The fresh maker!

[beautifulduckweed]

Mentos fresh and full of life! (When dropped in diet coke.)

Link cheerfully stolen from lilithsaintcrow.

For you science geeks whose first thought was "NO WAY Mentos can do that to diet Coke!" check out their explanation page. Veddy, veddy cool.

Comments

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

Thought you'd enjoy that. *grin*

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

It makes me want to buy a bottle of soda RIGHT NOW to test this.

Also, I wonder if gummy bears would work? They allegedly tried this with a bunch of other sweets, but the videos haven't been posted yet.

[mustela.livejournal.com]

We did this the other day. It works, but it's hard to get a lot of mentos in there. Also you get covered with Diet Coke, and are forced to call up your parents and demand which one of them exactly encouraged your interest in science?!

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. What's the lag time like between dropping in the mentos and the frizzing? I'm wondering if cutting the mints in half and then dropping them in would have a similar effect. Would the slightly increased surface area augment this effect?

I wonder what dropping in a shitload of Tic Tacs would do?

Anyway, Jay and I are going camping along the Deschutes river this 4th of July with a buncha my work friends, and I'm trying to persuade them that this will be an Awesome Camping Activity. I mean, the river is Right There. If we get sprayed too badly, we can go rinse off, and any trout and steelhead swimming within a few feet of us can get a mild caffeine high. EVERYBODY WINS.

(Other suggested activities for this trip: buying a beer suit for my friend Anna to wear throughout the trip, referring to ourselves only in the third person while randomly interjecting "In accordance with the prophecy!" during conversations, rolling a bum for spare change only to engage in wacky group sex with him on top of a car...oh, wait, I was thinking of A Clockwork Orgy. Dammit, I need to stop confusing that with real life.)

[mustela.livejournal.com]

The lag time is about a second. Literally. Maybe two. Not much longer.

And why would you waste precious, delicious tic tacs?


(In middle school I had a two pack a day habit. White only.)

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

I have no problems consigning Tic Tacs to a watery, bubbly grave. I'm not much of a candy sort of a person; my one big weakness is chocolate. Once in a very great while I'll crave gummi bears.

Hmm. I wonder what a broken-off square of chocolate would do to the coke?

SO MANY DIFFERENT EXPERIMENTS TO CONDUCT.

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

You mean referring to yourself in the third person etc. is only for camping trips?

And while I encourage rolling people for spare change I don't know if a bum and group sex is a good idea without a full-body prophylactic.

My husband so needs the beer suit to wear to family gatherings...

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Candy thinks referring to herself in the third person is a SWELL idea. However, Candy also thinks that keeping it up for extended periods of time will be exhausting, which is why the duration of the camping trip is perfect. Candy suspects that she will soldier on with this bit of silliness long after it ceases to be funny, just because Candy is often oblivious like that.

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

Lili thinks Candy stole the idea from her. Lili also thinks third-person is exhausting.

Lili's going to go sing Gilbert & Sullivan at the top of her lungs in the back yard now.

Lili's just joking. About Candy stealing the idea, that is.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Candy is relieved that if musical theater had to be involved, that Lili chose Gilbert and Sullivan instead of, say, Andrew Lloyd Weber. Because you know what they say: if you've heard one Andrew Lloyd Weber song, you've heard both of them.

(Candy did not come up with that herself. Candy got that from a friend of hers--a tall, bald, urbane man with a gift for aphorism and who's prone to bursting into random bits of songs from musicals, especially when drunk. This friend of Candy's is, despite all indications otherwise, is heterosexual.)

[ariiadne.livejournal.com]

Jay is going camping? Like, in the woods? Yikes. I'm really surprised! I think we only managed to get him out for one night, once - he was always highly resistant to the idea when I tried to pitch it later. You must be very persuasive!

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, this is car camping along the river. There are actual bathrooms there, level ground for tents, a big fire pit, potable water nearby, etc. The only amenity missing is a shower, but hey, the river is RIGHT THERE.

I'm not one for roughing it either, so Jay is quite safe from me trying to persuade him to go on an extended hike or camping in the rough. The lack of an outlet for a shaver would probably drive him insane within a day.