Pop Rocks Science What happens when you mix Pop Rocks and soda?   email to friend
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Pop Rocks are known as the exploding candy, and if you ate Pop Rocks as a kid, you probably remember the legend. If you eat Pop Rocks and then drink a soda, you'll explode. The Food and Drug Administration even set-up a telephone hotline to assure anxious parents that the popping candy would not cause children to explode. While you can mark this one up as urban legend (in other words, it's not true), there is some interesting science behind the world famous popping candy.