Re: [A/S] Interesting info for the mouse thread.....

Of course not, Pepsi says Mountain Dew works better!

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:16 AM, John P Sargeant
<johnpsargeant@rogers.com>wrote:

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> So what you're saying Steve is that we should put Pepsi in our Long John
> Silver buckets instead of anti-freeze? <grin>
> Sarge
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> On Behalf Of Steve Pfiffner
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:20 AM
> To: AirstreamList@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [A/S] Interesting info for the mouse thread.....
>
> Pepsi Co., facing a lawsuit from a man who claims to have found a mouse in
> his Mountain Dew can, has an especially creative, if disgusting, defense:
> their soda would have dissolved a dead mouse before the man could have
> found it. An Illinois man sued Pepsi in 2009 after he claims he "spat out
> the
> soda to reveal a dead mouse," the *Madison County Record*
> reports<
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> www.madisonrecord.com/news/2406
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>
> He claims he sent the mouse to
> Pepsi<
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> -swig-of-mountain-dew-included-dead-mouse-suit-claims>,
>
> which then "destroyed" the remains after he allowed them to test it,
> according to his complaint. Most shudder-worthy, however, is that Pepsi's
> lawyers also found experts to testify, based on the state of the remains
> sent to them that, "the mouse would have dissolved in the soda had it been
> in the can from the time of its bottling until the day the plaintiff drank
> it," according to the *Record*. (It would have become a "jelly-like
>
> substance," according to Pepsi, adds
> LegalNewsline<
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> s/227856-mt.-dew-mouse-would-be-jelly-like-pepsi-argues>.)
>
> This seems like a winning-the-battle-while-surrendering-the-war kind of
> strategy that hinges on winning the argument that "our product is
> essentially a can of battery acid." The lawyers still appear to be
> lawyering behind the scenes but we cannot wait for this to come to trial
> (though we think a trial is about as likely as the chances of us "Doing the
> Dew" again).
>
> *The Atlantic Wire - Mon, Jan 2, 2012*
>
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