Life Rocks

Life Rocks is an urban legend about a kid who mixed pop rocks and coke and exploded.

There was famous commercial that used to air on TV for Life breakfast cereal and starred a kid known as “Little Mikey”. In the Life commercial, Little Mikey became famous as the kid who will eat anything his older brothers put in front of him.

After the commercial aired, an urban legend began to spread that Little Mikey had died after eating an unexpectedly lethal combination of Pop Rocks (candy that snaps and crackles in your mouth) and soda. Apparently, they caused a build-up of gas inside him that made him explode.

This was only a myth of course, since pop rocks and coke aren’t powerful enough to make you explode and the actor who played Little Mikey is still alive and well.

The funniest thing about it was that the rumor became so widespread that the company that makes Pop Rocks had to spend thousands of dollars in advertising trying to convince people that pop rocks were safe to eat!

I wonder if anyone’s been killed by Diet Coke and Mentos…