Mentos and Diet Coke...now that's entertainment.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:18 am

I saw this video last week on a funny video site, and today found this article bout them on yahoo. Apparantly thier talents have landed them on the Today show and David Lettermen show.

Here's a link to see the video.

http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_ ... pybird.com

And here's the article from yahoo..

PORTLAND, Maine - A pair of Mainers who became Internet celebrities by plopping Mentos into Diet Coke to create geysers are about to become hits on mainstream media.

Fritz Grobe, 37, and Stephen Voltz, 48, were scheduled to appear on David Letterman's show Thursday night and on the Today show Friday morning to demonstrate their explosive and entertaining chemistry experiments featuring candy and soda.

The Buckfield residents have had more than 3.5 million hits on their Web site since they posted a 3-minute video of their homemade experiment involving more than 500 Mentos and more than 100 two-liter plastic bottles of Diet Coke in early June.

"This has turned into a global phenomenon in a way that was totally unexpected. We expected to tell our friends, who would tell their friends, and then maybe a few weeks later we would start seeing some larger interest. But we never anticipated this," Grobe said Wednesday.

Grobe and Voltz are known around Maine for their regular appearances as part of "The Early Evening Show" at the Oddfellow Theater, a 156-seat theater in Buckfield.

Their Mentos-Diet Coke experiment began on a whim eight months ago. "Stephen heard from a friend that if you drop Mentos in soda it makes a fountain. We tried it like so many others have, and said, 'This is really cool,'" Grobe said.

They started with 10 bottles and saw the potential for more. "We knew there were so many more possibilities. We were just scratching the surface," he said.

The geysers created on their video look like choreographed fireworks or the dancing fountain at Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

On Letterman's show, they hoped to utilize 120 bottles of soda, if time permits.

Grobe said it isn't essential to use a Coke product, although diet soda seems to work better than regular soda, he said. "And don't forget Moxie," he said of the soft drink that originated in Maine. "Moxie works very well, as well."

annabelle · Post by **annabelle** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:56 am

:wah: What a crazy pair! ...

Now .... where can I buy me some Mentos? Hmmm ...

:wah:

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:49 am

Oh wow..I saw this on TV..it may have been on the Today show. Now did I see it wrong..I thought that they used regular Coke, and got a bigger geyser than with Diet? Or am I just remembering it wrong.

I also seem to remember that they tried it also with Pepsi and with Altiods..but the best results were with the Coke and mentos

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:54 am

I heard of this-my diet coke remain secure besides me at this moment!:wah:

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:07 am

Hmmm who can I dare to go drop a few mentos in Chronsi's diet coke? :sneaky:

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:08 am

Ha-they kept hinting they would at choir rehearsal. I am the lone holdout in a world of Pepsi drinkers here..........................

Imagine what would have happend when they hit that high note...................

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:17 am

:wah: keep holding out, pepsi products only good for a caffiene rush.

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:16 pm

so what exactly is going on inside of me when i eat my mentos and drink my diet coke?

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 12:21 pm

hotsauce wrote: so what exactly is going on inside of me when i eat my mentos and drink my diet coke?

Do you really want to know??:sneaky: