Back in 1956, General Foods chemist William A. Mitchell came up with the original Pop Rocks candy, a carbonated candy made from assorted sugars and flavorings, heated to the melting point, exposed to ...

April 18, 2006 — -- The same year that Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine for polio, a little-known chemist at General Foods stumbled on to what would provide a revolution in mouths across the ...

When rumors spread around the playground in 1979 that Mikey, the kid from the Life cereal commercial, had been killed from a fatal mix of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola, I thought only of myself. Here was ...

image: Pop Rocks® is a popular brand of popping candy manufactured and sold by Zeta Espacial S.A. The candies are just sugar and carbon dioxide, but making your own version of them at home is harder ...

From Tang's astronaut appeal to the jaw-breaking Marathon Bar, these forgotten treats didn't just satisfy cravings—they created the rituals, social currencies, and shared experiences that bound an ...

On Oct. 16, 2022, Twitter user @cabby posted an old video with the caption, "Pop Rocks making borderline soft porn for a commercial in the early 2000s is truly incredible." The tweet appeared to claim ...

The child got the candy at a community trick-or-treating event. — -- The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is demanding answers after a mystery person allegedly dropped a small package of ...