No, Pop Rocks Did Not Kill Mikey from The Life Cereal Ad
When rumors spread around the playground in 1979 that Mikey, the kid from the Life cereal commercial, had been killed from a fatal mix of Pop Rocks and Coca-Cola, I thought only of myself.
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‘Mikey Likes It’: The Origins of Life Cereal’s Most Famous Slogan
Say the phrase Mikey likes it to anyone between the ages of 40 and 100, and chances are good they’ll get the reference. It immediately brings to mind an incredibly popular commercial from the ...