Caffeine - it's all relative

Does anyone remember when Mountain Dew was the caffeine soda? Years ago I remember people talking about Mountain Dew like it was a caffeine delivery system, containing so much caffeine it would keep you up all night long. Of course, this did happen to me once. As a naive college sophomore, I lived above a campus store which sold snacks until late into the night. One evening, enjoying my freedom to stay up late and do as I please, I purchased a Mountain Dew around 11:30pm. As someone who didn't drink much soda at all, I was unaware that soda contained caffeine, until my roommate informed me, right as I finished the last drop. And since it was Mountain Dew, he told me I had just consumed so much caffeine that I'd be up all night. And I was. Either because of the caffeine itself, or the threat of caffeine keeping me up all night, I lay in bed staring at the ceiling for hours. Needless to say, I gave up late night sode drinking and started drinking Mountain Dew in the morning soon thereafter.

But back to my original point - Mountain Dew really isn't very high on the list of caffeinated beverages. Sure, it has more than the usual cola, but not by much. And nowadays, you can find Jolt (can you? can you still find Jolt?), energy drinks, energy shots, expresso, caffeine pills, Starbucks ... tons of ways to deliver caffeine into your body. And Mountain Dew really isn't near the top of that list. Tastewise - yes. Otherwise ....

http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database

Mountain Dew: 4.6 caffeine mg. per ounce
Coke: 2.9
Dunkin Donuts Coffer: 8.9
Jolt Energy: 11.9
Expresso: 51.3
Jolt Endurance: 100.0
Redline Power Rush: 140.0

Good thing I didn't have a Redline that night in college many (many) years ago .....

Code Red

Whatever happened (is happening to) Code Red? Perhaps the most flavorful of all the Mountain Dew offspring, it's slowing disappearing from view. Today I frequented the local grocery store (see first post) to do another inventory on the soda shelves, and Code Red was only available in 2-liter bottles (almost wrote '64-oz' there ... surely dating myself), and not even in a diet version, which really doesn't taste very diet at all. One Code Red bottle facing the aisle - with a few stacked neatly behind it. What's the deal with this? Personally, not much beats Code Red, but since I'm on this 'half-regular / half-diet' kick, I need both the diet and regular versions to mix together, and I vastly prefer 12-oz cans to the larger bottles. I'm curious, very curious ... what happened to Code Red?
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I'm on schedule, sort of. Now I have 3 'followers', which triped what I had just after I signed up. Now, if those three tell two people, and they tell two people ... then in no time short I'll be marching towards my 100 followers. As for the posts, I'm still here. I'll still be here at least once a week. Again, my goal is 150 posts and 100 followers within one year.

Steely Dan

I think it's "... you go back, Jack, do it again ...". Which is what I did - back for seconds with Mountain Dew Ultra Violet. On sale, of course. And I had a wide selection to choose from (although I would have taken Diet Code Red in a twelve pack if I could have found it). But I'm still confused about the total lack of advertising for this one flavor. Anyone have any clues about this?

As for this blog, my theory of "... and they told two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on ..." isn't holding up, or at least these 'two friends' aren't signing up to Follow this blog. Disappointing, to say the least. I may have to find a different way to get the word out.

I find this whole "daylight savings time" issue to be interesting. Not in and of itself, but that some areas fall back timewise, and some (AZ) don't. So, those in say, Phoenix, are sometimes essentially on Mountain Time and sometimes on West Coast Time. I do agree that not falling back makes daily life a little easier - no having to adjust your internal clock twice a year or having to adapt to an abrupt onset of winter darkness - but since almost everybody else does it, why not EVERYBODY? I'm also curiuos about how the "lines" which separate time zones in the United States happen to cut states in half (Kentucky), or carve out parts of states (what's up with Indiana and Kansas?)

http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-usa12.php