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Mountain Dew. Has more caffeine than coffee.
Touche
I never got into that in my teen years because we had Jolt Cola - branded as "all the sugar and twice the caffeine"
Edit: Now I wonder if people were going into bars back then and ordering a Jack and Jolt, thereby far preceding the Red Bull and vodka.
I remember those, Red Bull. Drank a few, but didn't notice any side effects.
Speaking of the Red Bull, one of my ex-girlfriends categorized them perfectly: "It looks and tastes like a diuretic's piss." And her father was a MD who specialized in diabetes.
Does it? Mountain dew has like 50-60mg of caffeine per 12 oz can, where an average 8oz cup of coffee can have somewhere in the 75-100mg range. A standard double shot espresso drink will have anywhere from 75-150mg.
Also, I don't think the caffeine content is the thing to worry about at any rate, I'm more concerned with the 46g of sugar per can.
Fwiw... Mt Dew Zero has 68mg/12oz. I think regular and diet are 55ish.
I may be wrong, and talking out of my ass, but I know it has a lot of caffeine.
Anecdote warning: I, due to my autism, get fixated on certain foods, hobbies, whatever, etc. On a job I worked, I decided I liked Mountain Dew for 4 or 5 days, and "wore it out" in American Southern parlance, and then abandoned it. A day later, I noticed I got a headache around 2 PM everyday, for 2 or 3 days.
I said to my coworker in the truck "I don't know what's wrong with me, do I have a brain tumor or am I about to have a stroke?"
She said "It's those fucking Mountain Dews you drank for days. They're loaded with caffeine."
I've avoided them since. But the Code Red Mountain Dews are delicious.