In addition to my cereal hounding, I also enjoy trying any and all new kids of pop (alias soda or what have you) that i see on the shelves.

Today's entry is MOUNTAIN DEW REVOLUTION, a pale, pastel blue form of Mountain Dew, described on the bottle as "DEW infused with wild berry fruit flavor and ginseng."

I don't care much about the ginseng; I've never had much reaction to the stuff. Early in high school I was taking ginseng capsules in the morning in an effort to get some more energy, but I noticed no difference.

Still, while I don't expect to get super powers from this beverage, I WILL say that it's tasty. It's an odd thing - it's as close as I've tasted to a blueberry soda; the taste reminds me of nothing so much as Square Star Shooters, these square lollipops I used to get at the concession stand after little league games that tasted like blueberry pie. Yet, at the same time, it still tastes like a mountain dew, making it that RARE name brand spinoff that actually does seem like a variation on the original, not just a different product with the same logo somewhere on the bottle.

This doesn't knock me out the way, say, black cherry vanilla coke did, or that spiced pepsi from a couple of holiday seasons ago, but it's good stuff. I think it'll taste better out of a can than it does out of a bottle, too, but that's just me. When you have to pick between a can or a bottle, the can will taste better. There's nothing about a can of pop I don't like - I like the weight of it in my hand, the feeling and the sound of popping the top, the condensation on a cold one...everything. Getting stuff out of a fountain is still usually better yet, but it doesn't have that FEEL, y'know?