Comments on: Epic Win: Pop Rocks

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:47:16 +0000

the big problem with these is that they were made of nuclear waste…didn’t you know? just kidding…

By: Tylonfoxx

Tylonfoxx — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:49:10 +0000

it does, but the fun is in all the popping and crackling

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:55:43 +0000

You can still find these in some stores. I once found them at a Carnival Shoes store, I bought as many as I could.

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:58:51 +0000

Check convenience stores. That’s where I get my fix, and they have them two for a dollar. YUM! I love when you get that random exploding one.

By: Deson

Deson — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:44:27 +0000

I don’t know if this has been covered or not but you can order them online.

http://www.poprockscandy.com/

By: ts

ts — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:06:36 +0000

that’s actually kinda genius

By: ts

ts — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:05:49 +0000

i think he meant for real

By: VAdame

VAdame — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:08:02 +0000

Oops, should be “liked” Life Cereal. Proofreading Fail.

By: VAdame

VAdame — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 19:05:49 +0000

Not just “some kid” — MIKEY, the kid who like Life Cereal!

By: Mindy

Mindy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:54:35 +0000

When I had it the waitress asked if I wanted to add the pop rocks in or if she could do it. I told her go ahead, I didnt know they would fly every where! But it was totally awesome to see everyone turn and look like what the hell was that! lol

By: Tate

Tate — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:59:46 +0000

LOL…ChalesTrippy =) The “SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE” is just a picture of Charles holding the pop rocks and coke. It is in the middle of the video so that it can be used as a thumbnail for the video.
We have pop rocks at the dollar store in my town, they are fun

By: Cam

Cam — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:00:36 +0000

I think you can get them from corner shops…Only thing about Muslims is that they can get their hands on some pretty old sweets… Like Wham bars all sorts of crap… If your from the U.K your bound to see one round the corner they are practically flooded round every corner…

By: Bri?

Bri? — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:57:50 +0000

I hate Charles Trippy.

By: Avidan The Sane

Avidan The Sane — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:39:37 +0000

These are not off the market anywhere. my friends all over use, britain, and germany can get them. and they have the shelf life of your average lemming, fruit flies are an exaggeration. they actually last over a month in normal temperature

By: OINK

OINK — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:55:19 +0000

My 9 y/o son said, “They kinda taste like a urine volcano in your mouth.”

By: MinaChan

MinaChan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:29:06 +0000

just as deadly as beans and broccoli!

By: MinaChan

MinaChan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:28:05 +0000

General Foods was battling “exploded kid” rumors as early as 1979, a mere four years after the product went to market. They took out full-page ads in 45 major publications, wrote some 50,000 letters to school principals around the country, and sent the confection’s inventor on the road 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. Despite all these measures, the rumors of the urban legend abound even to this day.

Around 1983, enough pressure become too much and Pop Rocks were taken off the market. What’s less known is that Kraft bought the rights to the product from General Foods in 1985 and then marketed it as “Action Candy” through a company named Carbonated Candy.

Pop Rocks are now back out in the open and are again marketed under their original name by Zeta Espacial S.A. and is distributed by Pop Rocks, Inc.

That means half of us reading this haven’t lived when pop rocks weren’t around. As for powder, it does exist, just not in the little packets at the store. You can purchase it to add to recipes.

By: MinaChan

MinaChan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:22:00 +0000

Exactly my thoughts. I just saw some not a couple of hours ago. I have NEVER seen powder poprocks. IDK if they’d even work right if they were powder. Also, they wouldn’t be Pop Rocks, they’d be Pop Powder.

By: Jace

Jace — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:07:15 +0000

If humans could not burp and fart this could be deadly, but the extra gas preasure gets burped and farted out.

By: Waffletacular Sr.

Waffletacular Sr. — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:57:31 +0000

I still have some pop rocks…

By: bukkitz

bukkitz — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:56:09 +0000

What? It’s not powder, it’s still the same size and shape as always. And they’re the same size and shape as Nerds, and those haven’t been taken off the market because “kids choked on them.” Plus Pop Rocks haven’t been taken off the shelves at all, you can still get them everywhere.

By: bukkitz

bukkitz — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:54:10 +0000

I was thinking the same thing. I see them in tons of stores all the time still, they’re not off the market at all. Not sure where the person who wrote this heard that

By: hannah

hannah — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:25:57 +0000

can you say subliminal messaging?

