Mountain Dew Pitch Black

[Fred Jauss]

Glutton for punishment that I am, I picked up a bottle of Pitch Black at the grocery store this weekend. My wife asked how it was after I tried it, and I said, "It was . . . interesting."

I didn't think it was quite as bad as Dimetapp or other grape cough syrups, but my first impression was that it tasted like grape soda with a Mountain Dew base.

Probably not a probable repeat purchase like Pepsi Edge, but not horrifically bad either.

[Jim Cotter]

I think Pepsi missed the boat with Pitch Black. I would have introduced it for

Halloween , wherein it could be served in cheap plastic goblets at midnight for the purposes of birthing a moonchild.....Or how about the Goth market? They could change the name to 55 chevy crankcase and sell it in cans?

[jsolomon]

At the U today I saw Mountain Dew Pitch Black II "A blast of grape flavor with a SOUR BITE".

It is definitely sour.

[jhlurie]

A soda with a roman numeral? Wow.

[jsolomon]

They're still teaching that in grade school, right? Of course, it's not like it's Mountain Dew Pitch Black MCMMLXXXVII

Yet, that is. This also says "limited edition". Probably using up a batch of cheap syrup.

[VenerableBede]

pepsi says that pitch black was highly successful. that being said, i barely got through one 16 oz. bottle of it last year- course, it also means fall is approaching, and i love me some fall.

Edited August 25, 2005 by VenerableBede (log)

[Toliver]

It's baaaaaaaack.

Yesterday I bought a small bottle of the stuff as an impulse buy at the grocery store checkout counter.

I'll give it a try this weekend.

edited to add: I was mistaken. It's not Pitch Black. It's Pitch Black II. The label mentions the grape flavor but now it has a "sour bite" to it. Is this a good thing?

Edited September 21, 2005 by Toliver (log)

[Toliver]

So I tried it and can't give it a thumbs up.

It did taste a little like grape flavoring but with the "sour bite" my tastebuds kept expecting it to be apple, go figure. It reminded me a lot of those sweet but "sour" candies with that very fake tartness, thanks to whatever chemicals they put in it. After a while, that tartness was omnipresent and any grape flavor definitely took a backseat. But then I'm not their target audience, am I?

It stains the drinking glass quite nicely, too.

[Jason Perlow]

Actually as I understand its a reformulation of Pitch Black, not the original one they used. The "sour bite" thing is new. I haven't tried the new one yet.

[petite tête de chou]

There's a pretty funny review of Pitch Black II here.

[Jason Perlow]

So I've decided that after a 12 pack of the stuff, I find it to be overtly juvenile in its formulation. I hope it crashes and burns.