If I remember right from a video back when mentos and Coke was all the rage, it wasn't just the texture of the mentos but there was also a chemical reaction in the combination of the two is what led to the violent reaction.

Even if it didn't change the texture, it wouldn't be a sudden explosion, but a slow release. The ice would melt off, slowly exposing the surface of the Mentos. To get the explosion they want you have to throw the Mentos in quickly.

Ok ok, plan B then:

We freeze the end of a rope in ice that they unknowingly throw in their drink. The other end of the rope holds a bucket of water above the chair they sit in. Once the ice melts, the rope will slip out and the water will come down on them. They will never know what happened!

Smh soda needs to get on board and stop being a little bitch with its soda-tongue pickiness. Try something new, soda.

It’s actually a self-prank

People drink soda other places than indoors.

I'm more wondering how you freeze them all so without dissolving.

No. As the soda would lose most of the carbonation pouring it into the glass

No, for several reasons.

Ice would expose mentos way too slowly. Mentos being in water and freezing would have already removed the texture that makes it work to begin with. By the time the ice melted enough a lot of the carbonation would have already escaped the soda. One mentor isn't enough to cause much reaction. The soda would be cold from the ice and that slows the release of the cO2....

Well you just trick them into microwaving their soda!

https://youtu.be/VaqdQhuvPi8?t=8

I have friends that would ask the same question in the same confused tone, and I love it