this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2025
589 points (96.7% liked)

memes

15236 readers
4323 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/AdsNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SandraBollocks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the popular idea is that Mentos reacts with Diet Coke, not regular Coke, but apparently people mainly use diet because it doesn't leave as much of a sticky mess afterwards.

[–] brosaph@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I assume they meant diet coke as it's known to be more reactive than regular coke.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

According to Steve Spangler, he used Diet Coke ~~not because it’s more reactive, but~~ because it didn’t contain sugar , and thus made cleanup much easier than with regular coke.

Found it, and I was slightly mistaken:

Why should you use diet soda? The simple answer is that it just works better than regular soda. Some people speculate that it has something to do with artificial sweeteners. More importantly, diet soda does not leave a sticky mess to have to clean up. Hey, that’s important for your clean up! [Source]

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

Anyone who thinks diet soda doesn't leave a sticky mess has never spilled a diet soda before.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'd guess that it's because the diet stuff doesn't have as much corn syrup which would inhibit the foaming

[–] gilgameth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

THE BEST username, bravo.