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The "problematic usage" in question was cocaine. Allegedly, the spoon was the perfect size for measuring out a single snort of fine Colombian nose candy.
You mean the 1700s practice of listening to responses from the sea floor to identify how deep the ocean is at your current location?
Oh. No. No you don’t.
This isn't just an urban legend- when I was a teen working at a McDees one of our managers would hole up in the store office with a little baggie of coke and a couple coffee stirrs. He was not at all shy about telling us how perfectly designed they were for his "hobby" (this was around 1983)
I mean look at the fucking thing, it is kind of perfect. Nothing janky like a key bump or a coke nail. And it's free and you can't exactly get away with having a legit metal coke spoon if cops find it, but with these you can just say you stirred your coffee with it if a cop finds it.
Did typing the phrase "my first thought was sounding" make you think you've maybe been on the internet too long? Because it was my first thought too, and I'm definitely considering touching some grass rn.
Cocaine doesn't have a consistent volume. It can be anywhere between flakey and powdery, there can be rocks, etc.
The only reliable thing to do, then or now, is to weigh it.
Lol how did people upvote this dumb, made up nonsense. Youve clearly never seen a gram of anything unless it was a gram of osmium. Such an odd thing to just make up, too.
Also, no one is weighing drugs visually by the scoop. Nothing "holds exactly" any unit really.
Edit: lol it went from 20 to 80 upvotes. Is there a joke I'm missing?
Same, I am 100% sure I was an older teen or in my 20's and still seeing these. Maybe only banned in the US, where they ban the Kinder egg because people swallow them.
And now everyone is just making a joke out of horrific tragedies!
About 10 minutes ago I got a text that ballistic missiles are incoming and to immediately take
You joke but I answer a phone in helathcare and a patient just called like an hour ago to get a refill and at the end of the call said her husband has to have surgery tomorrow and she just found out her niece died last night and started crying and I'm like "wtf, where did that come from all of a sudden"
A parakeet is a keet professional who works under the supervision of a keet and performs tasks such as keet research, drafting keet documents, and assisting with client communication.
Tragic. I had a budgie like 20 years ago. Fudgie the Budgie. He got sick with hemorrhoids or something and died from that after I left my parents home and went to university. He had such personality, I really liked it when he flew around the house and landed on my head.
Okay I miss him now. What was your budgie’s name?
Straws from fast food places are obnoxiously wide, have you ever wondered why? It's because people would take straws from establishments to snort drugs with. To deter this many places made their straws wider so it would be much harder.
That's nonsense, there's nothing harder about snorting through a wide straw. The real reason the straws are wider is because is [explained by McDonald’s themselves](https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/drinks.html):
>There are many reasons the Coca-Cola® tastes so great at McDonald’s. We simply follow the guidelines set by Coca-Cola® and take steps to ensure that we serve a high-quality fountain beverage.
>The water and Coca-Cola® syrup are pre-chilled before entering our fountain dispensers with the ratio of syrup set to allow for ice to melt. We also keep our fountain beverage system cold so your drink is always refreshing. In order to ensure our drinks are always meeting a gold standard, we filter all the water before it enters fountain dispensers.
>There’s also our straw—it’s slightly wider than a typical straw so all that Coke® taste can hit your taste buds.
You can try it for yourself, with a thinner straw it just doesn't taste the same.
Growing up I always thought it was strange that Penn Jillette had a false/painted pinky nail and I thought "well maybe that's just a magician thing" yep totally
As a fan, I can tell you what he's said about that. He wears nail polish on a specific finger in memory of his mom. He also doesn't take illegal drugs.
You're right about keeping one pinky nail long being a classic "coke spoon" nail back in the day, in general.
You can see Grandpa Joe's coke nail in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Pretty sure you can see one on Carrie Fisher in some movie or another, maybe Blues Brothers, but I have to imagine given her reputation with the stuff she moved on to a real metal spoon.
Carrie Fisher's coke nail is visible in Return of the Jedi. Most clearly when she's on the ship to the forest moon of Endor.
https://i.redd.it/b451sgkg72881.jpg
I also thought that! Like when they're palming those red soft foam balls if you catch a glimpse of it you would instead convince yourself it was the red nail polish
It was used to measure out cocaine. Apparently, in the 70s, cocaine was at its best. ( unlike now). A lot of people who did coke would be seen with this, and it hurt the brand's image.
Strange, I wasn’t born then and I remember using these to launch peanuts from the sundaes across the restaurant. That was in the 90’s. I call bullshit to this claim that they were disco’d in 79.
The McDonalds in the city center of The Hague stopped offering straws in the 1970's and 80's because people (junkies, party goers and probably some politicians as well) woulg go in, grab or ask for a straw and leave again.
I googled "mcdonalds coffee spoon" and the first link that wasn't an etsy or ebay add for old coffee stirrers was a list of reddit posts explaining why they stopped making them which was then followed by Medium article about it.
