Mentos & Dr Pepper (archived from SA-talk mutterings)

[azurelunatic]

Darth Everheart says:

ingredients:

1. 2-litre bottle of Diet Doctor Pepper*
2. 1 roll mint Mentos. Actually you only need 1 Mento, but they come in a roll.

procedure:

1. Take your bottle of soda, Mentos, and any spectators to an isolated area such as a parking lot, sidewalk, vacant lot, driveway, etc. Avoid using someone else's private property - or at least make sure it isn't surveilled by security video. Avoid automobiles or anything else that you don't want to clean up.

2. Open the soda bottle. Place it on the ground.

3. Everybody step back a few feet, except for the Mentos volunteer.

4. Said volunteer must remove one Mento from the roll, drop it into the soda bottle, and step back very very quickly.

5. Hilarity ensues!

(*We also successfully used regular Doctor Pepper as a control. I can think of no reason why this wouldn't work with a litre bottle or smaller, though the list's science geeks may know if this would present any obvious safety hazard. I'd be cautious about using a can, however.)

Science fans can, I am sure, devise any number of variations on type of soda and Mentos flavor to determine the most and least effective combinations.

Comments

[sithjawa.livejournal.com]

It also works with Pepsi and Pixie Sticks.

[azurelunatic]

And Clearly Canadian and pixy stix, or with soda and Nerds, soda and skittles, soda and Kool Aid mix... It's fun.