If you can't recall the exact first time you tried Pop Rocks candy, it probably went something like this: You ripped open the packet, dumped some of the clumpy pebbles on your tongue, and widened your ...

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 ...