Mountain Dew and Pepsi Throwback
We were out shopping yesterday and happened across a display of Mountain Dew and Pepsi Throwback. For those of you who haven’t heard of the Throwback products from Pepsi, it’s basically their normal pop but instead of high fructose corn syrup they use sugar. I’ve been looking forward to trying this ever since it was announced.
Mountain Dew
I tried the Mountain Dew first, and it’s pretty good. I drink Dew all the time so I’m pretty familiar with its taste. The first thing I noticed that the taste didn’t ‘bite’ as much as the standard Dew – it was just a little bit muted. This wasn’t a bad thing though, it was just something I noticed.
Overall, the taste was very similar to the standard Mountain Dew which is a good thing. I suspect that’s what they were going for though and as I have a few more I may revise my impressions of it but overall it’s a worthy replacement.
Pepsi
Let me start off with saying that I’m a Coke guy. I’ve never been a huge fan of Pepsi at all. If the choices are Pepsi or water I would almost always choose water. I was curious to the taste of Pepsi Throwback so I picked up a couple of bottles of it along with the Dew. I was pretty impressed by the change – it’s not wildly different but it certainly tastes better than standard Pepsi to me. If this was the regular formula for Pepsi I would probably not switch from Coke but it would make it where I would order a Pepsi from time to time.
Overall
Overall, if the Throwback versions are truly less unhealthy as opposed to the high fructose corn syrup options I would definitely support replacing both the standard versions with the natural sugar versions. I suspect though, that the health impact is very small and I wouldn’t be surprised if the Throwback versions are more expensive than the standard variety.
I’d say based on taste alone I would support a change to the Throwback for Pepsi wholeheartedly. I’m not as convinced about Mountain Dew, though I have a few bottles left so reserve my right to change my opinion in either direction there. I think my biggest problem here is that I’ve been drinking Mountain Dew for so long any variance to the flavor takes a bit to fully get used to.
I hear that Coke with sugar is MUCH better than standard Coke. I hope that they release that at some point as I’d definitely give that a shot.
On a side note, if anyone has any tips on how to stop drinking pop alltogether I’m all ears.