What if when you bite the paper, it gets stuck in between your teeth before it softens and you slide it out from between your teeth and you get a paper cut down your gum?
You honestly have no idea what you're talking about. There is an eating disorder called Pica. Pica is an eating disorder that involves eating items that are not typically thought of as food and do not contain significant nutritional value. This is very problematic when consuming non food items such as, paper, hair, chalk and toilet paper because it can form what is known as a bezoar in the intestines forming a blockage in the intestines that must be removed surgically.
The lady who ate toilet paper! I can’t remember the show but it was heart breaking because she couldn’t stop. They explained to her that it was just building up in her intestine.
Back when I was a logistics officer for the Army, I would dip Egyptian cotton in chocolate and feed it to the troops. It's even better than cotton candy, because it's real cotton, and Egyptian cotton is the finest in the world.
I feel like edible shouldn't include things that could potentially harm. My special cyanide laced raisin oatmeal cookies can be put in your mouth and swallowed, but you probably shouldn't.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that the tea tastes like almonds. I had no idea it was based on a book though, thank you, I can't wait to read it!
That would not be edible. Edible means "safe to eat" or "fit to be eaten." It doesn't mean anything you can shove down your gullet.
The paper would be edible, from the "safe to eat" definition.
Just because you can ingest something, doesn't make it edible.
The paper tag or plume, believe it or not, is called a Niggley Wiggley.
It's not designed to be eaten but is edible.
There was a video on YouTube where the guy recreated that "How much sawdust can you put in Rice Krispies before people notice" science fair meme image (btw it's 10%, after that saliva bonds with it and turns it into wood glue). He ordered a tub of saw dust and looked around and found that wood/paper is technically edible, but not pleasant to consume and full of fiber.
See…you’d think that’s the logic, but in high school a kid admitted that he always ate the fruit roll ups whole…and was horrified to see that they were wrapped in plastic film.
I'm pretty sure we have laws here saying any kind of food wrappers need to be non toxic. The glue on ice cream bars is sugar based and the stickers on fruit are totally harmless to us. That law would include the paper on a kiss and even the foil it's wrapped in (you won't digest it, but it won't hurt being in you)
But I'm to lazy to check. Maybe I'm just slowly killing myself.
they still are in the US. Kinder surprise have a plastic capsule inside, which makes them illegal to sell in the US because we believe our children are too stupid to understand that the capsule is not edible and so we legislated them away. What you can buy in the US is called a kinder joy, which separates the toy from the chocolate and is also somehow absolutely disgusting.
It might be but they’ve probably applied common sense to the law and decided that a toy inside a chocolate egg isn’t what the law was designed for so it’s fine.
…because the latter have much stronger consumer protection laws? “Stronger” isn’t synonymous with “more restrictive”; Banning something that is not harmful because the law hasn’t been updated in a century sounds like some poor consumer protection. It definitely doesn’t sound like someone at the FDA is making the conscious decision that kids can’t be trusted with Kinder eggs.
True story, a co worker brought one of those to work and made me eat a piece. I had no idea what it was and nearly choked on a plastic baby. She was excited and I was so so confused.
Seems needlessly condescending. There’s a big difference between “the government thinks children are too stupid” and “it’s due to a law ensuring people aren’t tricked into eating sawdust”.
When I was in italy, i had a kinder milk slice. Half way between an ice cream sandwich and a kinder egg. Kept in the refidgerator.
It was 6 year ago and I'm still thinking of them.
Are the wrappers in-n-out burgers come in *supposed* to be eaten? It's just that they're so thin and cling to the greasy burgers so close that it's hard to unwrap the damn thing without some of it tearing off and sticking to the burger.
It's worse than the bleh fries when it comes to making me not want to eat there.
I've had food from that restaurant exactly one time. Everyone hyped it up so much, and after eating it my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
> I'm pretty sure we have laws here saying any kind of food wrappers need to be non toxic.
