Sunday, July 08, 2007 4:55 AM
Manitoba (the province in Canada that I'm in...no, contrary to popular belief and the fact that all media from the US talks about Canada as one big glob, we do actually have seperate areas that we call "provinces"...well, we also have three territories too...but anyway)...let me start again...
Manitoba is just above North Dakota, and as such they are our main destination for any sort of US based shopping trips (we may have Walmart, but we don't have Super Target). For most of my life, hearing that friends were going to the states lit up my eyes and heart with joy that I would get to enjoy another passionate beverage session with what was then a US-Only product: Cherry Coke.
Then there was the revelation that the US sold Mountain Dew with caffeine! So not only did I have a non-Canadian beverage stocked in my fridge, it was technically contraband!*
But over the years, things have changed. Cherry Coke has been in Canada for a while now, and Mountain Dew, although still not officially allowed to carry caffeine, does have a version that contains Guenara (which, we all know, is loaded with caffeine under the hood). So why would I need to go back to North Dakota for now? To purchase a Vikings Daunte Culpepper jersey at T.J. Maxx? It seemed like crossing the border was passe...
Until I read about this. Diet Pepsi Max: With More Caffeine. Oh...my...gawd...could Diet Pepsi actually get any better?! This can only mean that Coke will need to respond, and hopefully they do so by kicking up their excellent Coke Zero beverage, which I've been downing like crazy lately. But regardless, we probably won't see DP:Max up here anytime soon. So I guess I'll be taking a trip down to ND sooner than later to stock up...and maybe get a case of Mountain Dew to fulfill my illegal smuggler fantasy.
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*Canada has a law that says no clear beverages can contain caffeine. Therefore, Mountain Dew is considered "clear" enough that it can't be caffeinated.