Knives out. “Diet Mountain Dew is such a cursed beverage,” tweeted author and comic Dan Sheehan. “Mountain Dew is a carbonated bacchanal, a celebration of excess and mankind’s hubris.

Vance, Walz and the bipartisan brew of Diet Mountain Dew As a soda choice, Mountain Dew appeals to a wilder sort. But Diet Mountain Dew? Here, it gets a little complicated.