At the beginning of the test, we all had our favorite storage medium, but weren't sure if it actually effected the taste or not. I also wish that I'd been able to find Mountain Dew Throwback in a plastic bottle. Well, now we're a little closer to our prediction, but you can see that the small sample size does some interesting things to the bottom and middle ranked contenders. With five tasters, the best possible score is 5, worst is 60. If a taster ranked it as their number one pick, it gets one point, if they ranked it their worst, it gets 12 points. Like in golf, a low score is better here. Let's assign points to each product, then add the points together, and see if that gets us some more useful data. And yet, it still only ranked dead last on one taster's list. A few moments later most of us were able to identify it as diet. (It's that nasty aspartame aftertaste.) We all commented that it was very different from all the other samples, but not bad. The weirdest result is that diet Mountain Dew came out about in the middle of the pack.
Also, we're not trained tasting scientists, just average Mountain Dew fans. Also, the sample size for this study is very small, and taste is a subjective thing too. Or, possibly the imitators do a really good job. This is probably due to us drinking cheap pop too often. But, which one was worst? At first glance, everything but the winner is all over the board.
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