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30 August 2007, 09:39 AM
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Break a windshield with Jolly Rancher candy
Comment: Can a Jolly Rancher candy - if put on windshield when wet, break
your windshield when you pull it off. Some kids seem to think this works and it's been done around here. 
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30 August 2007, 11:00 AM
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I don't know jolly rancher in itself but some sweets definately have the bonding strength to do this. The real question would be how much muscle would you have to put behind the pulling to actually break the windscreen? If it happened I would imagine it more as cracking the windscreen while trying to lever it off with a windscreen scraper or something.
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30 August 2007, 11:21 AM
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I don't know if it's true, but I'd really like to try this. Can we still get Jolly Ranchers in this country? I haven't seem them for ages and I quite like them. Apart from the watermelon flavour, yuk!
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30 August 2007, 01:05 PM
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I would think you would want to pour hot water on the candy until it melted and scrap it off. Heat melted it on, heat will take it off.
Now if it was put on in the heat of the day and froze during the night, I wouldn't recommend hot water..... 
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30 August 2007, 03:03 PM
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That happened to me once, when I tried to take it off with a hammer....
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30 August 2007, 06:04 PM
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I don't know and I'm not going to check. I once got into an argument as to whether a bb gun would put a hole in a windshied. I proved myself wrong and had a hole in my windshield to prove it.
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30 August 2007, 07:06 PM
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I remember the original "Fire Stix" (cinnamon flavor) and "Butter Stix (butterscotch flavor). Haven't seen either in many, many years.
I'm not willing to donate my windshield for a test. Y'all go right ahead...
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30 August 2007, 09:52 PM
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30 August 2007, 10:09 PM
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Wow snopes, did you do that on purpose or was it the world's weirdest coincidence?
The background map used as wallpaper for this category is for the small town of Schertz, Texas just a couple miles north of San Antonio. The placement of the red star or the 'you are here star' is exactly where Mamaduck and my father work right off of FM 3009 just before the first set of railroad tracks. It's like you typed the address in and pulled up the map and used it for the background!  
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30 August 2007, 11:41 PM
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31 August 2007, 04:04 AM
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OK, I'm done now...I'll return you back to the original intent of this thread. 
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31 August 2007, 08:19 AM
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Does anyone else keep reading this thread title as "break wind with a jolly rancher"?
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31 August 2007, 03:51 PM
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My folks used to live not too far north of the Jolly Rancher factory in Denver. If the wind was just right and you stood on their back deck, you could smell what flavor the factory was making.
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31 August 2007, 06:02 PM
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They use something very like a partially melted Jolly Rancher to remove crowns during fitting. During fitting, the crown has no adhesive, but they can fit so well that only something like a melted and then resolidified hard candy can pull hard enough to get the crown off.
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02 September 2007, 02:10 AM
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Cool! As far as I've heard it's just unwrapping the candy and laying it on the windshield, letting it melt, and then letting it harden again. I've heard of using a tiny bit of gum to hold the jolly rancher on until it melts. You know, in the pursuit of science you should see which flavor is the strongest 
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02 September 2007, 03:24 AM
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02 September 2007, 03:34 AM
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09 September 2007, 05:10 AM
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Well, my Science Experiment is off to an abysmal start...I've hit a dozen stores in the area & no one seems to carry Jolly Rancher hard candies anymore. The new soft ones, yes, but I suspect that experiment would be far less impressive. :/
More as it develops.
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09 September 2007, 05:12 AM
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- snopes
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