POP ROCKS

Soooooo remember these?!





















My co-worker actually found these recently! She came into my office with her mouth just popping away... i LOVED pop rocks... and I had no idea they were still being manufactured!

Now, of course, this led to the question of "how does that happen!?"

Well, here is a bit of Pop Rock history as passed on by: http://www.poprockscandy.com/history.html

*Pop Rocks were developed in 1956

*Introduced to the market in 1975

*Tiny air pockets of carbonation (CO2) are released when melted in your mouth and has a mild "crackling" sensation and "popping" noise.

*The original flavors were Orange, Cherry and Grape.

*The rumor that mixing the candy with carbonated drinks would cause the stomach to explode, was the popular buzz.

*The company tried to explain the rumor by taking out full-page ads in 45 major publications, to explain to all that Pop Rocks generate less gas than half a can of soda and ingesting them could induce nothing worse in the human body than a hearty, non-life-threatening belch.

*1983, Pop Rocks were taken off the market.

*AND NOW THEY'RE BACK!

now you know :)