"The folklore is that I ate Pop Rocks, the exploding candies, and I drank a soda and my stomach blew up," he said, recalling a long-ago urban legend. One day in the late 1970s, his mother summoned ...

First hitting store shelves in the 1970s, Pop Rocks literally explode in your mouth. What gives these iconic crackling ...

That year, the grist being run through the rumor mill included the sad tale of a misadventuring tot who had gulped soda and ingested Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy known for producing a fizzling ...

Contrary to the hysteria from kids and parents, there’s never been a known case of death by Pop Rocks. That includes when it's mixed with Coke (sorry Mikey truthers). Have you got a Big Question ...

then curl the paper and blow the Pop Rocks onto the side of the cake.) 4. To assemble the decorations, place the wax soda bottles on skewers and cover each skewer with a soda straw. Arrange the ...

That is, until I saw the geyser-like effects of Mint Mentos when mixed with Diet Coke. This was no Pop Rocks tickling of the tongue. This stuff was seriously combustible, sometimes blowing brown ...