![]() ![]() “They thought they would get the same effects as alcohol, but they weren’t aware of how toxic it was.” As the body processes methanol, it creates byproducts that acidify the blood and can cause blindness, seizures and eventually death. “They thought they knew what it was, that it was a substitute for alcohol,” Tennessee Poison Center medical director Donna Seger tells Nicole Young of the Robertson County Times. Two were hospitalized, treated and released. "Dewshine" recently cropped up in the headlines for a tragic reason-the name also stands for a combination of the Hartman's original whiskey chaser mixed with a methanol-based racing fuel, which may have caused the deaths of two Tennessee teens.Ĭhandler Friedman and Steve Almasy report for CNN that four teenage boys mixed the drink at a party. The product incorporates an old-fashioned-looking label, and also brings back Mountain Dew's original mascot, Willy the Hillbilly, along with the memorable tagline, " It'll tickle yore innards." Mountain Dew is now a subsidiary of PepsiCo, and last year the company decided to stir up nostalgia for the soda's origins with Mountain Dew's "DEWshine," a clear version of the citrus-flavored drink sweetened with cane sugar rather than corn syrup. To play up the intended use of the drink, they dubbed their drink, "Mountain Dew." ![]() The caffeinated, florescent-yellow soda's name does make sense, when you consider its origin story: Brothers Barney and Ally Hartman began bottling a lemon-lime soda as a whiskey chaser in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1932, writes Doug Mason for Knoxnews.
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