Fizzy soda fountains - a new craze sweeps the world

[fingal]

I read about this in my free morning paper (it was on page
3 so obviously this is very important ) Apparently if you
take a tube of Mentos sweets and drop them into a 2 litre bottle
of diet coke, you get a 16 ft. high soda fountain. It works better with diet coke by the way.

By calling it 'soda' I'm pandering to my American brothers and
sisters. We call it 'pop' here in the UK, but I didn't want you
thinking that you have to insert a tube of sweets into your dad /
pop ... He might object!

I haven't got time to visit the website for this craze (there are
video clips on there) but a little bird tells me to try http://www.EepyBird.com

The sweet manufacturers love the publicity, but the coke people
aren't quite as happy. Probably because of the havoc that will be
wrought in shopping malls by spotty teenagers: you know who you are!!

[Roxoff]

That's pretty cool. Right, see you all later, I'm off down the shopping centre with a couple of bottles of cola and a packet of mints...

[PsypherPunk]

i can't find any Mentos anywhere! Denied!

[fingal]

i can't find any Mentos anywhere! Denied!

Apparently Tesco own brand mint imperials or Trebor mints work, but not as well.

What I want to know is ... how did someone find out about this?

[techieMoe]

Haha. That rocks. I'm going to have to give it a try at the next backyard grill I attend.

[PsypherPunk]

Apparently Tesco own brand mint imperials or Trebor mints work, but not as well.

i've now got a packet (from Wilkos - who also had Diet Coke on a 2-for-1 deal)! Right, i'm off to the car park...

[carlosponti]

some here call soda = pop as well. And i dont know anyone here that calls thier dad pop. i have seen this stuff lately going around on the video forums. there was a spoof one where a girl with a british accent drinks pepsi and downs some mentos and explodes. funny but definately fake. there was also the choreographed show where these two guys make a fountain show by doing the same thing.

[fingal]

some here call soda = pop as well. And i dont know anyone here that calls thier dad pop.

Another stereotype bites the dust! Actually I stopped calling it 'pop' when I was about 13-14 ... Now I call it, errrr ... Well ... by its brand name.

[carlosponti]

Another stereotype bites the dust! Actually I stopped calling it 'pop' when I was about 13-14 ... Now I call it, errrr ... Well ... by its brand name.

most americans are sterotyped with that same thing about calling something by its brand name. a teacher i had in high school was in germany living there and she said they used to try teasing her by calling things by thier brand name. the example she useds is one person was vacumming the floor and said she was hoovering the floor. i know i have heard pop used in oklahoma for soda. i honestly have never heard anyone say pop for a father. i use dad and my wife calls her father daddy. i do think because of pop culture the lines accross the pond have been blurred a bit. the biggest example may be the beetles. i am sure some laungage was picked up because of that. you look at some artists from here that travel abroad bringing local laungage to other countries.

[truoc444]

i grew up in southeast texas and did hear a couple of dad's being called pop, but pop i've heard more times as a term for a grandfather. as far as the pop <=> Soda movement where i grew up and you go to a restaurant the waiter(ress) will ask you what kind of "Coke" you want and you respond with Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Pepsi, Root Beer, etc.