Java Monster 300 time yet? Tho if it’s twitchingly oversweet there’s always Bang! Tastewise, a quart or so of sweetened cafe con leche is an artwork of alertness.
In other news, coffee really doesn’t need to be bitter. Try sweet Vietnamese iced coffee. When it’s well made, it’s VERY rich and potentially lethal to diabetics & anything with a low LD50 sensitivity to caffeine.
“They call it that good ol’ Mountain Dew / And them that refuse it are few / I’ll hush up my mug if you fill up my jug / With some good ol’ Mountain Dew…”
Fun detail! “Mountain dew” was originally slang for a certain kind of alcohol, so you’re not 100% wrong! I was given to understand it was more of a moonshine thing, but according to Wikipedia it’s specifically an old nickname for Highland Scotch.
Kick wasn’t all that much of a rival. Mello Yello was far more popular than Kick, but even Mello Yello can’t compete with Mountain Dew.
Kick was made by Royal Crown, and frankly, none of their soft drinks were any good. Kick was only on the market for 7 years. Mello Yello, on the other hand, has been around since the 70s, and is still going.
You must not have been drinking the stuff in the glass bottles pre-1990. That was definitely not flat. (Either that or you had a crappy bottling company)
It’s possible he programmed it similar to how Professor Madblood programmed Lovelace to take only his orders when she was running his moon base, but did it by visual similarity, except Baron did it dumber and programmed it to treat the occupant that way on the assumption that no one else would ever show up.
On the other hand, the program changed Nick’s clothes and there’s a security program, so he had to have given at least some thought to the possibility of others finding their way in.
It’s not accessible to guests. Anyone who could conceivably be considered a “guest” in Aimee’s world – including Aimee herself – is nothing more than a digital construct.
Nick is not limited in the way everyone else in here is. Nick is a machine. (Yeah, yeah, I know… “That’s what she said.”)
I’m diabetic too, but I just can’t stand 99.9999% of the diet and zero drinks on the market. Diet Mt. Dew and Crystal Light are pretty much the only things that even remotely palatable. And sometimes I cave in and just live dangerously.
FWIW I have diabetes & from checking blood sugar with test strips I find I *can* indulge my sweet tooth without spiking my blood sugar horribly, *IF* I do it immediately before some sort of physical activity.
One of the many things I miss about GA that I can’t get at a sane price in CA, Voltage. Anyone else know of a good substitute for Publix’s Mojo Rotisserie Chicken?
New comments on something a year or so old? Or older comments on older comics? Haven’t tried lately, just done it a couple of times altogether. (I checked one I made, and it’s still there.)
New comments on older comics. It’s been a problem for me for several months now. And it’s not device-specific. It happens whether I’m using my phone, or my old laptop, or my brand new laptop.
And I just tried replying to your comment. The page said “submitting comment” like it usually does, but then my comment doesn’t appear like it does on current strips. And if I try to post the same reply again (since the first one didn’t show up), it says “Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!” It’s incredibly frustrating.
Mountain Dew is not generally available in any of the countries I’ve lived in, so I have no idea what it tastes like. I assume it’s mostly sugar with a side order of caffeine?
I’ve never indulged in motor oil, so I can’t speak to that. But it is quite syrup-y. It’s like carbonated sugar syrup, with a shot of orange juice (yes, it actually has orange juice in it), and a bit more than “a side order” of caffeine
@ shufflecat I’m curious as to how you arrived at that conclusion, given it doesn’t taste like that to me and the label lists orange juice from concentrate as the primary natural flavor.
I’ll admit I’ve never tasted a real muskmelon. It’s not unusual for artificial flavors to be… distinct from the flavors they’re trying to replicate, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the “muskmelon flavored” stuff I’ve had doesn’t actually taste like muskmelon. And if Mountain Dew is made of orange juice, they certainly did a great job at making it taste nothing orange.
But I challenge anyone to take a sip of Midori and not describe the taste as “Mountain-Dew flavored cough-syrup”.
