live Wire.

Favorite has to be Code Red.

 

[Megacherv]

This is the only one I've seen in the UK, and thus tried.

http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/images/product_images/main/dew500ml-1.jpg

It was alright...wish we had the variety you guys had though.

Monster fanboy myself

I've hard that it tastes like slightly diluted lemonade. Is this true?

 

[Scizophrenic Llama]

Regular, Code Red, Live Wire, Game Fuel, and Baja Blast are the ones I can remember.

Definitely like regular over all of the others. I didn't mind Baja Blast though.

 

[WrongSprite]

This is the only one I've seen in the UK, and thus tried.

http://www.watercoolinguk.co.uk/images/product_images/main/dew500ml-1.jpg

It was alright...wish we had the variety you guys had though.

Monster fanboy myself

I've hard that it tastes like slightly diluted lemonade. Is this true?

In a way. There's something else with it though, that I can't place. It's not bad to be fair, give it a go.

 

[sooperman]

Alright, lets count.

I've tried original, diet, Live Wire, Game Fuel(Standard/Horde Red and Alliance Blue), Throwback, all six Dewmocracy flavors(Revolution, Voltage, SuperNova, White Out, Distortion and Typhooon), Pitch Black, and Code Red.

That totals 15, if you count HR as separate. Which is cool, because I'd never counted them before.

 

[DarkShadow144]

Ive tried original, diet, and game fuel(alliance and horde) my favorite would be the horde game fuel and a curse on whoever took it off the shelves

 

[smearyllama]

I only get Diet. It's the only type my mom lets me get.

I just realized how sad that sounds....

OT: I've tried original, Live Wire, and the blue flavor. I didn't like the blue flavor.

 

[AWC Viper]

Code red and the blue one.. I did not care for it.

Code red is now my crack

 

[Sandytimeman]

You guys have to try this:

Equal parts Mountain Dew Regular, Baja Blast, and Code Red. It tastes exactly like a Gummybear.

I'm serious we actually sold this at the Taco Bell I worked at in Highschool

 

[Lunepyre]

I've had the original Mountain Dew, Caffeine Free, Diet, Code Red, Diet Code Red, Pitch Black (*and* the second Pitch Black which was 'sour', I liked that one too) Baja Blast, Livewire, Game Fuel, Distortion, Supernova, Revolution, Voltage, White Out, and Typhoon. Is one of my fave sodas and I am happy to learn Pitch Back is returning <3

 

[Russian_Assassin]

I have never tried MD (That's mountain dew, not MDMA), since they don't sell it here. I do love Red Bull however...

 

[Neonbob]

I've tried quite a few flavors, but my main Dew is Diet.
I really wish they'd make a diet White Out, though.
EDIT: I forgot to mention: Decaf dew is the bloody DEVIL. I drink the stuff for its caffeine, so by taking out that vital ingredient, they are neutering the entire beverage. And that is just a crime.

 

[Choppaduel]

the regular one, and Code Red from awile ago, and a blue one once that I can't remember the name of.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Regular. It's okay, I guess.

Code Red. My most-bought.

Livewire. My favorite...but least bought.

That new White one. It's okay...Can't really taste the citrus, though.