Mountain Dew MDX

Energy Drinks Are Back!
With the new Mountain Dew MDX!

Of all the craziness, they have come out with an energy drink from the people who started this caffeine craze!
Mountain Dew has the "MDX"
Their new slogan is, "Be Nocturnal"
lol

You can log onto their website and play the flash games, or watch the video ads
(I know my sister will love the second one)
:-)

Honestly, after trying it,
I can't taste a huge difference between it and mountain dew. Most energy drinks are really carbonated, but this tasted just like normal dew.
But, at $1.72, it's a really good deal (where most drinks are $2.09 after tax).

If it came down to it, though, I'd just grab an Amp.
(Speaking of which, is "Amp" a competitor of MDX? Very odd, since they are from the same company... I wonder how the target audiences differ)
But the little bottle is nice, since you can take it into computer labs (they require that your drinks have a cap before you sit in front of the computer).
Weighing in at 14oz, it's a cross between the huge energy drinks and the micro-cans.

I was talking to another computer science major
(Luke, from the TAGD team). He was telling me that the way you can spot a good energy drink is if it tastes like Science. I don't really know what he meant since, when I think of science, I think of beakers full of formaldehyde with frogs and pig livers... But if tasting "science-y" is the scale for good energy drinks, MDX fails. It doesn't even seem to wake me up more than mountain dew.

Sad day.
;-)

Energy Drinks

..::Energy Drinks::..

This is a short little post ranting over some of the most memorable energy drinks I've had.

note: Understand that I just pulled an all-nighter studying for my database exam and doing other homework (cpsc 332), so my grammar and english will not be the best.

So far I'm living off of an AMP, a Monster and a Full Throttle.


Yes, Amp. The beautiful drink made by mountain dew that keeps you up and going when you're almost all dead.
:-)

Another way to stay up is by listening to the mountain dew music player.
It's alright music, hard to fall asleep to. ;-)

Amp: It's small, but it has quite a kick to it.



Now the monster. This is the big daddy of energy drinks. This guy will keep you up when you're running only on fumes. Sigh, it's sad that I can actually do a blog all on energy drinks. I really like the taste of monster, my favorite flavor is "Monster Assault".

The downside of this drink is that it's huge, so you'll be making a ton of bathroom breaks.




Alright, now we move on to the "Full Throttle". When you buy this drink, make sure that you get the one that has sugar in it. If you don't you'll be tasting the "diet coke" version of full throttle and it's really nasty. Why does it taste just like diet coke? Because it's made by coca cola. This drink is the same size and the monster drink, so expect to be making frequent runs, but it tastes very good. It's sweeter than most energy drinks and has a lot of sugar in it.





Now it's time for the finalists.

..::THE WORST::..
You'd think with a name like, "Pimp Juice"... well, actually, I don't really know what to think. Ok, let me comment that the can looks very cool. It's all gold (even on the top tab). If I drank energy drinks for the cans (which I sometimes do), this one would get a good 8/10... sadly, the gold can is the best part of this drink.
First, the drink is green. Not apple green, no, nuclear waste green. Not only that, but this is the only energy drink I've ever had that BURNED when it went down my throat. It was like I was drinking Vick's Vapor Rub... Now, to top it all off, it tastes awful! If orange juice is made from freshly squeezed oranges, I don't want to imagine where this foul liquid came from.

..::THE BEST::..

But, by far, the best energy drink out on the market is "Bawls". Yes, as the name suggests, this drink has a lot of chutzpah.

This drink is just the right size, and the bottle looks AWESOME. No wonder it's the hard-core gamer's energy drink of choice. The downside? Well, it's hard to find, expensive and... well, I started shaking a few hours after downing it. LOL.



Now, you can get your energy drink opinions from anyone, but it'd be smart to take the advice from a college student in computer science who pulls all-nighters all the stinkin' time.

Over the summer semester, I pulled six. The last four days of class, I only got to sleep once (in other words, 3 out of 4 days I didn't have to make my bed).

So I hope you understand that I'm a professional and I know what I'm talking about ;-)