It’s Pitch Black not code black
You expect a digital construct of a creature that can’t even drink Mountain Dew to know that?
Code Black is probably Baron’s personal blend of Pitch Black and sweetened coffee . Coffee ☕, mmm.
Java Monster 300 time yet? Tho if it’s twitchingly oversweet there’s always Bang! Tastewise, a quart or so of sweetened cafe con leche is an artwork of alertness.
Sounds worse thanregular coffee (I don’t do bitter).
In other news, coffee really doesn’t need to be bitter. Try sweet Vietnamese iced coffee. When it’s well made, it’s VERY rich and potentially lethal to diabetics & anything with a low LD50 sensitivity to caffeine.
Oh, come on! Everyone knows that Mountain Dew Throwback is the only way to go. 🙂
Live Wire for me, thanks.
I prefer the Cherry Citrus Game Fuel, but I don’t know if Mt. Dew still makes it. So Live Wire is a close second.
I gotta say I’m not a big fan of the new “Major Melon”.
“They call it that good ol’ Mountain Dew / And them that refuse it are few / I’ll hush up my mug if you fill up my jug / With some good ol’ Mountain Dew…”
So the Baron drank Code Red and it swelled up his head?
He served Baha Blast for a Vegas repast.
They’ve stopped making it because of pandemic related shortages. 🙁 🙁
Hm… *google*
Oh, so it’s soda. I was expecting alcohol.
…There’s a Mountain Dew wiki?
https://mountaindew.fandom.com/wiki/Mountain_Dew_Wiki
Fun detail! “Mountain dew” was originally slang for a certain kind of alcohol, so you’re not 100% wrong! I was given to understand it was more of a moonshine thing, but according to Wikipedia it’s specifically an old nickname for Highland Scotch.
No, in the case of the soft drink they definitely named it after moonshine. The original advertising for it centered around a drunken hillbilly.
“Yahoo! Mountain Dew! It’ll tickle your innards!”
“It’s go-o-o-od!” 🙂
Back in the day it’s big rival was a soda of the same flavor called Kick.
The jingle for that one was…
“Give me some Kick, I want some more!
Give me some Kick, I want some more!
Give me some Kick, I want some more!
Kick like a kick like a mule!”. 🙂
Kick wasn’t all that much of a rival. Mello Yello was far more popular than Kick, but even Mello Yello can’t compete with Mountain Dew.
Kick was made by Royal Crown, and frankly, none of their soft drinks were any good. Kick was only on the market for 7 years. Mello Yello, on the other hand, has been around since the 70s, and is still going.
Mountain Dew fountains? It’s like the Neckbeard Gamer terrestrial paradise: all it needs is a Cheetos tree.
Paradise? Pumping any carbonated beverage through a fountain like that would make it go flat within minutes. No one would want to drink it.
And your Cheetos would go stale.
Good thing they’re virtual fountains, then.
Touché. With virtual fountains, they could be made to never go flat (or become contaminated with bird poop), so it really could be paradise.
Big CO2 tank. The Cheetos tree grows sealed bags of Cheetos so no stale Cheetos as if they wouldn’t all be scarfed down anyway!
This virtual world really is the Big Rock Candy Mountain, then.
It’s Mountain Dew, it’s damn near flat to start with.
(I drank far too much of the stuff in college, I speak from experience.)
You must not have been drinking the stuff in the glass bottles pre-1990. That was definitely not flat. (Either that or you had a crappy bottling company)
Anybody *but* Nick gotten into this place since Baron M. created it?
Yeah, that’s what I am confused about. If this is Baron’s personal paradise, why bother making it accessible for guests?
It’s possible he programmed it similar to how Professor Madblood programmed Lovelace to take only his orders when she was running his moon base, but did it by visual similarity, except Baron did it dumber and programmed it to treat the occupant that way on the assumption that no one else would ever show up.