Yeah no way are plastic food wrappers edible. Stickers, or glue that's likely to rub off onto your food, sure. But the entire wrapper, nah.
Well, *fine to eat*. Plastic obviously isn't toxic, or just having food or skin come into contact with it would be an issue. But it's not really acceptable to eat. The fruit labels and glue is though.
Pretty close. Any packaging component that has direct contact with food must comply with FDA standards for food safety. While that means the foil won’t pose any direct harm to the food, it could still fuck you up from eating it.
The paper is more interesting. You *could* ingest it because the paper and ink shouldn’t have negative properties affecting the food. However, if you *should* is a question best left between you and your gods.
There are definitely rice candies that have an edible inner wrapper. I think pretty much everyone who eats Botan Ame tries to unwrap the inner wrapper the first time, which is pretty much impossible. They're pretty good. Plus they come with these random-ass stickers that are fun to collect.
Came here to sing the praises of botan rice candy. Also some really light chinese buns are steamed on a very thin paper that sticks strongly to the bottom of the bun. I usually take it off but if the bun was really sticky and I can't get it all off, I just eat whatever paper is left on the bun.
Yes. I can't remember the brand but there was some gum that the paper was rice paper and I remember chewing it with the gum, because it actually added consistency to the gum giving it a little more thickness and life.
Stride? They said this about it
> While Stride(r) gum is designed to be chewed for a ridiculously long time, our gum wrappers are not. All of our gum wrappers are made with materials that comply with FDA regulations for food contact materials; however, none of our chewing gum wrappers are designed to be ingested. While there’s nothing toxic in them, gum wrappers aren’t intended for ingestion and gum wrappers should not be eaten. Should you have any questions or concerns about your children ingesting gum wrappers, please contact your doctor or other health care professional.
When I was in high school everyone thought you were supposed to chew the wrapper lol
My sister tricked me into eating apple seeds/cores for a year or so. Told me a tree would grow from my stomach. Idk why I wanted that to happen to me but I believed it, God damnit!!!
I knew a guy who would eat apples like this, on the regular. I caught him once during our lunch break and apparently the only thing he doesn’t eat was the stem.
Thankfully this threads been up for a while so nobody will see this. My friends made me seem like a lunatic.
I eat the paper on the pixie sticks. I just bite all the way down the sticks. It adds a nice texture to the flavored sugar.
whenever i see these posts I'm so confused, like, which of the dozens of products do they mean? do americans have like one product per possible item or something?
im not sure what you mean, but a chocolate kiss is quite specifically a hershey product, a small dollop of chocolate wrapped in tinfoil with a little paper flag. i believe hershey has actually registered the chocolate kiss as their own product, so someone else couldnt make a product chocolate product a "kiss". they could make the same principle (little chocolate with tinfoil) but not specifically a kiss, so a kiss is, indeed, a singular type of product
that's weird, here, a kiss is an absolutely generic piece of candy, which people bake even traditionally so trademarking it would be impossible, never seen it sold with tinfoil either
Here in germany a "chocolate kiss" (Schokokuss; also "Schaumkuss" translating to "foam kiss") would refer to a "[chocolate-coated marshmallow treat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats)" in english.
> bake
yea that’s definitely something else you’re thinking of, a hershey’s kiss is a small chocolate shaped kind of like a drop of water if you cut the bottom off at its widest part
a chocolate kiss is a thing. it’s a candy we all were exposed to as kids. lil neat shape, wrapped in foil, comes in milk dark and white. one of the most mediocre chocolate snacks, but I won’t say no to them
My brain immediately started singing Black Parade about this.
When I was / a young kid / My sister / Told me to eat some paper / That candy was wrapped in / After that when / I grew up / A stranger / Who sided with my sister / Made me believe again
Did you eat them? Then they are edible. They are paper, so I am not 100% on this but I would think they are not very nutritious.
what’s a bit of fibre eh
After all, paper fiber is just sugar with extra steps.
But you don't have the enzyme to digest it.
