• Artyom@lemm.ee
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    The mentos and coke thing is a reaction between the carbonation and the rough surface of the mentos. The water would dissolve the surface rather quickly, even in ideal scenarios, and as you melt the ice, you wouldn’t be able to re-expose the surface fast enough for a meaningful reaction. Just all around an impractical plan.

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      9 months ago

      If I remember right from a video back when mentos and Coke was all the rage, it wasn’t just the texture of the mentos but there was also a chemical reaction in the combination of the two is what led to the violent reaction.

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    That wouldn’t work, the water would change the texture of the mentos before the soda hits it.

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      Even if it didn’t change the texture, it wouldn’t be a sudden explosion, but a slow release. The ice would melt off, slowly exposing the surface of the Mentos. To get the explosion they want you have to throw the Mentos in quickly.

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        9 months ago

        What if you had piece of ice with an air cavity where the Mentos is placed, then sealed in? I think that might work, bit it’s certainly tricky to set up.

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          Once the air cavity is breached, you have a few droplets of liquid touching the candy, effusing minor volumes of carbonation and then slowly diffusing with the rest of the soda.

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      Ok ok, plan B then:

      We freeze the end of a rope in ice that they unknowingly throw in their drink. The other end of the rope holds a bucket of water above the chair they sit in. Once the ice melts, the rope will slip out and the water will come down on them. They will never know what happened!

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      9 months ago

      Smh soda needs to get on board and stop being a little bitch with its soda-tongue pickiness. Try something new, soda.

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    9 months ago

    They’ll spill in my apartment, don’t they? Or do you regularly gift away ice cubes?

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    Would that even work? As the ice melts, only a small part of the mentos would be exposed, with a gradually increasing surface area. But I’d expected it only works because of the whole surface being suddenly exposed.

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      No, for several reasons.

      Ice would expose mentos way too slowly. Mentos being in water and freezing would have already removed the texture that makes it work to begin with. By the time the ice melted enough a lot of the carbonation would have already escaped the soda. One mentor isn’t enough to cause much reaction. The soda would be cold from the ice and that slows the release of the cO2…

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        Poor it along the side of the glass, you animal.

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          Yes, however the (oh god no! I’m being that guy!!) pouring it into the glass even carefully down the side loses the carbonation that “makes” the mentos and coke work. You really can only do it from in the bottle

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            9 months ago

            Really? Are you sure it’s not just the shape of the bottle vs a glass? I’m not super familiar with the reaction, myself. Never heard about it not working in a glass.

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    Hah! Joke’s on you. I drink that shit fast and swallow the ice cubes whole.

    Oh no, I’m burping so hard, you guise…

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    If I served my friends soda, they’d not be friends anymore. This establishment isn’t a Chuck E…Cheese and if all I have in the fridge is soda, you’re getting iced water or tea/coffee.

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      Imagine being too lazy to tend to your guests with what they request, and too cheap to lose $0.08 of your 2L coke. “this ain’t no fancy shit like the rat house, and get your ass your own tp too. fuck washing your hands on my dime, the fuck is this, sears? 50 cents for 5 seconds. wifi? Cent a megabyte. bed? no. get the fuck out at midnight. that includes you babe!”

      You prob the kinda guy who would charge $0.54 a mile for ‘business wear and tear’ reimbursement even though your Prius costs $0.16 to go the same distance - and you’re just driving your friend home. Who lives on your street, and you were headed home anyway. “It costs money to be in my aura of greatness! Seatbelt $25 btw.”

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        If you come into my house, you get water, beer, juice, kombucha, wine, at least five tea options, coffee, or even a scotch if you want.

        Cheap would be offering them something that’s full of sugar, artificial flavour, costs me fuck all, and usually comes with a Happy Meal. I don’t insult my friends like that and they wouldn’t do it to me either.

        Step up your game. It doesn’t cost much to be a good host.