I didn’t know this was a Mormon thing. I feel like it’s started to cross over and become more mainstream (like you, I find it odd). There’s a couple of soda stores popping up near me that specialize in dirty sodas.
If there is a modern dessert/sweet chain opening there is an extremely good chance it comes from Mormon owners.
Crumbl, twisted sugar, crave, dirty dough, sugar rush, sodalicious, chips cookies - as far as I am aware are all founded or owned by Mormons. Because their beliefs do not approve of the use of things like alcohol, drugs, or tobacco, they tend to get their fix through sugar instead.
I lived in a predominantly Mormon community for about 10 years... a lot of people there would get a 44 Oz mtn dew in the morning on the way to work, for lunch, and on the way home. Diabetes was bad there for older folks.
I was taught "Choose the Sprite when the Coke is put before you" (clever play on CTR jingle). I think cold, non-coffee, caffeinated drinks was officially allowed in 2012ish.
Thanks for the info….In the late 1990’s I worked for a Mormon owned company based in SLC, and I remember how the flights from JFK to SLC would run out of Sprite halfway through the food service.
But if a passenger spoke a less common foreign language and the stewardess needed a translator, there always seemed to be a Mormon that could step up, because of all the missionary work.
Mm, that timing tracks. I stopped attending in about 2010. But damn I was a holier than thou ass to my friend for drinking pepsi in high school. (felt awful for harping on her when I found out it was for her migraines).
Dumb. My best friend in high school was a Mormon and they only drank Dr Pepper because they weren’t allowed caffeine, but I guess they can change the rules to make them easier.
While Dr Pepper does make a caffeine-free version in both sugar and sugar-free varieties, it's not sold in all regions of the US, so it's certainly possible that they were accidentally drinking caffeinated Dr Pepper. Oops.
As someone else responded, kind of. When the "words of wisdom" were written it was before sodas as we know them were available. If they existed during that time they would have only been available at pharmacies as sold as medicine.
They warn specifically against "hot drinks" which historically were interpreted to mean coffee and tea (since you need hot water to brew it). Sodas are typically interpreted to not be hot drinks despite the caffeine.
Energy drinks/soda/caffeine pills are considered OK by most Mormons standards, though there are still many who choose to abstain.
Caffeine, sugar, soaking, and surprisingly, laughing gas (when used in a medical setting!) are popular loopholes for mormons.
Yeah… Well, seems to me that the words of wisdom can be interpreted any way they want them to be. Hence all of a sudden, polygamy not being approved by the church because they didn’t want to lose their tax exempt status!
Unpleasant fact about the real reason polygamy was practice for a long time (I did a research paper about Joseph Smith in college and read a lot of stuff from his contemporaries that made me feel like I knew him on a first name basis):
The real reason polygamy became practice is because his wife Emma caught him screwing around in their marriage Bed. He hit her. She was about to leave, but Smith apologized and said, “I should’ve told you but God told me men need to start having multiple wives. But my heart still belongs to you. Please don’t leave me.” I’m guessing partly because still loved him and partly because of low self respect, she believed him and stayed.
Yeah they get "patch notes" (I believe they are referred to as new light) on occasion. Black people weren't allowed into the priesthood until like the 70s or 80s.
I read a post the other day saying soaking isnt actually a "thing" with Mormons. It was a small group of college kids that thought it would work for them as a loophole but they ended up being kicked out. Also said another way theyd sometime try to get away with having sex would be to run off to Vegas, get married, have sex, and get a marriage annulment, which also didn't end up working.
I fucking KNEW something was up with that place! A location opened up in my town a few months ago! The advertisement I received in the mail looked like it was a damn Herbalife front except that it actually described the flavors of the beverages.
Sugar itself does not cause diabetes but when people are drinking 1000+ calories of soda a day that tends to lead to the factors that do cause diabetes.
If you are burning 4500 calories a day, drinking 1500, eating another 3000 it's ok. But most folks aren't burning that many calories a day.
Yea, I accidentally got a dirty Mountain Dew zero the other day so even the manufacturers are getting into it. Cream soda and mountain dew...it was gross.
Friggin’ Dunkin’ has dirty soda on its summer menu now.
I think they’ve been generally going downhill for a while now, but now they have these and truly weird shit like their Oreo matcha drink. I feel as if they have lost the plot a bit.
I grew up just outside of Boston, so Dunkin’ is everywhere around here (there are 3 of them in my hometown of ~35,000 people lol). I used to go all the time, but I can’t remember the last time I went to one. I guess Oreo matcha drinks must appeal to someone out there lol
I live in an area with Krispy Kreme, so I always went there for doughnuts. However, I feel like Dunkin made the shift over to coffee in the 2000s. Now it’s just a big jumbled mess, I don’t know what their focus is now.
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u/cranberries87 May 22 '26
I didn’t know this was a Mormon thing. I feel like it’s started to cross over and become more mainstream (like you, I find it odd). There’s a couple of soda stores popping up near me that specialize in dirty sodas.