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MojoMan, dude I remember those things! I still have one of the sets in a corner of my bedroom! The candy tasted like rubber, but the texture/colors/shapes were cool so it didn't matter. And I made it myself, and it was the brain of the creature, so nyeh!
Dino, then wouldn't flour dust burn even more quickly, because the particles are even smaller? Couldn't it theoretically burn so quickly that it seemed to explode? There's gotta be some truth to the myth.
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It doesn't really burn very well... try it for yourself. Get out some pocket fire (a lighter) and attempt to burn a small pile of it on a plate. You'll probably notice that it sort of singes and blackens, and you get the odd flame or two, but if you sprinkle some into a flame it burns up quite easily.
I'm going to try lighting it again, just to see if I've made an error somewhere along the line... but I'm pretty sure that I'm right here. It's certainly not the impact sensitive unstable organic explosive that your friend makes it out to be. God knows, we'd be a few hundred million short of old grannies baking pies if the stuff was explosive. If it really did burn like petrol, I for one certainly wouldn't be putting it in an oven.