Soda and Pop Rocks

Pop Rocks is a carbonated candy with ingredients including sugar, lactose (milk sugar), corn syrup, and flavoring. It differs from typical hard candy in that it creates a fizzy reaction when it dissolves in one’s mouth.

Pop Rocks Urban Legend:
 The legend is simple. If you eat Pop Rocks with soda, then you explode. Coke is the favorite legend, but others say milk, root beer, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Zima or Mountain Dew.

Urban Legend:  FALSE

Mikey from the Life cereal commercials hates everything, except Pop Rocks. He gorges himself with the candy (He’s rich from doing the commercials and spends all his money on Pop Rocks) and washes it down with a soda. The chemical reaction in his stomach causes an eruption and he explodes.

Mikey Likes It!

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Background and history

The concept was patented by General Foods research chemist William A. Mitchell in 1957. The candy was first offered to the public in 1975. In 1983, General Foods withdrew the product owing to its lack of success in the marketplace and to its relatively short shelf life.

Distribution was initially controlled to ensure freshness; but with its increasing popularity, unauthorized redistribution from market to market resulted in out-of-date product reaching consumers. After that, Kraft Foods licensed the Pop Rocks brand to Zeta Espacial S.A. who continued manufacturing the product under Kraft’s license. Eventually Zeta Espacial S.A. became the brand’s owner and sole manufacturer. Pop Rocks is distributed in the U.S. by Pop Rocks Inc. (Atlanta, Georgia) and by Zeta Espacial S.A. (Barcelona, Spain) in the rest of the world. Zeta Espacial S.A. also sells popping candy internationally under other brands including Peta Zetas, Fizz Wiz and Magic Gum.

In 2008, Dr. Marvin J. Rudolph, who led the group assigned to bring Pop Rocks out of the laboratory and into the manufacturing plant, wrote a history of Pop Rocks development. The book, titled Pop Rocks: The Inside Story of America’s Revolutionary Candy, was based on interviews with food technologists, engineers, marketing managers, and members of Billy Mitchell’s family, along with the author’s experience. In the book, Dr. Rudolph points out that the Turkish company HLEKS Popping Candy flooded the market with popping candy in the year 2000, and have since become the international market leader, with more advanced and own patents making a lot of innovative products with popping candy.

A similar product, Cosmic Candy, previously called Space Dust, was in powdered form and was also manufactured by General Foods.

In 2012, Cadbury Schweppes Pty. Ltd. (in Australia) began producing a chocolate product named “Marvellous Creations Jelly Popping Candy Beanies” which contains popping candy, jelly beans and beanies (candy covered chocolate).By 2013 Whittakers (New Zealand) had also released a local product (white chocolate with a local carbonated drink “Lemon and Paeroa’ or “L&P” for short). Prominent British chef Heston Blumenthal has also made several desserts incorporating popping candy, both for the peculiar sensory experience of the popping and for the nostalgia value of using an ingredient popular in the 1970s.

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Count Chocula cereal

1970s *Count Chocula*, *Franken Berry* & *Boo Berry* Monster Breakfast Cereal Commercial.

Mascot: Cartoon vampire;
The name is a pun
on the vampire
Count Dracula
Voiced by Larry Kenney impersonating Bela Lugosi
Introduced: 1971
Availability: Still in production seasonally
Tagline: I want to eat your cereal!
(1971–2010)

The General Mills Corporation’s monster-themed breakfast cereals, officially referred to collectively as the Monster Cereals, are five current, and formerly-distributed, breakfast cereal brands in North America. The series includes Count Chocula, Franken Berry, and Boo-Berry, in addition to the long-discontinued, but temporarily resurrected, Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy.

In October 1971, the first two cereals in the line were introduced, Count Chocula and the strawberry-flavored Franken Berry. In the commercials, the two monsters would engage in comic bickering over which cereal was better than the other when something or someone else interfered in their verbal sparring and scares them out of their wits.

In February 1972, Franken Berry cereal included an indigestible pigment that turned some children’s feces pink, a symptom sometimes referred to as “Franken Berry Stool.” Boo-Berry, reputedly the first blueberry-flavored cereal, was released in 1973, and Fruit Brute the following year. Fruit Brute was discontinued by 1982 and replaced in 1987 by Fruity Yummy Mummy, which also had a short life as it was discontinued in 1992.

