I also can’t get too morally superior at Gen Z about tide pods because I would occasionally go lick AA batteries in the basement as a kid yes I know fucking explains a lot - ThreadSky

faineg.bsky.social • 602 days ago

I also can’t get too morally superior at Gen Z about tide pods because I would occasionally go lick AA batteries in the basement as a kid

yes I know fucking explains a lot

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fooddatanerd.com•602 days ago

My dad taught us to lick 9-volt batteries to see if they were still good.

bailorg.bsky.social•602 days ago

Sniffed way too many markers

dwaynefuhlhage.bsky.social•602 days ago

Early model Gen X here... we licked those 9V batteries. That could explain a lot.

Cleaning engine blocks with leftover chemicals from my dad's workplace probably didn't help.

szstrw.bsky.social•602 days ago

If it didn't have a Mr. Yuk sticker you were good to go.

riccisergienko.bsky.social•602 days ago

That’s how you test them right

horsecourser.bsky.social•602 days ago

the forbidden tootsie roll

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•602 days ago

😂

condourama.com•602 days ago

9 volt was more fun, you could shock your tongue

natania.bsky.social•602 days ago

Also ate a lot of paste in kindergarten, the kind that they gave us in little film cannisters.

srobalino.bsky.social•602 days ago

I never ate that but loved the smell. Why can’t I get that paste to sniff?

faineg.bsky.social•602 days ago

Elmer’s glue squeeze bottle on your hand, let it dry, pick it off, eat a little snack

surrealentropy.bsky.social•602 days ago

It’s ground up horses just like the gelatin in fruit snacks; sort of fit between those and string cheese iirc.

hillarymonahan.bsky.social•602 days ago

Play dough was chow time.

natania.bsky.social•602 days ago

I hated it but I also had to gnaw.

adigoesswimming.bsky.social•602 days ago

As a baby I would pitch myself forward at the beach to chomp sand. The first couple times my mom thought I fell. Nope. Deliberate.

hillarymonahan.bsky.social•602 days ago

We had a crayon eater, too.

ndgree.bsky.social•602 days ago

Peel yes, eat no.

sanfranscot.bsky.social•602 days ago

I eat haggis … top that

natania.bsky.social•602 days ago

I’m love good haggis!

sanfranscot.bsky.social•602 days ago

Agreed haggis good

palfriendpatine.bsky.social•602 days ago

lmao same also the rubber cement stuff was strangely enticing

brooklynmarie.bsky.social•602 days ago

I used to play in those darkroom chemical baths

kriswernowsky.com•602 days ago

Riding bike behind small-town Missouri mosquito fogging truck and swimming in the Mississippi River have made me invincible

lauramarie.bsky.social•602 days ago

I ate hot dogs raw, straight out of the package

babblingfringe.bsky.social•602 days ago

We never had one of those tester strips! It helps me figure out which mismatched batteries would work in stuff!
That trick kept my radio AND my gameboy going

babblingfringe.bsky.social•602 days ago

Also it meant that everything else in the house had batteries that were constantly dying without warning.

jesszimmerman.com•602 days ago

One of my teachers had to make a rule that nobody else could go to the nurse for a stomachache from chewing too much paper

drandrewthaler.bsky.social•602 days ago

FYSA: this article is from 1982.

The Boomers are the OG Tide Pod eaters.

chrishornb.bsky.social•602 days ago

...Gen X, you mean.

drandrewthaler.bsky.social•602 days ago

I do not.

chrishornb.bsky.social•602 days ago

ok boomer

drandrewthaler.bsky.social•602 days ago

Go format a PDF.

sanho.bsky.social•602 days ago

I was a junior in high school in Northern Virginia at the time. This was a thing.😂🙄

heididuncanson.bsky.social•602 days ago

Don’t forget sniffing the freshly mimeographed worksheets in elementary school!

smokedaddy.bsky.social•602 days ago

So that’s why none of my flashlights worked!

forgotherface.bsky.social•602 days ago

If you don't know what Comet tastes like, have you even lived?

openeroftheway.com•602 days ago

I used to electrocute pencil leads on my bathroom counter as a child. There is still a thin film of graphene in some spots

openeroftheway.com•602 days ago

And when I say “electrocute” I mean I stripped the ends off of a lamp plug wire and used mains current

apsciencebylyn.bsky.social•602 days ago

I ate a clump of dirt. More than once.

I used to chew on those old coat hangers which had a rolled paper thing on the bottom which looks like a long-ass cigar.

I was a normal kid

(I was not)

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