Mentos
How long have the folks who make Mentos known their candy could be used as a sugary IED? A look back at the subtext of their famous early 90s ad campaign reveals a shocking truth ...
Just The Facts
- Chewy mint candy that comes in rolls.
- First produced in the Netherlands in the 1950s.
- Possesses power to get you out of bad situations.
- The much anticipated successor to Pop Rocks for the prestigious title of "Candy Most Likely To Blow Your Fucking Head Off".
- Good with Diet Coke.
Cracked on Mentos
Mentos is a chewy mint candy that comes in rolls. It has a unique texture/taste combination that is pleasant at first, and ends up as a flavorless gelatin tablet that you have to spit out. But all of that is really besides the point. Mentos is still sold because it has gone viral twice, once before the fucking Internet was even invented.
The candy's popularity first surged in the 1990s due to a series of campy TV commercials. Each commercial spot depicted a scenario where an individual got into a jam. There was also a bystander in each commercial who would observe the events as they unfolded. As the bystander watched, the protagonist would pop a Mentos into their mouth, and as if by magic, overcome their adversity. (On Cracked: Mentos Fans Make Their Own Ad).
The TV commercials always ended with a freeze frame on the individual with their fist clenched around a roll of Mentos. At the time it seemed like an incredibly lame, sugar coated thumbs up, but that all changed once we found at that Mentos FUCKING EXPLODE.
The TV spots were so popular that they inspired the music video for the Foo Fighters song "Big Me" which parodied several Mentos commercials. It also inspired Dave Grohl to dress like a girl.
Keep in mind that this all happened before there was an Internet, AND that nobody really liked the candy. The people making these commercials were secretly geniuses.
A decade later Mentos went viral a second time due to the discovery that they react violently when combined with Diet Coke. Unlike the Pop Rocks myth, the Mentos & Diet Coke combination actually has merit as evidenced in the now famous Internet video created by EepyBird.
While people will typically flee from exploding things, Mentos' popularity increased as a result. The destructive power was so well documented that the Mythbusters were inspired to explore it in an episode. It also inspired Kari Byron to get kind of naked.
Bwa ha! Kari Byron makes my mentos expl- wait. She puts the mentos is my bottle of di- no, hold on. She makes my bottle expl-, um... f**k it, she's hot.
ReplyPerhaps the writer of this topic should have consulted others before deciding that noone likes mentos
Replyf**k you dickbreath
Holy Fuck! I have to get a copy of the FHM. Kari Byron is hot as hell.
ReplyGOD YOU GUYS ARE SO DAMN STUPID
Reply Hide All See All 5 Repliessir you seem to be the idiot since you still read the wonderful cracked articles after deciding they are stupid if i was you i would A( commit suicide or B( get a life
agreed
thirded
I disagree with paleo_kid, loconate and jackmagic02. Option B shouldn't even be on the table.
what about option c: trap himself in carbonite?
Mentos are f*****g delicious, and I will not hear a word against them.
Replyf**k yes.
right on.
KARL MARX MOTHERFUCKERS, KARL MARX!
Replynaked Kari Byron....
Reply=D
Mentos make me doodie.
Replyhttp://doodiepants.com
You know something. When this "cracked topics" got started I thought it was going to be more meaningful and not just another post with barely any content in it.
ReplyDear Kari I want your boobies. k thnx.
Replyas a dare, i actualy ate a whole pack of mentos and coke at college, first it was just one can and a few. a few burps so i spent an hour downing the 5 cans of coke left. i then proceeded to swallow 10 mentos whole, by the 7nth i was on my knees on the college feild, my mates backing away with sick comming out of my nose as well as my mouth, it took ages getting the burnign sensation out of my nose but at least i got a fiver for it.
ReplyIt's like a laboratory re-creation of Tubgirl
ReplyThat picture would be sexy if the fountain to her left didn't look like an explosion of diarrea.
ReplyGreat job, Cracked. You ruined boobs.
Only a f*g would consider boobs can get ruined by a stupid soda fountain, or even ruined at all
Second. 'Specially Kari tits.
Oh dear god please make Kari Byron make a sex tape
ReplyYou spit it out? Boy, I've been eating them wrong...
ReplyYeah! Oh GOD WHAT DID I DO!?
Agreed.
ReplyOn another note though, I actually really like Mentos.
Anything that gets Byron to take her clothes off deserves to me immortalised forever.
ReplyProbably the most popular FHM picture. Myth Buster's fans like it because Kari is sexy and half-naked, and geeks like it because of the hal-naked girl. Everybody wins. Now if only they did one of her completely naked...preferably before she got pregnant.
ReplyThank you so much for that picture of Kari Byron.
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