Mouse in Mountain Dew

Ronald Ball reported finding a mouse inside a Mountain Dew can in 2009, which became one of the most well-known instances of disgusting food contamination. If not for the accompanying lawsuit and the defense Pepsi, the manufacturer of Mountain Dew, decided to launch, this story would have just vanished into the distance along with dozens of other stories of a similar nature.

Ball's assertion wasn't being accepted at face value by Pepsi. In their defense, there have been numerous instances of con artists fabricating a hoax in an effort to steal money from a large organization in a similar manner. So, a corporation must exercise due caution in defending itself. Yet, in this instance, their defense just made matters worse. If they had actually lost a mouse, according to Pepsi, the Mountain Dew would have disintegrated it long before the man discovered it in his can. Their specialists predicted that everything would have changed beyond recognition in just 30 days, with the possible exception of the tail.

It is obvious that the testimony given at trial would have been spectacular and horrifying to witness, but alas, it never went that far. In 2012, Pepsi decided to settle the dispute outside of court, probably realizing that doing so would only make matters worse for themselves.

Surprisingly, someone did decide to try this as an experiment and left a dead mouse in a sealed Mountain Dew container for 30 days, a period of time much less than the can Ball had purchased had been sealed. And what transpired, do you know? That mouse had almost entirely disintegrated by the end of the month, just as Pepsi had predicted it would, indicating that Ball had probably played them for fools. Without a doubt, though, even if a mouse managed to sneak into your Mountain Dew, you would be able to tell because of the floating hair mats and the unexpected pink tint.