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Mountain Dew Trivia.....

In the early 40's, Ally & Barney Hartman developed a lithiated lemon-lime drink as a mixer for hard liquor. As a joke on Tennessee Mountain Moonshine, these two brothers from Knoxville called their soda Mountain Dew. In 1948, they registered the trademark and began marketing the mixer. By the late 50's, the drink still only had local popularity. Then Bill Jones, a former fruit flavor salesman, tinkered with the formula, adding some orange juice and other ingredients. Sales spiked almost immediately. In 1964, Pepsi bought Good Ole' Mountain Dew.

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