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Pepsi Says Mountain Dew Can Dissolve Mouse Carcasses
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:06 am
by disneyboy20022
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 winning the argument that "our product is essentially a can of 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" again).
It's a good thing I don't Drink Mountain Dew, although I drink something similar created in Breese, IL
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Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:17 am
by singerguy04
OMFG!
That is horrifying.
Although, when you think about it... a mouse would probably turn into moosh when bottled into any liquid for an extended period of time. Depends on how long the bottle had been bottled i suppose.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:37 am
by Wonderlicious
Wow. Really wants to make me drink that awful hogwash even less!
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:11 pm
by Disney's Divinity
It's true that MD is very acidic. MD is very popular in my area, and I've heard most dentists they can recognize a MD drinker with the way the teeth look.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:11 pm
by phan258
I thought I read somewhere that regular ol' Coke can strip rust from metal and get oil stains out of concrete.... XD
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:56 pm
by PixarFan2006
It's official: I'm off Mountain Dew FOREVER!
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:05 pm
by slave2moonlight
As bad as it may be, I know I read in an article somewhere that orange juice acid is even stronger than soda and worse for your teeth.
Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:13 pm
by Disneyphile
Clearly, this is why they only serve Coke products in the parks. Run, Mickey!
Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 5:04 pm
by Elladorine
Reminds me of a lawsuit I read about ages ago involving McDonald's and a customer allegedly finding a mouse cooked into one of their apple pies.
The case was dismissed because the mouse was obviously planted after the fact . . . had it been discovered inside the pie as claimed, it wouldn't have been raw.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:12 pm
by ajmrowland
^who'd be stupid enough to not notice that?
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:57 pm
by The_Iceflash
Disneyphile wrote:Clearly, this is why they only serve Coke products in the parks. Run, Mickey!
I'm not going to lie, this is one of the many things about the parks that I love. It puts the icing on the cake and truly makes Disney parks the happiest places on Earth!
(and I'm not even that big of a soda drinker. I only drink soda once in a blue moon.) I almost always drink water.
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:31 pm
by L&P on the Scales
There's a reason the urban legend about Coke dissolving a tooth if you left it to soak for a few days exists (to wit; it was true in the past of regular coke, but the chemicals added must have changed since then because it wouldn't work now. Not sure how that applies to Mountain Dew, exactly).
We're capable of ingesting some pretty strong acids without any ill effects. I think the limit is just above the pH of stomach acid.