SO 2005 PRANKS
There are some jokes that never go out of style, like those old, cheesy jokes you tell to younger folks for the first time, and they crack up because they've never heard them before. This happens with the Mentos and Coca-Cola prank. It's so 2005, but there are always people willing to keep it alive.
Seems a bit staged, doesn't it? Like it was planned but she had no clue the drink was gonna blast out like that.
By the way, here's the backstory of the famous prank:
In the 80s, Life Savers Wint-O-Green mints were used to create soda geysers. The mint rolls were attached to a pipe cleaner and dropped into the drink, causing an eruption. By the late 90s, the mint producers increased the size of the mints so they wouldn't fit into the bottle mouths. Science teachers found out that Mentos candies had the same effect when dropped into a carbonated beverage.
Chemistry teacher Lee Marek, along with Marek's "science kids," did the Coke and Mentos experiment on an episode of Late Show with David Letterman in 1999. In March 2002, science communicator Steve Spangler demonstrated it for KUSA-TV in Denver. The Coke and Mentos geyser became an internet sensation in 2005 and was studied on the TV show MythBusters in 2006.
Spangler signed a licensing deal with Perfetti Van Melle, the Mentos company, after creating a device to make dropping the candy into the bottle easier to produce the geyser. Amazing Toys, Spangler's toy company, released this design under the name Geyser Tube in February 2007.
In October 2010, a Guinness World Record was set with 2,865 simultaneous geysers at an event organized by Perfetti Van Melle at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines. This record was later broken in November 2014 at another event organized by Perfetti Van Melle and Chupa Chups in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, where 4,334 Mentos and soda fountains were achieved.
Slow-Mo of the Day.