In order to get Pop Rocks on the shelves, someone had to lose a finger. Back in 1975, General Foods executives thought they had struck gold with the candy, a pebble-sized shell holding carbon dioxide ...

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 ...

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 ...