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From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
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Subject: Re: Solution for NEW C(h)oke (dull beyond belief)
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 00:57:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 00:57:55 1985
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> [Choke, choke, cough, gasp...]
> 
> Why don't all of you just drink Mountain Dew?????
> 
> It's got lots of sugar and caffeine to keep you going during those
> long hacking sessions!!!!
> 
> [Blecch!!  This Coke tastes different.]
> 
> --
> Angel                          |     "But first, here's Jean Kirkpatrick  

Although I've now more-or-less been substituting Mountain Dew for Old Coke,
there are reasons I cannot accept this as the ONE TRUE REAL THING-substitute.

1) Taste limits.  My guts are calibrated to the slightly acidic,
   take-the-enamel-off-your-teeth flavor of Coke.  So long as there's a 
   men's room in the Computer Science building, I can drink Coke until the
   combined effects of 40 hours of awakeness and Hack finally shuts me down.
   Unfortunately, I have found some assorted limits (besides availability
   of quarters) my taste buds are set to:

Pepsi		1 Pizza Hut(tm) pitcher (only when there's pizza to wash it
			down with; I won't drink it otherwise so any other
			measurements are irrelevant)
Mountain Dew	5 cans.  Maybe 6, but I think the sugar got to me.
Sunkist		2 cans.  Headaches, y'know.
Mug root beer	3 cans.  These things have an bizarre aftertaste I know I
			don't especially care for.
A&W root beer	6 cans.  Somewhat less of a problem than Mountain Dew, but I
			have this bad habit of drinking it with a Hershey's
			Big Block.
Dr. Brown's	2 cans.  Any of their products are weird enough that I can't
			take any more.
Sprite		Most any number.  Not an inspiring drink, but it's there.
7up		3 cans.  Too bland.
Mello Yello	None.  Spent 2 weeks at a camp once where the machines only
			had this stuff.  Between this stuff and Gumpert's
			Instant (vitamin enriched) Drink mix, guess who won.
			Now guess which soda I'll never touch again.
Dr. Pepper	2 cans.  I'm not a Pepper.
Old Tyme 
 Ginger beer	1 can.  Can you imagine a drink which has all the properties
			of freshly sliced ginger?
Canada Dry
 Ginger Ale	4 cans.  Another boring drink.

Diet anything	Uh, right.  The taste is unmistakable.  I've used several
			successfully in chemical warfare against skunks.
			'Nuff said.

Now that I've bored you all to death I suppose I should solicit other
personal limits on soft drink consumption.  These measurements made courtesy
of the University of Maryland Student Union, one unnamed camp, and the
Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, MD) Chess Club And Plastic Card And
Frisbee Throwing Team.

-dave <wwhhheeerrrre is the oooooold c-c-cccoke???> hsu