Fruit Quake was a Mountain Dew flavor first released in the Holiday season of 2022 for a limited time in the United States.
Description[]
Fruit Quake was a Fruitcake flavor of Mountain Dew and had a dark red look with a similar theme to Mountain Dew's other Christmas flavors.
Tagline[]
Its tagline was "DEW with a Blast of Artificial Fruitcake Flavor."
History[]
On April 28th, 2022, PepsiCo filed a trademark for Fruit Quake titled "MTN DEW FRUIT QUAKE."
On May 2nd, 2022, in a now-deleted r/MountainDew Reddit post, a user posted an image as the user was on in a survey app for potential products to release on store shelves. This Reddit post is not the first post on it, as it uses a Facebook post leaking Fruit Quake as a source.
It was officially released in stores on November 1st, 2022 throughout the United States for a limited time in 12-packs and 20-ounce bottles until December 31st, the end of Holiday 2022.
Trivia[]
- This flavor was the fourth Holiday-themed flavor to release, the first being Holiday Brew (2017), the second being Merry Mash-Up (2018 - 2020), the third being Gingerbread Snap'd (2021), and the fifth being Cobra Cane (2023).
- In August 2022, on a Facebook post, a PepsiCo intern posted a photograph of a test bottle of Fruit Quake. The picture itself reveals this flavor's number to be #14084.