82 year old grandmother tries pop rocks for the first time

In this 2009 video, an 82 year old grandmother tries pop rocks candies for the first time and evinces delight and surprise at their fizzling, crackling action.

82 year old tryin pop rocks (via The Mary Sue)

• [mguffin]

  At about 1.50ish:  Grandmother: “Don’t take pictures of me doing this..” Grandson “I’m not…” (That’s “Grandson” as in “bit of a mannerless douche”, no?)

• [thisbikeisatardis]

  Oh, how delightful. I miss my grandma. 

• [BarBarSeven]

  Hey, something went wrong with the headline; it should read: “82 year old grandmother tries pop rocks for the first time, dies”

• [semiotix]

  The possibilities here are endless. I look forward to a whole series of “82 year old grandmother tries _____ for the first time” videos, including

  • ecstasy
  • Wu-Tang Clan
  • Craigslist “casual encounters”
  • hentai
  • arson

  • [mguffin]

    She doesn’t need really to try arson because there’s an arson the other end of the camera already…

• [tristan eldritch]

  It’s a nice video, no doubt, but they seem a bit pushy – like they’re trying to get her hooked, or I dunno, very anxious to have a Funny Grandma Video for posterity.

• [gothevole]

  Oh jeez, another “look how cute granny is” video. As if being older than 70 (or older than the creator of the video) makes the subject something less than a person — something to be laughed at and treated as entertainment. 
  And this makes the pages of boingboing? 

  • [calf]

    My internal responses while watching this video—emotional, intellectual, mnemonic—were a few orders deeper and richer than your dismissive, narrow, and shallow interpretation of both the video and how people are reading it. That you used the phrase “laughed at” tells me how distorted your lens is. Relax, yo, and maybe learn to play again.

    • [gothevole]

      The fact that this video was even made and posted speaks volumes about our dismissive attitude towards older people and women in general. They are the next lolcat craze. See granny try some new food. See granny do something everyone else does—but let’s film it and make a big deal about it. 
      This society has a problem with age. We don’t treat older people with the same degree of respect as we do younger people. They are either overly admired or made into caricatures. People aren’t even comfortable with older people’s sexuality–see the disgusting snarky comment about blow jobs and tongue kissing on a later post.

      My point was simply that it does older (and younger ) people a disservice to treat older people as “cute” and not as the whole person they really are.

      I do relax and play, but hopefully not at someone else’s expense.

• [chaopoiesis]

  Is there a gap in the language?

  Per Wikipedia a psychoactive or psychotropic is “a chemical substance that crosses the blood–brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior”.

  So what is the technical term for substances that don’t cross the blood-brain barrier, like pop rocks, hot sauce, and cupcakes?

• [Muscato]

  So have I missed something until now – are Cute Old Lady videos now a thing, like small animals falling asleep and children falling off things?  I don’t suppose I’m surprised; if anything, it’s kind of nice to see a real old-fashioned old lady (as opposed to a terrifyingly active Senior heading out on an Elderhostel holiday or joining the OWS kids or whatever…

• [แอ็ะปปี้]

  My 80-year-old grandmother tried Mountain Dew for (supposedly) the first time last week. It was EXTREME. (No, we did not film it.)

• [creativehumanoid]

  Oh my, I just had the most amazing overlap of Boing Boing stories.

  I was watching this video and mistakenly left the V-12 engine video running in the background. The “wonders of discovery” music from the V-12 video was playing as grandma was discovering the joys of Pop Rocks. Start the grandma video about 15 to 30 seconds after the V-12 video and check it out.

  (I keep making edits.) Don’t let the V-12 music drown out the grandma video – you need to hear her laughing.

  It’s Disney-esque (or Pixar-esque).

  (Reminds me of the Wizard of Oz/Dark Side of the Moon effect, which I still haven’t tried.)

• [EH]

  Soooo, people who aren’t allowed to own pets are now turning on the elderly?

• [neurolux]

  I was amused thinking of this as going back in time 60 years an introducing Pop Rocks to a young woman for the first time.  Her reaction might be the same.

• [Guest]

  You forgot to add the video where they gave her pop rocks and a can of soft drink.

  • [Labbit]

    Or a handful of Mentos washed down with Diet Coke :)

• [Kosima]

  The woman in the video was 46 when pop rocks became ubiquitous. Kind of amazing that she just encountered them for the first time. Doesn’t this video fit under the rubric of: aren’t old ladies hilarious in their cluelessness? Oh and they have to be “grandmothers,” too. Can’t be elderly scientists or authors. Nope. Cuddly old grandmothers. What a laugh. As one commenter indicated above, it’s scary and unappealing when elderly women are still part of the life of the world, part of an Occupy demo, for instance. Shudder.

• [msbpodcast]

  Hey, what the Hell? 

  She’s over 80 years old so the fact that its no good for her is probably going to elicit a shrug and a sigh.

  THAT’S the kind of people PopRocks should be advertising to … your kids, not so much….

• [Doug Nelson]

  Now I know I’ve seen too much porn, cuz that just reminded me of the moneyshot from every porn scene in the last 5 years (and not in a good way). Esp. when she opened her mouth to prove she’d eaten some.

• [LogrusZed]

  Whoever said “you need to get them in your mouth to taste them” should be slapped.

• [Guest]

  did she died?