I’m an Originalist

Oh look! Nate ‘s answering yet another question from Father Knows Best? Gather round everybody! Today’s question comes from Stacey, author of Mommiverse. Let’s see what she asked me!

Hey Nate, I was just wondering if your Mt. Dew addiction carries over to their other occasional flavors, ie: the Halo and WoW Game Fuels, Code Red, etc.? Or are you a Dew Traditionalist?

All the best!

Stacey =)

Ooh…now we’re getting really personal. Great question Stacey. I’m not kidding when I say I get asked this a lot. The short answer is: I am a Dew Traditionalist.

The long answer is: I haven’t really tried any of the other versions of Mt. Dew. I think, if my memory serves me right (highly unlikely) I took a swig of Code Red once. It wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t Mt. Dew.

I remember the first time I had Mt. Dew. I can literally picture the entire event. It was a banner day for me. I was hanging out at my dad’s business, an indoor batting cage facility, when the Pepsi guy showed up with the latest shipment of soda tanks. This was a time when the tanks came pre-mixed so that the proprietor couldn’t mess with the soda/water ratio. The Pepsi guy told my dad he had a new product for us to try. It was Mt. Dew.

My dad hooked it up and he and I got our cups and poured ourselves our first taste of Mt. Dew. It was love at first drop. I was probably about 10 years old at that time. Since then I have pretty much been drinking Mt. Dew non-stop. It’s not that I’m addicted. I drink other drinks when Dew is not available. I’ve spent months at a time without consuming Mt. Dew because I was at a summer camp where no soda was available. I didn’t experience any kind of withdrawals.

I simply just love Mt. Dew. The way you love a person and HAVE to see that person everyday, that’s how I love the taste of Mt. Dew. Even with as much Dew as I have consumed over the years, I still take a sip sometimes, and turn to my wife and say, “Man this stuff is good!”

So if I have the choice, I always choose Dew. And there’s no need to try a different flavor of Mt. Dew, or a more extreme energized version of it. That is how I am with all foods. I always prefer the original.

Skittles? I only like the original flavors.

Cheeseburgers? Cheese and ketchup only.

Pizza? Cheese please.

In fact, my most favorite pizza joint is located in Kansas City and it is called “Original Pizza.” I find a taste I like and then I don’t mess with it. Life is too short to waste a whole meal on something that I might not like. What if this is my last meal? I don’t want my very last meal to be an experiment gone wrong.

And when I die, I want the last taste on my lips to be the sweet taste of Mt. Dew. The only way to make sure that happens is to keep drinking it as much as possible.

Geez, when did this blog become “Improvising Mt Dew Consumption”? I’ll try to make my next post a little more Chandler-centric. But hey, in the meantime why don’t you go and sign my petition. If this post wasn’t a testament to how deserving I am of a lifetime supply of Mt. Dew, then I don’t know what is!