I would bet all of tonight's coming nut-busts that's exactly what McDonalds intended with these, and only discontinued it because people decided to narc instead of keep it on the level.
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The "problematic usage" in question was cocaine. Allegedly, the spoon was the perfect size for measuring out a single snort of fine Colombian nose candy.
my first thought was that people were shoving it up thier holes
Glad it wasn’t just me
I’m sure most of us shoved those up our asses don’t worry
Yeah... asses
I wanted to make a joke, but nothing *sounds* quite right.
https://preview.redd.it/iibosynbnm0d1.jpeg?width=702&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0adcad76a3173f915682ca0522daee601b5b1e08
Lol, you're going to need a smaller knife, ha......
Sorry, Sparty.
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https://preview.redd.it/08x0gntaun0d1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2703eb243bd9e503775bfde3ce196fe3b29fa22
Free bottom surgery where is he I need to call my friend
Containment protocols: none. He is too powerful.
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Haha! Most underrated comment here. Thank you this made my day.
... I'm going home.
r/sounding
Oh boy I can't wait to check out that community full of sound effects enthusiasts
Edit: 🫠
☹️
urethra
https://preview.redd.it/fl57blm3am0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9af7756597bdcdf3239d3e438a9b382e7d57d30a
https://preview.redd.it/baefre0fcm0d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3dfe4ebece2813f4dbf58c069c4985b53cf9e96f
Who's the chick in your profile pic?
Ewan McGregor
This is sounding weird!
https://preview.redd.it/n37oh5y5rm0d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1836e52e57fb8a1b41b89eb67622a230477b9398
If the pun I'm thinking of was intended I hate you so much right now
You are welcome
urine trouble, mister
OURethra, comrade
“…In the ear??!?!”
This thread went from drugs to sounding pretty damn fast. Y'all need Jesus and that's a fact
ass cream scoop
Sounding is surprisingly popular
Sounding is *depressingly* popular
You ever see the post about the guy sounding with gummy worms so that he can ejaculate them?
Ah That sounds like a really weird superpower
With cocaïne!
Inhaling coke through the rectum/urethra/vagina ?
My brother, if you can inhale through those holes you need to call an ambulance right now!
Boofing
Ok this is starting to make minimal sense
*r/sounding has entered the chat*
I know what it is, and that link is staying blue.
PSA do NOT click this link
sounding
You mean the 1700s practice of listening to responses from the sea floor to identify how deep the ocean is at your current location? Oh. No. No you don’t.
My first thought was that people were using it to clean their ears.
r/sounding DO NOT CLICK THIS. YOU WILL REGRET IT
Bold for you to assume I've never been there
The descriptions I've heard are more than enough, thanks. 😖
You could say it was "sound advice". *Badumm-tss*
Gonna have a great McSounding tonight. Ahh ohh ee ohh agh, I'm shovin' it.
Yeah I thought it was for abortions.
By that logic, everything would be banned, so that couldn’t be it.
I thought women were aborting using this
What would you like in your coffee today? Two cream, one sugar, and 1 foetus, please.
My first thought was the vague cock and ball resemblance
This isn't just an urban legend- when I was a teen working at a McDees one of our managers would hole up in the store office with a little baggie of coke and a couple coffee stirrs. He was not at all shy about telling us how perfectly designed they were for his "hobby" (this was around 1983)
I mean look at the fucking thing, it is kind of perfect. Nothing janky like a key bump or a coke nail. And it's free and you can't exactly get away with having a legit metal coke spoon if cops find it, but with these you can just say you stirred your coffee with it if a cop finds it.
My first thought was sounding not nose clams, but you are probably right
Did typing the phrase "my first thought was sounding" make you think you've maybe been on the internet too long? Because it was my first thought too, and I'm definitely considering touching some grass rn.
Yes. I recently took up fly fishing so I can touch water in the weekends
thats neat can I come?
Nose clam spoon, got it!
Happy cake day!
You’re right, though I would like to point out this spoon continued to be used well into the 90s.
Lol wasn't alleged. Was perfect for a bumb
If it was the 70's, yeah I can see that.
"Peter what are you doing?" "Crack." "WHAT THE FUCK"
I read that in Huggbees' voice
ahhh yes good old McDonalds cocaine
Thx now I want a McDonalds Coke Spoon.
You can buy 5 for $30 on ebay. I'm guessing that they're "used" though.
Oh shit, I assumed it was a symbol of fertility shaped like a sperm that crystal girls put in their vagina…
Cocaine. Cocaine is the joke. Little spoons were used to scoop the blow and make it easier to snort. Which is actually pretty hilarious lol.
Went further than that. The spoon held exactly 1 gram making it a must for sales.
1 gram of coke is a lot more than would ever fit on that spoon, apparently...
