For this kid who grew up in the '90s, Pop Rocks candy was my absolute favorite due to the crackling effect on my tongue as I poured entire packets of the sugary goodness into my mouth. But growing up ...

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 ...

Eating most candy isn’t complicated: You take a bite, enjoy a sugar-fueled dopamine rush, and repeat until you have a stomach ache. Chemist William A. Mitchell added another step to the process when ...

Finally, finally, finally, we grown-ups have the perfect excuse to eat Pop Rocks — that childhood guilty pleasure from our grade school days — in public. It doesn’t hurt that this Pop Rocks love is ...

Pop Rocks and the Fourth of July kind of go hand in hand, don’t you think? They’re both nostalgic, fun and involve some fireworks. Sure, Pop Rocks’ fireworks are tiny little crackling sensations on ...

4 (16.25-ounce) boxes white cake mix (enough for 8 cake layers) 5 cups 7-Up or similar soda, divided, to substitute for the water in the cake mix 1 1/3 cups vegetable oil, divided, or as needed to ...

Decades before molecular gastronomists were hawking vodka mist and caviar foam, we had food that was just plain fun: Pop Rocks, Magic Shell, and countless other strange creations that required a ...

When rumors spread around the playground in 1979 that Mikey, the kid from the Life cereal commercial, had been killed from a fatal mix of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola, I thought only of myself. Here was ...