MOUNTAIN DEW CAKE AND TOPPING
1 box lemon cake mix
1 box instant lemon pudding
1 c. oil
4 whole eggs
1 can Mountain Dew
Mix all ingredients. Pour into a greased oblong pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes.
TOPPING:
1 lg. can crushed pineapple
1 (3 oz.) can coconut
2 c. sugar
4 egg yolks
1 stick butter
3 tbsp. cornstarch
Cook for 5 minutes until it comes to a boil. Add coconut and cook until it thickens. Pour on cooled cake.
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Magic Mountain Dew recipe
Ingredients
1 1/2 oz AbsolutŪ Citron vodka
1 1/2 oz triple sec
3 oz Mountain DewŪ citrus soda
Method
Pour the Absolut Citron vodka and triple sec into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, and strain into a highball glass filled with ice cubes. Top with mountain dew, stir briefly and serve.
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Mountain Dew Salad
1 package JELL-O orange gelatin -- (4-serving)
1 package JELL-O lemon gelatin--(4-serving)
1 1/4 cups boiling water
2 1/2 cups Diet Mountain Dew * (20 oz. bottle)
1 cup crushed pineapple -- (1- 8-oz. can) undrained
1 cup mandarin oranges -- (1- 11-oz. can) rinsed and drained
2 cups diced bananas -- (2 medium)
1 package JELL-O sugar-free instant -- (4-serving) vanilla pudding mix
2/3 cup Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk Powder
1 package Philadelphia Fat-Free Cream -- (8-oz. ) Cheese
1 cup Cool Whip Free
1 teaspoon coconut extract
1/2 cup miniature marshmallows
2 tablespoons flaked coconut
In large bowl, combine dry orange and lemon gelatins. Add boiling water. Mix
well to dissolve gelatin. Stir in 1 cup Diet Mountain Dew. Add undrained
pineapple, mandarin oranges, and bananas Mix well to combine. Pour mixture
into an 8-by8- inch dish. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours or until firm. In
medium bowl, combine dry pudding mix and dry milk powder. Add remaining 1
1/3 cups Diet Mountain Dew. Mix well using a wire whisk. Evenly spread
mixture over firm gelatin mixture. Refrigerate while preparing topping. In
medium bowl, stir cream cheese with spoon until soft. Add Cool Whip Free and
coconut extract. Mix gently to combine. Fold in marshmallows. Spread topping
mixture evenly over pudding layer. Sprinkle coconut evenly over top.
Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Cut into 8 servings.
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Mountain Dew Recipe
Ingredients
1/2 glass Draft Beer
1/2 glass 7-Up
1 oz Midori Melon Liqueur
Mixing Instruction
Fill a beer glass half-way with beer. Fill the other half with 7-up. (If you have the patience, pour a little of one, then a little of the other, until the glass is full.)Fill a shot glass with melon liqueur. Drop the entire shot glass into the glass of beer. Immediately consume the entire pint of beer with the shot glass still inside.
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Mountain Brew
(5 gallons/19 L, extract with soda pop)
OG = 1.046 FG = 1.006 IBU = 19 SRM = 4 ABV = 5.2%
Jason Pavento wanted to combine his two favorite beverages, homebrew and Mountain Dew. His creation Mountain Brew does just that. Weve fiddled with his procedures a bit, based on our own experimentation, but the ingredients are the same as his original recipe. The beer turns out light and crisp, with some aroma, but not much flavor from the Mountain Dew. And, in case youre wondering, neither the preservatives or the caffeine seem to bother the yeast. Mountain Brew is also a very easy to make. So, to mangle a phrase from their ads just brew it!
