Most soft drinks will dissolve a mouse into a jelly-like pulp in less than a month.
Defending itself from a lawsuit claiming that an Illinois man found a dead mouse inside a can of Mountain Dew, PepsiCo contends that a rodent would have disintegrated and been transformed into a jelly-like substance between the time of the soft drink’s bottling and the day the plaintiff reportedly purchased the soda from a vending machine at his office.
PepsiCo filed an affidavit from Lawrence McGill, a veterinarian who is familiar with the effects an acidic fluid, such as common soda drinks including Mountain Dew, will have on mice and other animals.
According to McGill, if a mouse is submerged in Mountain Dew between four and seven days, the rodent will have no calcium in its bones and bony structures. During those days of soft drink immersion, the mouse’s abdominal structure will rupture. Additionally, its cranial cavity (head) is also likely to rupture within that time period.
After 30 days exposure to Mountain Dew, all of the mouse’s structures would have disintegrated to the point that it would not be recognizable. In fact, the mouse will have been transformed into a jelly-like substance.
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