Subject: Poison
   Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:30:09 -0400
   From: "Fitch, Neal A. (PSC)" <deleted@for.your.security>

Mountain Dew, not the band. Ha ha!

Anyway, so MD contains "brominated vegetable oil". Not knowing what "brominated" means, I looked in my dictionary for a definition. Here are the closest matches:

bromide:

a compound of bromine and another element or a radical including some used as sedatives

bromine:

a deep red liquid corrosive chemical element that gives off an irritating vapor and occurs naturally only in combination

AAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEYEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Mountain Dew is death! Mountain Dew is death! Oh, the humanity!!!

Subject: More poison soda
   Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 16:20:58 -0500

From the same company that brought you "Mountain Dew is Poison", comes the latest in what could only be described as "Soda Wars".

This time the culprit is Orange Crush. Yes, I've got my spine, and yes, I've got my orange crush.

Quick look at some of the ingredients...

• "gum acacia"

  acacia:

  any of numerous leguminous trees or shrubs with round white or yellow flower clusters

• "natural flavors"
• the dreaded "brominated vegetable oil"
• and the real kicker, of which I have supplied a translation:

  "glycerol ester of wood rosin"

  As defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

  glycerol:

  glycerin

  glycerin:

  a sweet colorless syrupy liquid obtained from fats or synthesized and used as a solvent, moistener, and lubricant

  ester:

  an often fragrant organic compound formed by the reaction of an acid and an alcohol

  of wood:

  duh

  rosin:

  a hard brittle resin obtained especially form pine trees and used in varnishes and on violin bows

In other words, I'm drinking a soda with an acidic mixture of wood chips, vasoline, flower petals, and liquor. Mmmmmmmmmm good.

Not to mention Red # 40.