Ingredients
4.0 lbs. (1.8 kg) Muntons Extra Light dried malt extract
2.3 gallons (8.7 L) Mountain Dew
(24 12-oz. cans of the soda)
4.5 AAU Northern Brewer hops (45 mins)
(0.5 oz./14 g of 9% alpha acids)
2.25 AAU Northern Brewer hops (15 mins)
(0.25 oz./7 g of 9% alpha acids)
1/2 tsp Irish moss
1/4 tsp yeast nutrients
Danstar Manchester yeast
1.0 cup corn sugar (for priming)
Step by step
Pour Mountain Dew into a clean, sanitized brew bucket. (The soda should not have anything growing in it, so theres no need to boil. You may want to wipe the lips of the cans with a paper towel soaked in sanitizing solution, though. Let it sit in the bucket (covered) as you boil the wort so the level of carbonation will decrease.) Bring 2.5 gallons (9.5 L) of water to a boil and stir in malt extract. Boil for 60 minutes, adding hops at the times indicated in the recipe. Add Irish moss with 15 minutes left in the boil. Cool wort and pour into Mountain Brew. (Watch for excessive foaming.) Top up to 5 gallons (19 L) with water. Aerate (again, watching for excessive foaming) and pitch yeast. Ferment at 68 °F (20 °C) for 1 week. Rack to secondary and age for 2 weeks, Bottle with corn sugar.
All-grain option:
Next time you make a light all-grain beer, such as a Kölsch, cream ale or light pale ale, make an extra 2.5 gallons (9.5 L) of wort. Combine 2.5 gallons (9.5 L) cooled wort with Mt. Dew and water to make 5 gallons (19 L).
(Adapted from Reader Recipe by Jason Pavento, found in Homebrew Nation, March-April 2002, p. 8.)
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How does caffeine taste?
Caffeine is very bitter. Barq's Root Beer contains caffeine and the company says that it has "12.78mg per 6oz" and that they "add it as a flavouring agent for the sharp bitterness"
Caffeine and your Health
Important: This information was excerpted from several sources, no claims are made to its accuracy. The FAQ mantainer is not a medical doctor and cannot vouch for the accuracy of this information.
1.
Caffeine Withdrawal: Procedures and Symptoms.
How to cut caffeine intake?
Most people report a very good success ratio by cutting down caffeine intake at the rate of 1/2 cup of coffee a day. This is known as Caffeine Fading. Alternatively you might try reducing coffee intake in discrete steps of two-five cups of coffee less per week (depending on how high is your initial intake). If you are drinking more than 10 cups of coffee a day, you should seriously consider cutting down.
The best way to proceed is to consume caffeine regularly for a week, while keeping a precise log of the times and amounts of caffeine intake (remember that chocolate, tea, soda beverages and many headache pills contain caffeine as well as coffee). At the end of the week proceed to reduce your coffee intake at the rate recommended above. Remember to have substitutes available for drinking: if you are not going to have a hot cup of coffee at your 10 minute break, you might consider having hot chocolate or herbal tea, but NOT decaff, since decaff has also been shown to be addictive. This should take you through the works without much problem.
Some other people quit cold turkey. Withdrawal symptoms are quite nasty this way (see section below) but they can usually be countered with lots of sleep and exercise. Many people report being able to stop drinking caffeine almost cold-turkey while on holidays on the beach. If quitting cold turkey is proving too hard even in the beach, drinking a coke might help.
What are the symptoms of caffeine withdrawal?
Regular caffeine consumption reduces sensitivity to caffeine. When caffeine intake is reduced, the body becomes oversensitive to adenosine. In response to this oversensitiveness, blood pressure drops dramatically, causing an excess of blood in the head (though not necessarily on the brain), leading to a headache.
This headache, well known among coffee drinkers, usually lasts from one to five days, and can be alleviated with analgesics such as aspirin. It is also alleviated with caffeine intake (in fact several analgesics contain caffeine dosages).
Often, people who are reducing caffeine intake report being irritable, unable to work, nervous, restless, and feeling sleepy, as well as having a headache. In extreme cases, nausea and vomiting has also been reported.
References.
Caffeine and Health. J. E. James, Academic Press, 1991. Progress in Clinical and Biological Research Volume 158. G. A. Spiller, Ed. Alan R. Liss Inc, 1984.
