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Is there some urban legend about someone dying from drinking coke and eating a mentos? Or is that something else? Poprocks and all that. Cool video/art project anyway.

My brother just told me myth busters did a show about the mentos/diet coke thing. I went to their website and they go over the reasons why it works, how it has to be a certain kind of mentos (not the glaze outside), and any artificially sweetened soda works. They did, however, say salt works better than mentos.

One of the guys on the show drank some diet coke and then ate some mentos. This is what he said about the experience:

"I took a big swing and popped a couple of Mentos in my mouth, and the soda pretty much came out my nose and sprayed all over the place. Everyone laughed. I've got this big mustache -- it's kind of my trademark on the show -- and it was dripping all over off this mustache and made a big mess."

But he didn't die.

lol

Thanks for sharing, Tara. I'm surprised Mentos hasn't used this phenomenon in a commercial, yet...