Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

Oh so that solves that puzzle thanks.

To be fair, I think Mtn Dew is probably just better logo material, and it helps the brand distance itself a bit from the naturalistic nature of the full name.

After all, "neon green lime-flavored sugar bomb 4 cool people" doesn't entirely fit the nice "mountain dew" words.

Kinda like making a vodka brand named "Tropical Sunset".

Bearing in mind the colour of the bottle ... Check the ingredients list they have to provide & compare it to other similar products! It's certainly no worse than most of them

@BabyYoshi12 I corrected the link, because it didn't work initially, and if you're outside the US, you apparently can't access the page, unless of course you're using a VPN or something similar.

@NEStalgia Haha, yeah, I noticed the "dumbing down" of the name as well. When did that happen? Last time I saw anything Mountain Dew related, it was still written in complete syllables...

@Eel Now, in a normal world, that might actually make sense, but advertising and marketing definitely isn't a part of the normal world, as I know all too well.

Besides, otherwise, there's actually no really logical reason or interesting selling point for my favorite rum to have a black bat in its logo...

@BruceCM The color of the bottle is actually the exact color of the contents, as clearly visible in that first picture that I posted in comment #45,172.

Bats are cool, mysterious, and dangerous.

That's probably the feeling they're trying to evoke. Gotta make the alcohol sound and look cool to sell it to the right people.

Eh, it's a bit of colouring, like is used in almost every soft drink & plenty of food, @ThanosReXXX.... It's far from being the worst ingredients in most of them, if that's the concern

@ThanosReXXX It's been that way for quite a while now, actually. At least 5 years, maybe more. Shortly after it became the go-to brand for X-Sports (because writing extreme is also 2 hrd.)

Also the contents aren't exactly the color shown there....it's similar ish but that color over-saturates it horrendously. It's not really THAT solidly opaque a color. It's, indeed a bright yellow, but it's much more translucent more of a paler-but-still-neon-ish color than that. It's bright, but doesn't look like something from a Spiderman comic like that picture above.

@Eel They're selling booze to drunks...how creative does it need to be?

You'd be surprised, it's probably like the console wars but with alcohol brands.

The fancy expensive bottles would be like the cool gamer PC's.

@Eel So... I don't HAVE to like Batman?
(for the record: I actually do)
I was only semi-serious with that previous comment. I actually wondered about that logo before, and once I believed that the bat logo might have to do with the history of Bacardi, and having to secretly brew and store it in caves, places where bats might obviously hang around as well.

But now that I brought it up again, I decided to look it up, and the truth is far less clandestine or sinister:

"Ever wonder why the legendary rum maker would choose a bat as its brand logo?

As the story goes, company founder Don Facundo Bacardi Massó’s wife, Doña Amalia Bacardí, spotted fruit bats in the family’s distillery one day. Believing the winged visitors were a sign of good luck, she insisted they be the symbol of the family’s company.

Her intuition was spot on, as Bacardi rose to be one of the largest spirit manufacturers in the world with legions of fans, including Ernest Hemingway, who referenced the company in three of his novels."

@BruceCM Depends on what that "just a bit of coloring" consists of. Mountain Dew isn't banned in so many countries around the world for no reason, you know...

Isn't it, @ThanosReXXX....? Probably due to other additives, though. Which would make plenty of other energy drinks banned, too

"and also because bats are ****** cool", added Doña Bacardi.

@BruceCM Yeah, obviously it's not just coloring, it's also about additives (edit: although I've hardly ever seen any of these garish colors in soda drinks over here, if ever). If you can access that link I posted earlier, it's an interesting read, also mentioning six other food items banned around the world but not in the US. The States seem to be far more lenient towards toxic food items than lots of other countries.

Then again: I shouldn't be too surprised about that, seeing as even tap water is filled with additives, amongst which the supposedly beneficial fluoride, which is only beneficial in certain amounts and/or daily doses.

@NEStalgia Well, I found a more accurate pic... erm, I mean picture:

I suppose it doesn't entirely look like something created in Norman Osborn's secret lab, but it definitely still looks just as toxic as Red Bull or Monster...

Eh, try it.... You might even like it

@ThanosReXXX lol. Well it's basically HFCS, citric acid, random "colors and flavors"and water..... Do it's toxic enough . But the good kind of toxic . The color is still overdone there though and i still like the real sugar kind...hfcs tastes so chemical to me.

Speaking about Toxic...

@ThanosReXXX I mean I honestly don't know how Nintendo could be so out of touch to not realize people want their games from later systems too. I just don't.

As for the other stuff - the benefit of an online forum is that I can leave whenever I want and, no offense, I don't really care what people think here, at the end of the day.

As I've only skimmed the last couple of pages, why are we discussing toxic green carbonated beverages? XD Even when I normally drank sofa, I didn't particularly care for Mountain Dew.

Just about anything brown without "Diet" slapped in front of the main name, on the other hand....

@Heavyarms55 True migraines are thankfully rare; typically my headaches range from "Yeah, it's bothering me, but I can function" to " Okay, gotta close my eyes for a minute while resting my head. Then back to it!"

I normally power through all but the worst ones without painkillers unless they last more than a few hours. I'm not against meds by any means, but I'm also a believer in not using them unless they're really needed.

Its been a while guys and gals. How has everyone been?