How You Get the Mentos into the Diet Coke

Did you think this was gonna be some grand metaphor blog post? Nope. You probably know: if you put Mentos in Diet Coke, it makes the carbonation go crazy and fizz shoots out of the bottle. It’s a “science” experiment akin to baking soda & vinegar volcano, freezing a banana in liquid hydrogen and shattering it, or playing with a bit of mercury in your hands. No? Just me? Anyway. What do you picture in your mind when you think of getting that tube of Mentos into the Diet Coke bottle? I bet you don’t even really think of anything at all. You just do it or whatever. You put them in there. Allow me to tell you, it’s not going to go good. In my experience children just cup them in their hands and try to funnel them in. Kid or adult, you’ll get half of them in a best. Then you freak out when the fizz starts come up and drop the rest, probably knocking over the bottle. Maybe you’re like, bro, it’s a tube already, you just open one end and squoosh them out. I don’t blame you for trying, but…