Gallery: Meet the Mad Scientists Who Invented Edible Fireworks
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Sam Bompas and Harry Parr are mad food scientists.
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This past NYE they created a multi-sensory fireworks display. Here you see banana-flavored confetti showering the audience.
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Strawberry smoke accompanied red-colored fireworks.
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Working with flavor scientists to create intense smells and flavors for the show.
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They collaborated with pyrotechnics experts to figure out how to synchronize the fireworks with the taste and smell components.
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Sketching ideas.
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More than a quarter million people experienced Bompas & Parr's edible fireworks.