In 2010, Betty Crocker released Franken Berry and Boo-Berry Fruit Roll-Ups. General Mills released Count Chocula cereal bars.

Since 2010, Franken Berry, Boo-Berry, and Count Chocula cereals are manufactured and sold only for a few months during the autumn/Halloween season in September and October. These cereals are neither made nor sold the rest of the year. As of late 2010, information such as nutrition data and historical factoids can still be found on the official General Mills website at all times of the year.

In August 2013, it was revealed on Dinosaur Dracula that for the first time in history, General Mills was releasing all five monster cereals for purchase during the Halloween season. Both Fruit Brute, which was being released for the first time in 31 years and Fruity Yummy Mummy, which was being released for the first time in 21 years, would also receive updated packaging like the other cereals. Additionally, it was revealed on I-Mockery that special retro edition boxes of all five cereals with their original packaging art would be sold exclusively at Target.

In 2014, General Mills enlisted the help of DC Comics to create new designs for the cereals in time for that Halloween. The designs, revealed on August 6, consisted of a Boo Berry design by Jim Lee, a Count Chocula design by Terry Dodson and a Franken Berry design by Dave Johnson

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Janet had some Good Times

Little Janet tear jerkin’ on Good Times.

Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on CBS. It was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by Norman Lear, the series’ primary executive producer. Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which is itself a spin-off of All in the Family.

Notable guest stars

Louis Gossett, Jr. as Florida’s brother, Wilbert
  • Debbie Allen as J.J.’s drug-addicted fiancee, Diana in “J.J.’s Fiancee (Parts 1 & 2)” (season 3)
  • Matthew “Stymie” Beard (former Our Gang child actor) in five episodes, including four appearances as James’ friend Monty
  • Sorrell Booke as Mr. Galbraith, J.J.’s boss at the ad agency (season 5, episode 17)
  • Roscoe Lee Browne as a shady televangelist Reverend Sam “the Happiness Man”, who befriended James in the military (season 1, episode 4)
  • T. K. Carter as J.J.’s friend “Head” (part of the “Awesome Foursome”, later the “Gleesome Threesome”, the “Gruesome Twosome” and the “Lonesome Onesome”, as stated in the episode “The New Car”
  • Rosalind Cash as Thelma’s teacher, Jessica Bishop, who becomes romantically involved with a much younger J.J. (season 4, episode 3)
  • Gary Coleman as Gary, a sharp-tongued classmate of Penny’s in two season five episodes
  • Conchata Ferrell as Miss Johnson, Willona’s supervisor at her short-lived second job as security in a department store (season 5, episode 6)
  • Kim Fields (real-life daughter of Chip Fields) as Penny’s friend, Kim, who has a tendency to add the suffix “-ness” to emphasize her anxiety such as “hopelessnessness” (2 season 6 episodes)
  • Carl Franklin as Larry, Thelma’s fiance’, ultimately breaking up when Larry is offered a job on the West Coast and Thelma is not ready to accompany him (2 episodes)
  • Alice Ghostley as a social worker who is working on Penny being adopted by Willona (3 episodes)
  • Ron Glass as Michael’s elementary school principal (2.4); also made an appearance as a blind encyclopedia salesman who tries to swindle the Evans family (2.8)
  • Louis Gossett, Jr., in season two as Thelma’s much-older paramour, which Florida and James object to their relationship because of the age difference (2.6); also appears as Uncle Wilbert (Florida’s brother), who comes from Detroit to look in on the family while James is away (3.8)
  • Robert Guillaume as Fishbone the wino in the episode “Requiem for a Wino” (season 5, episode 11)
  • Phillip Baker Hall as Motel Owner in the episode “J.J.’s Fiancee (Part 2)” (season 3, episode 18)
  • Shirley Hemphill as “Roz”, the dimwitted sister of Edna, who was being tutored by Thelma (season 4, episode 10)
  • Gordon Jump as Mr. Rogers, the head of security at Willona’s short-lived second job as security in a department store (season 5, episode 6)
  • Paula Kelly as Dr. Kelly in the episode “Where Have All The Doctors Gone” (season 6, episode 17)
  • Jay Leno as “Young Man” in the season three’s “J.J. in Trouble”, which was one of the first times that the subject of “VD” (STD) was addressed on a primetime series
  • Calvin Lockhart as Florida’s cousin Raymond, who earned his riches by betting on horses (season 6, episode 23)
  • Paul Mooney as “The Second Guy” in the episode “J.J. and T.C.” (season 6)
  • Debbi Morgan as Samantha, a date of J.J.’s (3.23); and as Ellen (4.18)
  • J. A. Preston as Walter Ingles in the episode “Wilona’s Dilemma” (season 3, episode 10)
  • Charlotte Rae as a hiring manager for a sales job that Florida stole from James (season 2, episode 14)
  • Sheryl Lee Ralph as Vanessa in the episode “J.J. and The Plumber’s Helper” (season 6, episode 9)
  • Philip Michael Thomas as Eddie, Thelma’s college-age boyfriend (season 1, episode 6)
  • Adam Wade as successful businessman Frank Mason, Willona’s boyfriend (2 season 5 episodes)
  • Vernee Watson-Johnson as Thelma’s friend and college mate Valerie, in the episode “Thelma’s African Romance (Part 1)” (season 4)
  • Carl Weathers as Calvin Brooks, husband of the ‘nude’ model for J.J.’s painting (season 2, episode 16)
  • Hal Williams as one of the movers in a season one episode; James’ friend, Willie Washington (season 2); and Mr. Mitchell, the father of Earl Mitchell, who is an art student of J.J.’s (season 6)
  • John Witherspoon as Officer Lawson in the episode “A Matter of Mothers” (season 6, episode 20)