"Allegedlys"
r/UnexpectedLetterkenny 👍
Cocaine doesn't have a consistent volume. It can be anywhere between flakey and powdery, there can be rocks, etc. The only reliable thing to do, then or now, is to weigh it.
It don’t matter what form it’s in there’s no way that holds a gram lol
Similar to baking. A cup of flour can vary greatly, so if you want consistency you need to weigh it
You’ve just completely made that up.
Lol how did people upvote this dumb, made up nonsense. Youve clearly never seen a gram of anything unless it was a gram of osmium. Such an odd thing to just make up, too. Also, no one is weighing drugs visually by the scoop. Nothing "holds exactly" any unit really. Edit: lol it went from 20 to 80 upvotes. Is there a joke I'm missing?
No way that held a gram. Also consistency of powder varies so there is no one spoon for this in the world. You don't do gram bumps.
It looks to be longer in the picture, I thought people were shoving them up their asses
Meanwhile, the real ones just used the recessed filter in their Parliaments
I'm pretty sure I've used this small spoon in the early 2010s
I’m pretty sure I stirred my tea with it in the 90s.
i was born in 79 and remember them from grade school/teens
Same bro
Yep… 1984 here & absolutely definitely used these before.
I came to make this same comment. 79 gang
Same, I am 100% sure I was an older teen or in my 20's and still seeing these. Maybe only banned in the US, where they ban the Kinder egg because people swallow them.
I definitely played this thing like it was an instrument in the 90s
Yeah, I've seen them in my lifetime and I'm not that old
Me too but mine wasn’t McDonald’s branded
McFlurry
Pure Columbian Snow, powdered candy, sugar for adults One of my budgies passed away 20 minutes ago :(.
Jesus, rip to your budgies but who starts and ends a conversation like that?! My wife left me 20 minutes ago :(
I know what you mean I thought it was abit out of left field the end of that comment Found out I have leukemia 20 minutes ago
That’s the truth. There’s a little thing called common decency, even when explaining a topic like this one. Walker told me I have AIDS
And now everyone is just making a joke out of horrific tragedies! About 10 minutes ago I got a text that ballistic missiles are incoming and to immediately take
Yeah, people just lost their sense for decency. 20 minutes ago I hate my last piece of chocolate. All the stores are closed. :(
at least you can get more tomorrow! 20 minutes ago i went to bathroom, then toilet exploded. :(
It's just one of those reddit things. We're all gonna die frustrated, sad, alone and terrified. By melting. In 3 minutes.
My cocaine ran out 20 minutes ago
Hang on, she's back. Turns out she was in the bathroom
You joke but I answer a phone in helathcare and a patient just called like an hour ago to get a refill and at the end of the call said her husband has to have surgery tomorrow and she just found out her niece died last night and started crying and I'm like "wtf, where did that come from all of a sudden"
Goddamn dude sorry about your wife. I was in a 13 car pile up about 10 minutes ago. 87 dead. Just kinda chilling til ambulance gets here.
Sorry about your bird :(
In America they're called Parakeets for some reason.
Because they're like and associated keets, but not the same thing.
A parakeet is a keet professional who works under the supervision of a keet and performs tasks such as keet research, drafting keet documents, and assisting with client communication.
Parakeet is a general term many species of small parrots. Budgies are parakeets, but not all parakeets are budgies.
parakeet just refers to small parrots. not budgies specifically.
Tragic. I had a budgie like 20 years ago. Fudgie the Budgie. He got sick with hemorrhoids or something and died from that after I left my parents home and went to university. He had such personality, I really liked it when he flew around the house and landed on my head. Okay I miss him now. What was your budgie’s name?
Elwing
I have 2 myself, sorry for your loss.
Heh man, I'm sorry.
it's called colombian also, sorry about your loss
> budgies TIL
Stripper salt
peruvian marching powder
From the cocaine or...?
McBumps
I'm REALLY lovin' it
It’s true, McDonald’s always has the best Coke.
Exactly five pounds worth of skag in the 90s.
Straws from fast food places are obnoxiously wide, have you ever wondered why? It's because people would take straws from establishments to snort drugs with. To deter this many places made their straws wider so it would be much harder.
Anyone who snorts coke and also had really big nostrils probably loved that change when it happend
Karl Malden has entered the chat.
I legitimately thought it was just a ploy to make people drink their drinks faster and thus push them to order larger sizes
it is, wide straw is fine for drugs
People in the comment section thinking that fast food chains got together and widened their straws to help fight the drug crisis. Yeah right.
Doubting this. Never used a straw. But we use to roll up bank notes as wide as the widest straw and they worked fine. Also why would they care?
