Seven men are credited for the "creation" of Mountain Dew as we know it today and this bottle bears the name of one of those men. The Fayetteville, NC Pepsi plant was only the third location in the country to produce Mountain Dew and this is their bottle. The Fayetteville Pepsi plant was run by the four Minges brothers - R.B., L.D., Charles and Herman Minges. Around 1955 the "First Family" of Pepsi bottlers - the Minges clan" took a real chance and purchased a bunch of machines called coolers. Coolers-refrigerated vending machines-had not been widely used and this batch would be the first ever seen in North Carolina. R.B. and L.D., the president and vice-president of the plant needed a variety of flavors to put in their new fangled cooling machines. When the deal for a 7-Up flavored drink called Bubble-Up fell through, they went with a new drink called
Mountain Dew, which at the time was also a 7-Up flavored drink.

R.B. (Richard B Minges or Dick) and L.D. (L. Dean Minges) put their names on that historic bottle as Dean & Dick. Although R.B. has stated that he thought they also produced a Dick and Dean bottle, none have ever been reported. The only two confirmed bottles produced by the Fayetteville plant are "by Dean and Dick" and simply "Dean and Dick".

The bottle is historically significant for several reasons. First, it bears the name of one of the seven men credited
with Mountain Dew's success-Dick Minges. Second, R.B. changed the wording in the frame to "Made with flavors specially blended with mountain water in the traditional
hillbilly style". Bottles produced at two other bottling plants prior to the Minges bottle carried the phrase "A special blend of mountain water ...". Later, attorneys would attempt to have R.B. remove the phrase "blended with mountain water", charging the phrase was deceptive but the Minges refused. Only Minges' bottles state "specially blended
with mountain water". Third, the hillbilly on the neck of the Minges bottle faces a different direction than on any other bottle of Mountain Dew, or as R.B. might have put it, everybody else has the hillbilly on the neck facing wrong. (By Dick Bridgforth)