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Janet get here A Game on…

Esther Rolle Florida Evans
John Amos James Evans, Sr.
Ja’net Dubois Willona Woods
Jimmie Walker James “J.J.” Evans, Jr.
Ralph Carter Michael Evans
Bern Nadette Stanis* Thelma Evans Anderson
Johnny Brown Nathan Bookman
Janet Jackson Millicent “Penny” Gordon Woods
Ben Powers Keith Anderson

The Funtastic Adventure begins

Viral videos, Funny Memes, Epic fails and auto tuned everything, Where would we be without all the great Pop culture media that has effected us in such a profound way?

Well, one thing is for sure, lots of the funny memes were inspired by popular and obscure movie dialogue one liners, dumb commercials and video games. It is often fun to find out the original source of the memes that a lot of us know and love.

But without the original source there would be no remix or mashup. So we say “thanks” to the creators of memorable Pop culture media.

“This little diddy is dedicated to the story tellers.”

JedihSquad

Don’t even trip on the Monster Squad. The M. Squad is down. My boys get mad props…

But without OG heavy weights such as Mary Shelley, Bram stoker and the like… the Monster Squad might not exist.

Hats off with much respect to the kind folks that imagine, write down, record and share your story’s. Thank you for taking the time to imagine incredible things and share amazing real life experiences. Cheers to the fine people that have dedicated there time and energy to creating artistic works. keep writing and recording music, keep those Indie flicks comin’ kid!

              Where would we be without great art, music or films?

One thing is for sure, We wouldn’t be who we are today.

“In every journey comes a moment… one like no other. And in that moment, you must decide between who you are… and who you want to be.” ― J.C. Marino

Most of us have a few story’s to tell. Some are funny, others sad but a good story is a magical thing when shared properly.

Many decades brought us great art and culture but the 80s in particular brought us some great Kid adventure flicks.

The Goonies (1985)

Why it’s still cool: It’s got secret caves, Lost maps, Shuffles and Sloth.
Be warned: That line about being “our time” might put a lump in your throat.
Shout out: “Heyyyyy Youuuuu Guyyyyyyys”… lol, frickin awesome

The Breakfast Club (1985)

Why it’s still cool: it captures the cliques and pressures of the times. Done well.
Be warned: It has some intense scenes and gets emotional at times. Good stuff
Shout out: All involved… Thank you for making this gem. A life changer

The Outsiders (1983)

Why it’s still cool: It has a great texture and vibe to the film, very angst ridden.
Be warned: A few peeps get jacked up in this Bee-I-ITCH!!!
Shout out: Them are my boys, my dogs. This was the crew!

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Why it’s still cool: It teaches lessons about life while keeping ‘ish fun and exciting.
Be warned: Kids been known to tear up when they see this badboy… tear jerker style
Shout out: Drew is my girl.. I loved you then and I love you know Drew!

