Ok Canadians - Explain this one please...

[FLBentRider]

While we were visiting your country, there were some adjustments we needed to make.

The whole "metric" thing - liters and kilometers and such.

and the dual labeling everything in English and French was actually a refreshing change from home where it's English / Spanish.

There is no "soda" it's "POP"

but THIS.... This is just WRONG




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>:(

;D ;D

[squirtthecat]

Oh man, that *is* a cruel joke..

[BuyLowSellHigh]

WHAT THE ... ?

[RAF128]

SO, what's wrong with that ;).    Just another soft drink.   I don't use it, but.   Only pop I drink has foam on top ;D.  Soda vs Pop.    Let me see.    Seems to me it used to be called soda pop.   Some shortened it to soda and some to pop.    Around here when someone says soda they're referring to a bubbly awful tasting water that they might but in their favorite beverage.  Yuk.   I like beverage to taste like that beverage and not all watered down and bubbly, or sweet like some pop(soda).   
Anyway this is all good fun.

[Habanero Smoker]

Many areas in New England still use the term "pop" for soda, as well as areas in Western New York. When I was growing up; the same area I now live, we used the word "pop" for soda. As television brought different pop cultures (pun intended) into our living rooms, or vocabulary began to change, and new words were adopted.

[FLBentRider]

I could have been more clear, the "caffeine free beverage" is the problem.

I believe that caffeine is the major reason most people drink Mountain Dew.

[Tenpoint5]

What the Heck  caffeine free MD!! That has to be nasty

[EZ Smoker]

I thought the caffeine free version was called Mountain Don't.

[RossP]

I am truly sorry, I think it happened a few years back when I was out of the country.
I came back and low and behold MD had no caffeine in it, I was horrified and wrote
all the appropriate politicians ;D. We use to have a soft drink called Jolt, a cola with
twice the caffeine and all the sugar of regular colas and that has mysteriously disappeared
also. Me thinks the Canadian government has some answering to do.
I think we should get Quarlow on this one to find out what has happened up here.

Ross

[monty]

from the Mountain Dew wiki entry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Dew

"Dew Fuel (2002–2007) – A caffeinated version of Mountain Dew offered in Canada. Marketed as a natural health product and not as a soft drink due to Health Canada regulations that only allow caffeine in 'dark-colored' varieties of soft drinks such as cola and root beer. "

[FLBentRider]

Thanks Monty!

I had no idea you could not have caffeine in non "dark coloured" beverages north of the border!

[TestRocket]

Sorry to have to admit it but we do have a couple of those in the bottom of our fridge for my SIL. She is on the 12-step step-down method to come off of caffeine! I don't know why?  ???

[ronbeaux]

Why? Simply that. Why? Are we not smart enough to make a choice?


$$$

Why can they sell the crap out of beer and can't have caffiene?

[StickyDan]

Well, the first problem is that it's not a beer.  The second problem is that it's not a beer.  And the biggest problem is that you had one of those while you could have been drinking a beer - Canadian Beer. 

[monty]

Thanks Monty!

I had no idea you could not have caffeine in non "dark coloured" beverages north of the border!

been like that for as long as i can remember. come to think of it - what pop (ahem...soda) is out there that has caffeine, that isn't a cola/dark coloured beverage? Red Bull and the like are marketed as 'health/energy drinks' here instead.

i did a little more digging and read that Mountain Dew everywhere outside of the USA is not caffeinated.

also

"we have Mountain Dew or Crab Juice"