What happens when you overdose?
From Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-3-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987):
Caffeine-Induced Organic Mental Disorder 305.90 Caffeine Intoxication
1. Recent consumption of caffeine, usually in excess of 250 mg.
2. At least five of the following signs:
1. restlessness
2. nervousness
3. excitement
4. insomnia
5. flushed face
6. diuresis
7. gastrointestinal disturbance
8. muscle twitching
9. rambling flow of thought and speech
10. tachycardia or cardiac arrhythmia
11. periods of inexhaustibility
12. psychomotor agitation
3. Not due to any physical or other mental disorder, such as an Anxiety Disorder.
Basically, overdosing on caffeine will probably be very very unpleasant but not kill or deliver permanent damage. However, People do die from it.
Toxic dose
The LD_50 of caffeine (that is the lethal dosage reported to kill 50% of the population) is estimated at 10 grams for oral administration. As it is usually the case, lethal dosage varies from individual to individual according to weight. Ingestion of 150mg/kg of caffeine seems to be the LD_50 for all people. That is, people weighting 50 kilos have an LD_50 of approx. 7.5 grams, people weighting 80 kilos have an LD_50 of about 12 grams.
In cups of coffee the LD_50 varies from 50 to 200 cups of coffee or about 50 vivarins (200mg each).
One exceptional case documents survival after ingesting 24 grams. The minimum lethal dose ever reported was 3.2 grams intravenously, this does not represent the oral MLD (minimum lethal dose).
In small children ingestion of 35 mg/kg can lead to moderate toxicity. The amount of caffeine in an average cup of coffee is 50 - 200 mg. Infants metabolize caffeine very slowly.
Symptoms
* Acute caffeine poisoning gives early symptoms of anorexia, tremor, and restlessness. Followed by nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, and confusion. Serious intoxication may cause delirium, seizures, supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmias, hypokalemia, and hyperglycemia.
* Chronic high-dose caffeine intake can lead to nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching, insomnia, palpitations and hyperreflexia. For blood testing, cross-reaction with theophylline assays will detect toxic amounts. (Method IA) Blood concentration of 1-10 mg/L is normal in coffee drinkers, while 80 mg/L has been associated with death.
Treatment
* Emergency Measures
o Maintain the airway and assist ventilation. (See Appendix A)
o Treat seizures & hypotension if they occur.
o Hypokalemia usually goes away by itself.
o Monitor Vital Signs.
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* Specific drugs & antidotes. Beta blockers effectively reverse cardiotoxic effects mediated by excessive beta-adrenergic stimulation. Treat hypotension or tachyarrhythmias with intravenous propanolol, .01 - .02 mg/kg. , or esmolol, .05 mg/kg , carefully titrated with low doses. Esmolol is preferred because of its short half life and low cardioselectivity.
* Decontamination
o Induce vomiting or perform gastric lavage.
o Administer activated charcoal and cathartic.
o Gut emptying is probably not needed if 1 2 are performed promptly.
Appendix A
Performing airway assistance.
1. If no neck injury is suspected, place in the "Sniffing" position by tilting the head back and extending the front of the neck.
2. Apply the "Jaw Thrust" to move the tongue out of the way without flexing the neck: Place thumb fingers from both hands under the back of the jaw and thrust the jaw forward so that the chin sticks out. This should also hurt the patient, allowing you to judge depth of coma. 
3. Tilt the head to the side to allow vomit and snot to drain out.
From conversations on alt.drugs.caffeine:
The toxic dose is going to vary from person to person, depending primarily on built-up tolerance. A couple people report swallowing 10 to 13 vivarin and ending up in the hospital with their stomaches pumped, while a few say they've taken that many and barely stayed awake.
A symptom lacking in the clinical manual but reported by at least two people on the net is a loss of motor ability: inability to move, speak, or even blink. The experience is consistently described as very unpleasant and not fun at all, even by those very familiar with caffeine nausea and headaches.
Hmmmmm... 