By: glenstar

glenstar — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:21:50 +0000

The original ones were hilarious to throw into the toilet and slam the lid shut! Well I was but a youngster at the time so anything like that was funny…

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:19 +0000

I gotta say, my first thought was “Ouch, that sounds painful.” *G*

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:58:37 +0000

That’s why I was leaving a comment – the Pop Rocks Margarita! That thing is awesome. Had one a few months ago and accidentally coated everyone at my table and the next table over with Pop Rocks (oops). ^_^

By: KoS

KoS — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:19:38 +0000

I remember in high school hearing about how these could be used to enhance certain…um…sexual acts…

And I’m not sayin’ whether or not I ever tried it. <..>

By: Lynnie

Lynnie — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:51:08 +0000

These aren’t off the market in New York, I can’t think of a single food, snack or candy shop that doesn’t have them.

My best Pop Rocks moment was while watching a movie with my best friend, I had just downed a mouthful when something funny happened, I turned to look at her and laughed, a pop rock shot out of my mouth and hit her in the eye.

By: TJ Douchemandzadeh

TJ Douchemandzadeh — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:53:51 +0000

I liked them better when they were called “Cosmic Dust”.

By: MettanAtem

MettanAtem — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:23:49 +0000

Pop Rocks are delicious.

By: ammayy

ammayy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:08:15 +0000

He did that so it would be the thumbnail for his youtube video. It’s exactly half way through the video.

By: Pennyforth

Pennyforth — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:36:13 +0000

“EXPLODEY DEATH!!!” is my new favorite catchphrase.

By: TC

TC — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:54:36 +0000

I’ll look there but I’m down in the Houston area, and I never seem to be able to find them.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:48:02 +0000

you can still find em at wal greens! i get em all the time

By: TechiKitteh

TechiKitteh — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 04:45:49 +0000

I love it, no one watched the whole video, he DID explode. Oh, btw, the split second advertising was of him holding up poprocks and coke, a freeze-frame of the part right before it says, “This is not an endorsement.”

By: utaduta

utaduta — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:26:13 +0000

willie wonka has a chocolate verson of pop rocks. its chocolte bits that fiz just like pop rocks! it helpes to pass the time at work to walk around and open your mouth to people with your mouth all fizzing!

By: Kittah!

Kittah! — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:20:56 +0000

They changed them

By: A person

A person — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:36:12 +0000

I saw it too. “This is not an endorsement”, huh… XD

By: Mindy

Mindy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:09:45 +0000

If you ever go to Joe’s Crab Shack they have a awesome pop rocks drink!

By: Nunya

Nunya — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:45:10 +0000

Oh, how I wanted that guy to explode. What a tool.

By: Dragonkat

Dragonkat — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:21:59 +0000

Ok, what made pop rocks go off the shelves ages ago was the fact that they were not the powder kinds we have now. They were actually shaped like rocks (think of jawbreakers). The problem with these is that yes, kids choked on them. They were taken out of the market and then returned with the new form. =)

By: emily

emily — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:16:21 +0000

Honestly, like 2 years ago I had some pop rocks and I had a coke too and I went to take a drink of coke while I had some pop rocks in my mouth and one of my friends flipped….. she was like “NO NO NO!! You can’t do that!” I laughed in her face.

By: Squidlet

Squidlet — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:05:37 +0000

They’re not off the shelves!! I live in seattle and i see them every day, hmm… maybe you guys should make sure it’s gone before you memorialize it

By: Reenie

Reenie — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:44:55 +0000

I dunno about anyone else, but Pop Rocks are NOT off the market — I see them all the time here in Seattle.

Isn’t this blog *from* Seattle??

By: Destin

Destin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:34:31 +0000

No, you’re not.

By: Melanie Harrison

Melanie Harrison — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:56:56 +0000

Cosmic Candy was first, just sayin’… Does anyone else remember it, had like a man in the moon graphic on the package? It was definitely around in the 70’s.

By: TC

TC — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:34:09 +0000

Oh man I remember the first time I ever ate pop rocks.

I was about 3 and we were in El Paso visiting family for Christmas, my cousin handed me some and I freaked out when I put them in my mouth. Now I love them but they are so hard to find around here.

By: Fuzzi

Fuzzi — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:24:04 +0000

Am I the only one who sees a split-second flash of what could be subliminal advertising at 1:18? Looks like a coke bottle…

By: spudwalt

spudwalt — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:02:26 +0000

One of my cats (who is sadly no longer with us) used to love eating these. Whenever any of us would open up a package of Pop Rocks, he’d show up in short order.

Needless to say, he was a very odd cat.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:26:27 +0000

This is really random, but did anyone ever try these in ice cream like at Cold Stone Creamery? I used to work there and they had this promo with the Robots movie where they’d put cotton candy ice cream with sprinkles, marshmallows, and Pop Rocks, and the Pop Rocks were easily the best part.