Mountain Dew Dissolves Rodents? Apparently So.

There’s a lot of hardcore Mountain Dew drinkers out there, and I praise them. Every time I man up to drink a can of the radioactive looking substance, I’m filled with instant regret as it rips out the lining of my stomach and sends me into a fetal position. Recently, a man by the name of Ronald Ball of Wisconsin filed a $50,000 lawsuit against PepsiCo after cracking open a can and finding a mouse inside!

He claimed that he was so mortified by the scene that it made him vomit. How did PepsiCo react after Ball sent in the evidence? They were not shocked by the matter in the least bit, and tried to calm Ball down by saying, “the acid used when the drink was bottled would’ve caused the rodent to transform into a ‘jelly-like’ substance.” I guess finding flubber in your drink is a little less off putting than a dead mouse…I guess

[via huffingtonpost.com]

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