In order to get Pop Rocks on the shelves, someone had to lose a finger. Back in 1975, General Foods executives thought they had struck gold with the candy, a pebble-sized shell holding carbon dioxide ...

April 18, 2006 — -- The same year that Jonas Salk discovered a vaccine for polio, a little-known chemist at General Foods stumbled on to what would provide a revolution in mouths across the ...

Pop Rocks have a kind of novelty that feels a little like magic. Sure, there are lots of other nostalgic, classic candies, but no matter how many times you've torn open a bag of Pop Rocks and tossed a ...

Back in 1956, General Foods chemist William A. Mitchell came up with the original Pop Rocks candy, a carbonated candy made from assorted sugars and flavorings, heated to the melting point, exposed to ...

"If you're going to give a kid Pop Rocks for the first time, you'd better have a camera, because it's that remarkable to a kid. Ask anyone, and they'll remember the first time they had Pop Rocks. It's ...