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To: BW who wrote (9081)9/2/2002 5:20:42 PM
From: Bucky Katt  Read Replies (1) of 48461
 
BTW, regarding the Mountain Dew Southern 500, do you know where, why & how Mountain Dew came about, and it's tie in with the original rednecks running shine with "stock"-cars?

Ok, the answer is it was originally made as a mixer for moonshine....way back when, somewhere in Tenn.
I ain't makin' this up>

In the early 1940's, two brothers, Ally and Barney Hartman, were bottling a lithiated-lemon ("7-up" flavor) drink as a personal mixer for hard-liquor. They jokingly called the drink "Mountain Dew" after Tennessee Mountain Moonshine.

mountaindewbottles.com

In the Crossville/Cumberland County area the local distillation is known as White lighting, and it can either be very good or very nasty, depending....
Hence, the need for a reliable mixer...
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