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web video shows how to make fountains with candies and colas

To create fountains, drop Mentos candies into 2 litre bottles of coke and watch as the soda shoots skyward. For the messy technique, thank Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz.

The two performers appeared in a three - minute internet video on www.eepybird.com in which they don goggles and lab coats and show the world how to create the geysers. The resulting 20 foot blasts have captured the imagination of millions.

The two began experimenting eight weeks ago after voltz learned that cola plus candy equals a frothy mess. Its an old trick, but the pair took it to new extremes.

Grobe, a juggler and voltz, a trial lawyer, enlisted Mike Miclon, the owner of the theatre where they perform, to operate the camera and a friend to create the toe-tapping techno music sound track.

The result is there video, which features 523 Mentos causing 101 bottles of Diet coke to erupt.

Any kind of soft drink will work. The video has had 4 million hits on the web since it was posted on june 3.

Coke and mentos have embraced the phenomenon. Mentos , a subsidiary of perfetti usa, features the video on its website, and a coca cola. people are having fun with it.

"you never can tell what's going to capture people's imagination". For the record , they noted, people won't suffer harm from chomping Mentos and washing it down with Diet coke.

"you can look forward to something pretty amazing".