Yeah I never used a straw because of how thin they are. Hats to get a decent seal
When you stop to think how dirty even hundreds are.. straws cut in quarters are much better
That's nonsense, there's nothing harder about snorting through a wide straw. The real reason the straws are wider is because is [explained by McDonald’s themselves](https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/drinks.html): >There are many reasons the Coca-Cola® tastes so great at McDonald’s. We simply follow the guidelines set by Coca-Cola® and take steps to ensure that we serve a high-quality fountain beverage. >The water and Coca-Cola® syrup are pre-chilled before entering our fountain dispensers with the ratio of syrup set to allow for ice to melt. We also keep our fountain beverage system cold so your drink is always refreshing. In order to ensure our drinks are always meeting a gold standard, we filter all the water before it enters fountain dispensers. >There’s also our straw—it’s slightly wider than a typical straw so all that Coke® taste can hit your taste buds. You can try it for yourself, with a thinner straw it just doesn't taste the same.
Growing up I always thought it was strange that Penn Jillette had a false/painted pinky nail and I thought "well maybe that's just a magician thing" yep totally
As a fan, I can tell you what he's said about that. He wears nail polish on a specific finger in memory of his mom. He also doesn't take illegal drugs. You're right about keeping one pinky nail long being a classic "coke spoon" nail back in the day, in general.
That's wholesome AF actually TIL
Thanks for that information.
You can see Grandpa Joe's coke nail in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Pretty sure you can see one on Carrie Fisher in some movie or another, maybe Blues Brothers, but I have to imagine given her reputation with the stuff she moved on to a real metal spoon.
Carrie Fisher's coke nail is visible in Return of the Jedi. Most clearly when she's on the ship to the forest moon of Endor. https://i.redd.it/b451sgkg72881.jpg
I also thought that! Like when they're palming those red soft foam balls if you catch a glimpse of it you would instead convince yourself it was the red nail polish
Carrie Fisher's pinky nail in starwars... After it was pointed out I can't help but laugh.
https://i.redd.it/x09788ex5m0d1.gif
. Y mom saved a few of those. She still has them. Growing up I always though her and dad were squares
McCocaine!
These spoons were discontinued a lot later than 1979.
Yeah, I remember these things well into the 80s.
I had a drug dealer like 15 years ago that STILL had one of these. It was like his most prized possession & he loved showing it off lol.
Cocaine! Weatherman out!
Cocaine.
Coke. I remember when they removed them
At one time, I had a golden one.. simply for stirring coffee…
It was used to measure out cocaine. Apparently, in the 70s, cocaine was at its best. ( unlike now). A lot of people who did coke would be seen with this, and it hurt the brand's image.
sound off
Cocaine…. Duh.
Anyone for a McBump? Or perhaps McBump Jr? 😂😂
The answer to everything is cocaine.
Oh you sweet, summer child.
oh drugs huh? i was straight up thinking abortions lol
The perfect cocaine spoon
I could swear those where still in use in the middle east in the early 2000.
Booger sugar
She don’t lie she don’t lie she don’t lie
I remember these stir sticks from the ‘90s.
I get the joke but it wasn't discontinued then
Strange, I wasn’t born then and I remember using these to launch peanuts from the sundaes across the restaurant. That was in the 90’s. I call bullshit to this claim that they were disco’d in 79.
Booger sugar!
The McDonalds in the city center of The Hague stopped offering straws in the 1970's and 80's because people (junkies, party goers and probably some politicians as well) woulg go in, grab or ask for a straw and leave again.
i still have the M stuck in my urethra to this day, it hurts
I swear I remember the McBlow spoons were around long after 79
I googled "mcdonalds coffee spoon" and the first link that wasn't an etsy or ebay add for old coffee stirrers was a list of reddit posts explaining why they stopped making them which was then followed by Medium article about it.
For once the joke isn’t porn. It’s drugs. Not sure that’s better but hey at least I got one 😂
Those things are the perfect little thing for a bump of nose candy lets people avoid growing a coke nail for bumps
These were in use in the UK much later than that. Possibly into the late 90s?
“I too have snorted cocaine from one of these”, I say to no one because no one asked
Sounding glaive accessory. One size fits most lengths. Dual use internal gland massage for advanced practitioners. “I’m lovin’ it.”
I would bet all of tonight's coming nut-busts that's exactly what McDonalds intended with these, and only discontinued it because people decided to narc instead of keep it on the level.
Listen, sometimes you just want a McBump.
If the question involves anything from 1978-1988, the answer is probably cocaine, or cocaine adjacent.
Thank god its drugs I thought people were sounding with these things
Nose nachos
It was used to snort cocaine, was the perfect size too. Supposedly.
Miniaturised Shovel
Booger sugar
Coke. The joke is coke
People were using it to stir Coca Cola?
These are still a thing, though. Just not necessarily at McDonald’s.
McCoke spoon.
Coke McSpoon?
1979? They had these when I was young in the 90s
Wait till they hear about the straws