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On Mythbusters Jamie didn't swallow the Mentos, he just put them in his mouth. If the guy on YouTube swallowed some of the chewed Mentos and then managed to swallow some Coke then he might well have been suffering some discomfort.

I know he didn't swallow them. In referencing the episode I was referring to the finding that it was the surface of the candy that caused the particularly sudden reaction. If you chew it up, you still get the foaming effect, but now that those little 'bumps' (can't remember what they called the effect) are no longer there, it won't be as sudden.

I'm probably wrong, though