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 ...

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 ...

When rumors spread around the playground in 1979 that Mikey, the kid from the Life cereal commercial, had been killed from a fatal mix of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola, I thought only of myself. Here was ...