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Space
Dust
Space
Dust is popping candy that changes
colour while it explodes on your tongue -
for your delight and delectation. And
what's more - it comes in 3 flavours -
you'll receive a selection of Strawberry,
Orange and Tutti Frutti!
Some of
the trendy TV chefs have now started using
Space Dust in their desserts - and only
recently we supplied James Martin on
Saturday Kitchen with a whole load of it!
Apparently Gordon Ramsay is also using the
stuff.
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Pop
Rocks or Space Dust?
Space
dust (sometimes called Pop Rocks outside
the UK) is a carbonated candy with
ingredients including sugar, lactose (milk
sugar), corn syrup, and flavoring. The
idea of the product was patented by
General Foods research chemist William A.
Mitchell in 1956. The Space Dust candy was
first offered to the public in 1975.
Around 1983, General Foods stopped selling
the candy; some would believe this was
because of an urban legend. In 1985, Kraft
Foods bought the rights to the candy
product and re-marketed it as Action Candy
through a company called Carbonated
Candy.
In 2006,
Dr. Marvin Rudolph, who led the group
assigned to bring Space Dust out of the
laboratory and into the manufacturing
plant, wrote the definitive history on Pop
Rocks development. The book, titled, "Pop
Rocks: The Inside Story of America's
Revolutionary Candy, " draws on interviews
with food technologists, engineers,
marketing managers, and members of Bill
Mitchell's family, along with the author's
direct experience, to tell the complete
story.
In
recent years, a Space Dust/Pop Rocks brand
chewing gum has been
introduced.
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Space
Dust Exploding Urban Myth
During
the product's heyday, rumors persisted
that eating Space Dust and drinking cola
would cause a person's stomach to explode.
The company spent large sums sending out
flyers to debunk the rumor. This is, in
part, caused by the false assumption that
pop rocks contain an acid/base mixture
(such as baking soda and vinegar) which
produces large volumes of gas when mixed
through chewing and saliva.
The most
famous of these myths involved a child
named Mikey from the Life cereal
commercials. Mikey was reported to have
died after eating a Space Dust and cola
mixture. The rumour is false and the
former child actor who was in the
commercials, John Gilchrist, is alive and
well.
The TV
series MythBusters examined the rumor by
mixing Space Dust and cola inside a pig's
stomach. The UK television programme
Brainiac: Science Abuse later performed a
similar debunking using a female
volunteer.
The
American pop-punk band Green Day wrote a
song called "pop-rocks and
coke".
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