Were "Pop Rocks" ever illegal.

In the very early 70’s you couldn’t find Pop Rocks candy anywhere in the suburb of Milwaukee I grew up in. Kids would come back from out of state vacations with them, but they just didn’t have them here. The story was that they were illegal here, being such a “violent” thing to put in ones mouth. Then in the mid-70’s the “Mikey from Life cereal died from Pop Rocks and Coca Cola” story surfaced, bolstering the claim, and giving a good reason for, pop Rocks to be illegal. By the early 1980’s Pop Rocks were present in the stores here, but by then I was too old to enjoy the thrill. Recently I saw some in a store, which reminded me of all this nonsense. But I still wonder: Did any states or municipality ever ban Pop Rocks? If so, what was the reason?

I remember back in the mid to late 70’s PopRocks were banned from my school. I don’t remember the reasoning behind it though…

I was a kid of the 70s too, and I remember Pop Rocks being around. We used to trick family members into trying them, what hilarity! :rolleyes:

What did disappear from our area of Iowa, though, was Zotz candies. You know, the little hard-shelled candies with the fizzing powder in the middle? The reasoning behind the ban was that some kid had been sucking on one of the Zotz Bomb suckers when it exploded in his mouth. He supposedly had to have numerous stitches. Never did find out whether it was true or not, but I didn’t see any Zotz products again till the 90s.

I don’t think they were ever illegal, however they did stop marketing them. Here’s the whole story from http://www.snopes.com

I just saw a thirty-something Mikey in what looked to be a re-touched version of one of the original Life commercials. Kind of funny, but it would have been cooler had he exploded. Then again, I’m not a marketing person.