Voo Dew 666

Voo Dew 6
Mountain Dew (2024)
For the sixth consecutive year, Mountain Dew has released a special Voo Dew mystery flavor of their product.

The 2024 edition of Voo Dew is available both in regular and in zero sugar versions, and it's available in individual 20 oz bottles and in a 12 pack of cans.

I've been doing a taste test on these since they started releasing them in 2019.  I didn't expect that they'd be doing it six years later.  Here are my guesses on the mystery flavor for each year based.  These are based on the most recent time I tried each of them, which was two years ago for Voo Dew 1-3 which were re-released in a box called The Ghost Of Voo Dew Past that had to be ordered directly from the company.  Click on the years in the parenthesis below for my initial taste test when each of them first came out.

• Voo Dew 1 (2019): Fruity Pebbles
• Voo Dew 2 (2020): Gummy Bears with a creme base
• Voo Dew 3 (2021): Blue Raspberry Blow Pop
• Voo Dew 4 (2022): Grapefruit Flavored Sour Patch Kids
• Voo Dew 5 (2023): Juicyfruit Gum

So, what have we got this year...

I've had both the full sugar and zero sugar versions of Voo Dew 6, and to me, it tastes like the original pink flavor of Bubble Yum Bubble Gum.  It's not bad... much better than the bubble gum soda that they briefly made when I was a kid, but Voo Dew 2 is still my favorite one that they've come up with so far.

I Saw A Werewolf With A Peanut Butter Cup In His Hand...

Reese's Werewolf Tracks
Hershey (2024)
For the past few years, the Franken-Cup has been the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup offering for the Halloween season.  They're mixing it up a little bit this year with Werewolf Tracks.

I'm guessing that the vanilla flavored cream is supposed to make the top of the Werewolf Tracks cups look like a full moon, which is kind of cool.  However, like the Franken-Cups that came before them, these didn't really taste too much different than a regular peanut butter cup to me.

You Forget Many Things In Life, But You Never Forget Kindness

White Bird
Lionsgate (2024)
I haven't been to a Mystery Movie Monday in a while, but I'm very glad that I didn't miss this one.

I've never heard of White Bird before, so I had no idea what kind of movie it was going to be.  I learned when I got home that it's a sequel to a 2017 film called Wonder which I had also never heard of.  I'm going to have to find it because if it's half as good as White Bird, it's going to be incredible.

This movie really deserves more than a Mystery Movie Monday release.  It deserves the widest distribution possible.  It's a beautiful story about a young Jewish girl who lives through Nazi-occupied France during World War II, as she in the present day tells the story to her grandson, who is a troubled teenager who feels that the best he can do is to fit in and avoid being mean or kind to others.

I really can't say enough good things about this movie.  It's absolutely beautiful.  Go see it if you can.

Happy Halloween Season

October Calendar
Hallmark (1957)
This page from the 1957 Hallmark calendar was shared by Hauntorama a couple of months ago.  October 1st falls on a Tuesday this year so this will still work for 2024, though I'm not sure that HR would approve of you printing it for your desk.