For the rest of the week, I would sit on the back porch, sipping it slowly while listening to my Blood Sugar Sex Majik cassette tape while admiring the moonlit bathed rolling waves. While the rest of my family was not impressed with this particular find, I enjoyed it. It was a pretty eye opening experience seeing rows of empty shelves and urban strife only a mile away from the idyllic island resort where everything was nothing but white beaches, scuba diving and Mai Tais. The first time I ever saw any melon flavored soda was when I found some Seagram’s Watermelon on an impromptu shopping trip to a local grocery store in St. It’s taken quite some time for watermelon soda to appeal to the American palate that has obediently crafted towards vanilla choices like Coke or Pepsi. It might sound like I’m being salty, but to be fair I’d love to sit in one of those just so I could watch a ton of old X Games footage and snort a few lines. And that’s what makes the latest flavor foray into Mtn Dew history such an odd choice: it’s pretty clear they are taking risks because they’ve finally exhausted every one of the last leftover ideas from the Dew pitch meetings.

I will be the first to admit there’s probably not a huge public demand for watermelon flavored soda and the release of Major Melon is really only having to compete against the likes of Watermelon Crush and ICP’s Mad Rhymin’ Melon Faygo.

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