One Calorie
If you’re at all like me–and I suspect you really are not all that similar or different… At least not that you’d admit on either part–then you’ve heard of this silly claim about the Mentos and the Diet Pepsi.
See, Alan told me about this. He linked me to some Google Videos that showed it in the works. Not the one I just linked, but regardless, I expected the truth to be somewhere along the lines of this.
I had a little spare time today, so I decided to try it all on my own… Just for you, and just to tell Alan what a fucking joke this was and to give him a “hahahaha, you got me, I fell for it and tried it” type of thing.
Well, I’ll spare you a lot of the details.
I’ll say just one thing:
It truly works!
Nicolle took all the pictures that are up in the gallery while I dutifully performed the test for you.
It’s a fun way to kill 10 minutes and about $5 in supplies. Do yourself a favor and get a funnel or something so you can dump in a bunch more Mentos at once; I suspect you’ll get a much larger geyser out of it all!
April 11th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
I wonder what happens if you swallow a bunch of Mentos right after you’ve guzzled a bunch of Diet Pepsi…
April 12th, 2006 at 7:23 am
Ha! I read about this on Consumating this weekend, and spent some time looking at the videos. Glad to see someone I “know” telling me it’s real!
April 15th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Mr. Wizard does it again!…excellent photo-documentation of your experiment…Brings back memories of my “silverware in the microwave” experiment.