Mountain Dew Flavor "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong"

[DudeistBelieve]

So a while ago Mt. Dew was holding a contest on the internet to name their new flavor soda.

The internet being the internet, you can guess what happened.

But lets say the head of Mt. Dew was the kind of guy who was like "Listen... we don't condone Nazi Germany at all, but the people have spoken, so were commiting to this name and brand campaign. Fucking internet."

Get a bunch of comericals and ads with like Hitler skater boarding and shit. The cans are branded with an extreme version of the swatika. Like they're clearly not embracing Nazi-ism, they're taking a piss at it, but ya know. Hitlers name is still on the can.

the question is... Do you even get as far as buy a bottle or can of the soda to try? Or is the idea of a berry flavored Mt Dew with that name so offensive you swear off drinking ANY Pepsi Co product?

 

[Dragonlayer]

I would heartily embrace the product, as it would finally justify me saying "It's Fuhrertastic!" to various things.

 

[Dornedas]

I probably wouldn't buy a can of it since I'm pretty sure the German government would have agents outside of every store and would immediately put me in for the possession of anti-constitutional symbolic.

But if that wasn't a fear? Then yeah totally just for the sake of the joke and all the angry editorials crying about the rise of Nazism.
But I have a hard time imagining what an extreme swastika is? Or is it like there is eXXtreme written on the front and the X are swastikas?

I wouldn't drink it though, too afraid it might be Zyklon B flavoured.

 

[McElroy]

That was in 2012. In the times of olde.

The dream of enjoying a nice flavour of Hitler Did Nothing Wrong on Boaty McBoatface has unfortunately mostly died.

 

[Thaluikhain]

No, because it's not just a joke, there are people that actually claim this, or who look rather similar if you squint a bit.

 

[DefunctTheory]

The dream of enjoying a nice flavour of Hitler Did Nothing Wrong on Boaty McBoatface has unfortunately mostly died.

I still think they should have run with Boaty McBoatFace.

They did an internet poll and it came up with a name that wasn't racist, sexist, anti-LGBT, otherwise bigoted, and it included no curse words. That poll deserved to be immortalized as the miracle it was.

 

[McElroy]

The dream of enjoying a nice flavour of Hitler Did Nothing Wrong on Boaty McBoatface has unfortunately mostly died.

I still think they should have run with Boaty McBoatFace.

They did an internet poll and it came up with a name that wasn't racist, sexist, anti-LGBT, otherwise bigoted, and it included no curse words. That poll deserved to be immortalized as the miracle it was.

Annoying as hell, really. There's no doubt the marketing people who come up with these do it while already celebrating how successful the end result will be. Actually, right now they're polling for the official national dish of Finland. I, as the Radical Rebel Dude that I am, already voted for croissants.

 

[Queen Michael]

Honestly? I would so buy a soda like that.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

No, because it's not just a joke, there are people that actually claim this, or who look rather similar if you squint a bit.

See thats... the shame I think.

Like I want to live in a world where we can take the piss out of Hitler with a soft drink with out assholes actually embracing it un-ironically. Why can't we have that world? I know theres no answer to that question. Ah well.

 

[MysticSlayer]

You mean the flavor of Mountain Dew isn't already offensive enough?

 

[Fox12]

I would buy as much as I could carry and stuff into my car. That's glorious.

You could even have a cartoon rapper on the front with hitlers black and white face super imposed over the head. Maybe he rides s skate board while carrying a boombox on his shoulder.

Or, fuck it, just settle for gushin grannies or diabetus in a can.

 

[Saelune]

No, because it's not just a joke, there are people that actually claim this, or who look rather similar if you squint a bit.

See thats... the shame I think.

Like I want to live in a world where we can take the piss out of Hitler with a soft drink with out assholes actually embracing it un-ironically. Why can't we have that world? I know theres no answer to that question. Ah well.

I think things like Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and Wolfenstein do a better job of belittling Hitler than a dumb drink.

Edit:

 

[DudeistBelieve]

No, because it's not just a joke, there are people that actually claim this, or who look rather similar if you squint a bit.

See thats... the shame I think.

Like I want to live in a world where we can take the piss out of Hitler with a soft drink with out assholes actually embracing it un-ironically. Why can't we have that world? I know theres no answer to that question. Ah well.

I think things like Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and Wolfenstein do a better job of belittling Hitler than a dumb drink.

Edit:

I know I know, it's just when I first read this news story, I laughed so hard for a full minute thinking about how absurd such a drink name would be. And just to take it to the logical extreme, I sincerely wish Pepsico was just like "Well... We said we were gonna have a contest..."

Plus I like mountain dew.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

You mean the flavor of Mountain Dew isn't already offensive enough?

Okay, ya see, now I'm triggered.

I know I'm sterotype, I friggin love Diet Mt Dew.

 

[Lightspeaker]

Like I want to live in a world where we can take the piss out of Hitler with a soft drink with out assholes actually embracing it un-ironically. Why can't we have that world? I know theres no answer to that question. Ah well.

To be fair I think the fact it was "Hitler did nothing wrong" rather than some pun or mocking of Hitler was probably the primary reason this wasn't too popular with the company. If it'd been a blatant joke it might just have gotten in.

After all, there's an ecchi card game called Barbarossa which turned Hitler into a big-breasted anime girl with thigh socks, a short skirt and flashing her underwear. I don't think that was particularly controversial for being pro-Hitler, despite playing as the Germans in it (though perhaps controversial for other reasons depending on your views on sexuality).

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Like I want to live in a world where we can take the piss out of Hitler with a soft drink with out assholes actually embracing it un-ironically. Why can't we have that world? I know theres no answer to that question. Ah well.

To be fair I think the fact it was "Hitler did nothing wrong" rather than some pun or mocking of Hitler was probably the primary reason this wasn't too popular with the company. If it'd been a blatant joke it might just have gotten in.

After all, there's an ecchi card game called Barbarossa which turned Hitler into a big-breasted anime girl with thigh socks, a short skirt and flashing her underwear. I don't think that was particularly controversial for being pro-Hitler, despite playing as the Germans in it (though perhaps controversial for other reasons depending on your views on sexuality).

While I get it... I mean the reason it's funny to me is that he very clearly DID do wrong. Like there hasn't been nearly a greater evil on this planet since the son of *****. It's as plain as the sky being blue to me.

 

[Erttheking]

I fail to see how this actually parodies Hitler. I mean if you want to mock the guy, have Captain America punching him in the face (oh wait, he was secretly a Nazi this whole time)

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

I would drink nothing else, despite the fact that it's Mountain Dew.