Apparently the story goes that this 20-25 year old bottle was found in 2016(?), which went viral online, and Nintendo wound up sending the guy an unopened SNES anyway. (Plus a bunch of other stuff)

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My friend taught me how to find winners by just looking up at it at an angle. Many free cokes were had in my childhood. It was a sad day when they switched to redeemable codes.

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One time I bought a crunch bar in 1993. I won a free crunch bar. So I walked back into the store to redeem it almost immediately after walking out. THAT one won a free crunch bar. And again, I walked right back in and redeemed. THAT ONE TOO won a free chunch bar.

This went on for some time. After like the 6th one I stopped walking out, and just opened the wrapper at the counter. I ended up paying for 1 crunch bar, and walked away with 17.

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I’m sorry to hear about your diabetes.

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It’s like that episode of the Simpsons where Homer eats a box of 30 year old animal crackers and wins an African safari.

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Nintendo wound up sending the guy an unopened SNES

Of course they did, it says ‘92’, which clearly meant an expiry in 2092 starting as of, I don’t know, about the year 2000.

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Originally posted to Reddit (His cousin found it): https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2bltau/my_cousin_found_a_1992_mountain_dew_bottle_in_a/

Nintendo & Mountain Dew came through (An SNES, Wii U, and Mountain Dew swag): https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2dc93v/update_super_nintendo_mountain_dew_bottle/

Sorry for Reddit links. I don’t know how to bypass. Especially on mobile!

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