# What happens when you mix coke and pop rocks, REALLY? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809 "2002-04-15T20:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CRorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CRorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CRorex)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/21 "2002-04-18T14:08:08Z")
You can pretty much buy pop rocks anywhere, you just have to look for them. I kinda liked drinking josta and pop rocks 🙂 It made it extra fizzy 🙂 Oh yeah, the oral sex and pop rocks thing 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/22 "2002-04-18T18:33:26Z")
[Buy Pop Rocks Here](http://www.poprockscandy.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/23 "2002-04-18T21:20:51Z")
[Here, too](http://www.groovycandy.com/). ---
**Author:** ![abel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@abel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abel)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/24 "2002-04-18T21:35:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dave316 \* > \*\*my dad was the warden at the state prison. When i young me and the guards used to play this little joke, we would wake up one of the death row inmates in the middle of the night and tell them it was time and take them to the gas chamber but instead of sodium cyanide pellet we would put pop rocks in and instead of acid we would use coke, you should see the look on their face when we did that ! \*\* Dude, if it’s true, that isn’t cool at all. Having seen the Green Mile a few times\*, I’m reminded of the character Percy, who basically just taunted all the death row inmates and got them riled up. Isn’t this the same thing? \*Obviously a movie and reality aren’t always completely synced up, but the movie raised a good point that when someone is contemplating their own death, it isn’t nice to tease them about it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/25 "2002-04-18T21:36:54Z")
Anyone remember the other fizzy candy from the 70’s? They were an oval-shaped hard candy with a fizzy center, and much better than pop rocks. ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/26 "2002-04-18T22:39:04Z")
FWIW, Shoe Carnival, also sells PopRocks, and no i did not buy any\> I hate Pop Rocks! ---
**Author:** ![tapioca\_tundra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@tapioca\_tundra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapioca_tundra)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/27 "2002-04-18T23:47:46Z")
I remember. They were pretty cool. There was a tv movie or something a number of years back with a 70’s time travel theme. In it some dude takes some pop rocks and tries to drink a Coke and a dude next to him yells out “Stop…you want to kill yourself?!” and I about died. (i can’t remember a damn thing anymore) ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/28 "2002-04-19T00:09:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*Anyone remember the other fizzy candy from the 70’s? They were an oval-shaped hard candy with a fizzy center, and much better than pop rocks. \*\* That would be [ZOTZ!!](http://www.oldtimecandy.com/zotz.htm) They were awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Lady\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@Lady\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lady_Ice)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2002, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809/29 "2002-04-19T00:15:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*Anyone remember the other fizzy candy from the 70’s? They were an oval-shaped hard candy with a fizzy center, and much better than pop rocks. \*\* I remember those. I liked those way more than Pop Rocks. The best part of the hard candy was when you had sucked on it long enough for just the tiny hole in the top. The fizz would fountain out of the candy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-when-you-mix-coke-and-pop-rocks-really/103809.md?page=1)