On the other hand, the program changed Nick’s clothes and there’s a security program, so he had to have given at least some thought to the possibility of others finding their way in.
It’s not accessible to guests. Anyone who could conceivably be considered a “guest” in Aimee’s world – including Aimee herself – is nothing more than a digital construct.
Nick is not limited in the way everyone else in here is. Nick is a machine. (Yeah, yeah, I know… “That’s what she said.”)
It isn’t, that’s just how he wants these clowns to treat him
Orange is clearly the best! And now that I actually have diabetes, I reeeeeeally miss it
I’m diabetic too, but I just can’t stand 99.9999% of the diet and zero drinks on the market. Diet Mt. Dew and Crystal Light are pretty much the only things that even remotely palatable. And sometimes I cave in and just live dangerously.
I’d rather drink plain water than Diet Mt. Dew. There’s just something about that “diet” aftertaste that makes my skin crawl.
There was a vending machine at my college that sold Caffeine Free Diet Mountain Dew. What’s the point?
Exactly. That’s just yellow water with a bad aftertaste.
I miss caffeine free. All you can get here now is the caffeinated stuff, and I don’t get on well with caffeine.
FWIW I have diabetes & from checking blood sugar with test strips I find I *can* indulge my sweet tooth without spiking my blood sugar horribly, *IF* I do it immediately before some sort of physical activity.
I’m a Voltage man myself. The sweet, tingly taste of teal.
One of the many things I miss about GA that I can’t get at a sane price in CA, Voltage. Anyone else know of a good substitute for Publix’s Mojo Rotisserie Chicken?
And once again, any comment I make on older comics is swallowed up in the aether. Anyone else having this problem? And if so, is there a fix for it?
My comments post just fine on current comics, but on anything more than a year or so old, they just disappear.
New comments on something a year or so old? Or older comments on older comics? Haven’t tried lately, just done it a couple of times altogether. (I checked one I made, and it’s still there.)
New comments on older comics. It’s been a problem for me for several months now. And it’s not device-specific. It happens whether I’m using my phone, or my old laptop, or my brand new laptop.
awgiedawgie, I just picked a random strip and added a comment from my phone as a test.
It will be interesting to see if it persists.
And I just tried replying to your comment. The page said “submitting comment” like it usually does, but then my comment doesn’t appear like it does on current strips. And if I try to post the same reply again (since the first one didn’t show up), it says “Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!” It’s incredibly frustrating.
Mountain Dew is not generally available in any of the countries I’ve lived in, so I have no idea what it tastes like. I assume it’s mostly sugar with a side order of caffeine?
With an aftertaste of motor oil, yes.
I’ve never indulged in motor oil, so I can’t speak to that. But it is quite syrup-y. It’s like carbonated sugar syrup, with a shot of orange juice (yes, it actually has orange juice in it), and a bit more than “a side order” of caffeine
It is a favorite of gamers, programmers, and other people with reason to stay up all night. Caffeine wouldn’t survive in it.
@Seph: The normal fluorescent yellowish-green variety is muskmelon flavored soda (it doesn’t say that on the can/bottle, but that’s what it is).
Imagine a non-alcoholic Midori and soda water cocktail, with that sticky corn syrup aftertaste American soft drinks all have.
Up till the mid-seventies, it wasn’t available in upstate New York, where I grew up—I got my first taste of it on a visit to North Carolina.
@ shufflecat I’m curious as to how you arrived at that conclusion, given it doesn’t taste like that to me and the label lists orange juice from concentrate as the primary natural flavor.
I’ll admit I’ve never tasted a real muskmelon. It’s not unusual for artificial flavors to be… distinct from the flavors they’re trying to replicate, so it wouldn’t surprise me if the “muskmelon flavored” stuff I’ve had doesn’t actually taste like muskmelon. And if Mountain Dew is made of orange juice, they certainly did a great job at making it taste nothing orange.
But I challenge anyone to take a sip of Midori and not describe the taste as “Mountain-Dew flavored cough-syrup”.