{"id":6116,"date":"2025-03-25T07:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2025-03-25T07:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:32:17","slug":"mentos-blasts-into-fortnite-with-the-fizzooka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=6116","title":{"rendered":"Mentos Blasts Into Fortnite With The \u2018Fizzooka\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For those of us old enough to remember pop culture in the 90s and early aughts, Perfetti Van Melle\u2019s Mentos was top of mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The brand set out to move past a solid but middle-of-the-road status among the crowded gum and mints category with a series of seemingly bizarre\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JqgqgcE8Zck?si=wPzCXlHpsZf1BXmt\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ads<\/a>\u00a0in which folks confront mundane inconveniences, all solved after popping a Mentos into their mouth. Every ad ended with the advert\u2019s protagonist mugging to the screen, holding a tube of Mentos, and giving the camera a thumbs up. Part of the campaign\u2019s success was the addition of somewhat nonsensical lyrics set to a catchy earwig of a tune.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/mentos-blasts-into-fortnite-with-the-fizzooka\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us old enough to remember pop culture in the 90s and early aughts, Perfetti Van Melle\u2019s Mentos was top of mind.\u00a0 The brand set out to move past a solid but middle-of-the-road status among the crowded gum and mints category with a series of seemingly bizarre\u00a0ads\u00a0in which folks confront mundane inconveniences, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[2156,2157],"class_list":["post-6116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-fortnite","tag-mentos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}