My husband is crazy about Mountain Dew
Does he just drink the original flavor, or does he also like the cherry Code Red style as well?
His is a crazy green color so I'm guessing original flavor!  How long has Mountain Dew been around?
Yeah, that sounds like the original green. It was invented in 1940 actually and the formula was revised in 1958.
Wow, I didn't know it was around that long.  Where is it made?
Still made in Tennessee, where it was originally invented by Barney and Ally Hartman. Good old USA products.
That explains it!  My husband is from Tennessee.
rights were acquired from Tip by the Pepsi-Cola company, and the distribution expanded across the United States and Canada.
Between the 1940s and 1980s there was one variety of Mountain Dew, which was citrus-flavored and caffeinated in most markets. Diet Mountain Dew was introduced in 1988, followed by Mountain Dew Red, which was introduced and discontinued in 1988. In 2001, a cherry flavor called Code Red debuted. This product line extension trend has continued, with expansion into specialty, limited time production, region-
drink similar to the previously released Pepsi Blue. Both drinks were given World of Warcraft-based packaging, and sported the newly updated "MTN Dew" logo. Like their precursor, these two flavors lasted for 12 weeks and were discontinued.
On 24 August 2011, Mountain Dew announced another return of the Game Fuel promotion on their Facebook page. The original citrus-cherry would once again return, along with a new tropical companion flavor. The announcement gave a planned release date of October 2011 and stated that the packaging