There's this Robert Klein comedy record that my brother had way back when we were teenagers. I don't remember the album or the entire bit but it included the throwaway line 'I love good science." Which we'll still drop in conversation w/ each other. Both as snark and a sincere appreciation. And that's a long intro to this solid bit of experimentation debunking a Mentos hoax. Of course, the original Mentos/Diet Coke explodo-fest has been well-documented. Mythbusters even did an episode on it. But this one involves freezing Mentos into ice cubes, supposedly allowing delayed reaction hilarity to ensue. The video explains exactly why that won't work. Altho if you know the basics of how the original experiment worked, it's pretty easy to figure out. I love the mention in the text that after the prank got mentioned on boing² there were hundreds of comments arguing the validity/workability of the prank back & forth but nobody (apparently) actually bothered to test it and see what happened. That, alas, sums up the average internets comment thread pretty well.