Ghostbusters (1984)

Why it’s still cool: The wacky effects are awesome,  the jokes are still dope, Akroyd AND SLIMER?… 5 stars
Be warned: Some spooky ‘ish jumps off in this caper, whatever you do “Don’t cross the streams”.
Shout out: The whole cast, much love!!!

The Princess Bride (1987)

Why it’s still cool: It hands down has some of the funniest one liners of all time. Sick!
Be warned: this movie will burn itself into your heart and mind. It will stay with you forever.
Shout out: Andre R.I.P, they don’t makem like that anymore.

Beetlejuice (1988)

Why it’s still cool: It’s a cult classic, It’s kooky and fun as hell. A fun ride.
Be warned: Winona created a Goth explosion with this one. Big time.
Shout out: My boy B Jizzy brought the heat, Keaton is a beast.

Flight Of The Navigator (1986)

Why it’s still cool: It’s got robots and wacky creatures for days.
Be warned: It may be a turd that they spit shined, but hey its old school.
Shout out: My boy Pee Wizzle does the voice over for Max… Fresh!

BeatStreet (1984)

Why it’s still cool: The Hip Hop is dope, Sweet MCs and great battles!
Be warned: watching this flick will make you want to break out the cardboard dancefloor.
Shout out: Melle Mel, Soul Sonic Force, Afrika Bam., NYC Breakers… NUFF SAID

Gremlins (1984)

Why it’s still cool: It’s really got some cool effects and a great message.
Be warned: These grems are out to party, I’m talkin blunts, stunts and false fronts!
Shout: All them cats, Great cast… special shout out to the creature creators.

Special shout outs on a very incomplete list:

Purple Rain (A game changer)

Back to the future (no explanation needed)

Fast times at Ridgemont high (Spicolli, Lol)

The Lost Boys (Bad azz flick)

Ferris Bueller (Bueller?Bueller?)

 Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it

Vaudeville, Bigfoot and Fairies…Good stuff!

Back in the day we before YouTube and meme sites that provide us with instant satisfaction… well, wee might have had to wait a while to hear a good story. I’m talking about way back… Like frazzled Cavemen returning to tell tales by fire light of gigantic lizards and man eating plants.

Old worn Cowboys with tales of shoot outs and lost gold…

Scurvy Pirates with tales of gigantic sea monsters and mermaids a’plenty.

Long live the local pickled home town story tellers:

Let us not forget the neighborhood hero’s… The old pirates that had been out at sea to long, our beer and cheeba powered black sheep uncles and local winos that brought us the beautiful urban tales and hood story’s after a few 40’s that were to good to be true but yet somehow filled our heads and hearts with thrills, chills and possibilities.

I’m talkin’ bout old Hillbilly’s that tell stories of encounters with Bigfoot

< Lil Foot aka Fizgig

Fairiesand little English girls that saw Fairies.

The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.

Another lost art in providing stories and entertainment to the public was called Vaudeville.

“Everything I know I learned in vaudeville.”
–James Cagney

At the turn of the century in America, the Wright Brothers made their first successful flight, Jack London wrote Call of the Wild, Henry Ford started his motor company, and thousands of people escaped small apartments in big cities to see the amazing acts of vaudeville. Vaudeville was made of comedians, singers, plate-spinners, ventriloquists, dancers, musicians, acrobats, animal trainers, and anyone who could keep an audience’s interest for more than three minutes. Beginning in the 1880s and through the 1920s, vaudeville was home to more than 25,000 performers, and was the most popular form of entertainment in America. From the local small-town stage to New York’s Palace Theater, vaudeville was an essential part of every community.

Throughout the 1850s and 60s, variety entertainment became popular among the frontier settlements and urban centers. These shows, intended for all-male audiences, were often obscenely comical. In 1881 Tony Pastor, a ballad and minstrel singer, created a variety show for families. Other managers recognized that a wider audience meant more money and followed his lead. With an influx of recent immigrants and quickly growing urban populations, vaudeville soon became a central point for American cultural life.   READ MORE

 

Thank you for joining Jedih Obbit and Blogzilla Rex on the start of this Funtastic adventure. Hopefully the fun will continue and if not at least you will find the rantings and ravings of me, Jedih Obbit… The last Space Cowboy.

Their might quite possibly be some funtastic story’s and outrageous tales provided along the way. Videos, Music, Photos and various contraptions will be provided.

ps. The Wolfman does have nards, true dat.

Yours Unruly,

Jedih Obbit