That's wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to start.
I've toured the local Pepsi bottling plants and it was one of the cleanest places I've ever been, right up there with the Budweiser brewery and bottle plant I toured.
I'm not saying it's not possible, but highly unlikely.
I would think a mouse would dissolve in Mountain Dew, have you ever read the ingredients? Also think about how you can use Coke to dissolve rust on metal.
The idea that the reporter was surprised it could turn a mouse into jelly baffled me also.

I guess my point was that Pepsico argues that there could not possibly have been a mouse in a can of our "soft drink" -
because if there were such a foreign object in the can, the ingredients we so lovingly put there would dissolve it into a mass of unrecognizable goo, and you likely would have just drank the mouse without realizing it...

Coke, Pepsi, and the like, are well known "magic solvents" for taking blood stains off the highway, dissolving forks, cleaning battery posts, etc.

I guess I just never expected them to use that in a defense of it's quality of drinkability...

Yes! Finally the inspiration I needed to stop drinking a 12 pack of Diet Mountain Dew a day. Thanks for sharing MoneyMagnetMagnate! Really, though? Was Pepsi's argument that the mouse would have dissovled? I am going to go throw up now...

Gave up all soda over 15 years ago.

Water, unsweetened tea and coffee no sugar.

I don't drink the stuff either - any of it other than maybe once or twice a year. Either a creme soda, root beer, or Vernors. The stuff is scary. I figure I can live through one every six months or so, but try to get brands that don't have fake sugar in them. Real sugar is bad enough, the fake stuff will kill you, literally.