After seeing so much mentos and cola videos over the internet in the last couple days, I decided I had to try it with Diet Coke 2 liter bottles, so I biked to the local convenience store and bought two 2 liter bottles of diet coke and a pack of mentos (total: about $4.25, coke $1.69/bottle, mentos: rest of money minus 5% tax), put it in a plastic bag, and started biking home. It was a miserable failure. First on the way home, the bag broke and the mentos and coke fell out, but I didn't notice it until the second coke bottle fell out, as when this one fell the side popped a bit, making noise and causing most of the fizz and about a fifth of the coke to come out. Then I had to bike back and look for the other bottle adn the mentos, but I only found the mentos on the ground. Luckily this woman who I passed while getting the mentos found the other coke bottle for me, which was unharmed. After getting everything bagged I decided I'd first get rid of the rest of the broken bottle right there, which by putting 3 mentos in the bottle, It did quite well, considering the fizz lack, leaving only about a quarter of the bottle, but compared to what would happen if all the fizz was still there, it was lame. Then I biked to this field near my house, and tried to do the thing where you put mentos, wrapped in paper, in the bottle and cap it. Then shake it for a while and throw it against the ground. The problem is I had no paper, so I just put the rest of the tube of mentos in, and shook it up for a while and threw it against the ground, but nothing happened, so I shook some more and tried again. Nothing happened, so I tried again. And again. And again. Then I gave up and tried unscewing the cap on the ground so it jets up, but this failed too, as I couldn't unscrew it fast enough, and all I got was a weak spraying effect that disposed of very little soda. The reason; the wrapper is doesn't let the soda through very well, so most of the mentos did nothing. In the end I was left with a $4.25 hole in my pocket, and just over a liter of minty cola.
So to recap:
Bad things
1. Both coke bottles were failures, $4.25 down the drain
2. I had so much soda left (I don't really like diet coke)
3. Torture carrying the messy crap after the first exploded
Good things
1. The mentos made the cola minty
2. The old japanese person I passed found my coke bottle
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