In order to get Pop Rocks on the shelves, someone had to lose a finger. Back in 1975, General Foods executives thought they had struck gold with the candy, a pebble-sized shell holding carbon dioxide ...

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 ...

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 ...

The limited edition Hershey’s with Popping Candy tastes like a brick of hardened frosting with Pop Rocks mixed in. Of course, for legal reasons, Hershey’s isn’t going to call it Pop Rocks. They’ve got ...

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 ...

Disposal: All solutions used in this experiment can be disposed of down the drain with running water. Unused Pop Rocks ® candy can be disposed of in the trash. Pop Rocks ® is a very special brand of ...