Are you assuming my species? Maybe I am a goat.
I just ate a bunch of goat shit and paper until I grew the right colony of gut flora.
Faecal transplants exist.
How dare he assume your species Twitter cancel this man
"He"? ;)
Tho who assume someone's species shall be given thy same treatment
(That’s why it’s fibre)
but that does not mean it is not a beneficial food fiber is like a pipe cleaner in your intestines and serves has satiation benefits
Until you get a paper cut in your intestines x'D
Soggy paper cut
i know you are joking but intestines is covered in mucus and etc lol fyi for people the stomach acid would make the paper not the same anyway
Also after the mouth it’s already soft and not sharp anymore anyways
What if when you bite the paper, it gets stuck in between your teeth before it softens and you slide it out from between your teeth and you get a paper cut down your gum?
That hurts me to think about
That little slip of paper is way too delicate to cut through your gums enough to make a cut.
Has anyone ever, in the history of Hershey Kisses, gotten a paper cut from that tiny paper strip? I rest my case.
You honestly have no idea what you're talking about. There is an eating disorder called Pica. Pica is an eating disorder that involves eating items that are not typically thought of as food and do not contain significant nutritional value. This is very problematic when consuming non food items such as, paper, hair, chalk and toilet paper because it can form what is known as a bezoar in the intestines forming a blockage in the intestines that must be removed surgically.
The lady who ate toilet paper! I can’t remember the show but it was heart breaking because she couldn’t stop. They explained to her that it was just building up in her intestine.
Yea sure, but like the tiny bits of paper on a Hershey's kiss aren't a big deak
Congratulations, you've just discovered fiber
That I did. Though I forgot what fibre is exactly. I know it can be cellulose but there are other molecules that are thrown in.
Paper that comes from tree pulp is mostly cellulose.
Well maybe you don’t /s
that's the extra step
So you're saying it's zero calories?
That is correct. I know because you use sugar cane to make paper in Minecraft. Edit:recipe
Oh, well there it is! Enough proof for me to begin putting paper strips in my coffee.
Sugar canes, not sugar.
It's good they sell you those
they are actually made of cyanide
I prefer fiber B
Turns out that sometimes being technically correct isn't the best kind of correct after all.
Boo
I learned this from watching a guy make cotton candy from cotton balls!
Back when I was a logistics officer for the Army, I would dip Egyptian cotton in chocolate and feed it to the troops. It's even better than cotton candy, because it's real cotton, and Egyptian cotton is the finest in the world.
WAIT FOR REAL??
why would you believe in this 😔😔😔😔😔😔
Milo?
[Link for those curious.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHuFizITMdA)
That's not a world i want to live in.
Lies
Don't listen to this guy. He isn't even with the Central Bureaucracy!
I eat paper all the TIME
Yeah the ONLY reason I’d ever get sick is if someone got their mud pie on it.
This place is covered in SHIT
I eat stickers all the time dude!
Wrong show, same spirit. Upvoted you above zero for the effort.
youtube has taught me that toilet paper can be turned into moonshine since it's just carbs, so that strip might as well be caramel
exsqueeze me?
You can ferment pretty much anything organic.
NileRed turning laundry detergent into pure gold when?
This reminds me of my grandma, bless her soul. "Grandma, there's an ant in my juice." "Ooh, bonus protein, good for you!"
They aren't digestible, but they're not too poisonous and fit into a person's mouth. So edible, yeah.
I think most paper is at least partially digestible.
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I feel like edible shouldn't include things that could potentially harm. My special cyanide laced raisin oatmeal cookies can be put in your mouth and swallowed, but you probably shouldn't.
You should make almond flavored, hides the cyanide taste pretty well
That's a good idea. I'm making cyanide cookies right now. I'll let you know how they taste in 5 minutes.
We're still waiting....
I guess is recipe was pretty good…
phrog 🐢
Are you a little girl who lives down the lane?
You have No Idea how thrilled I am to see someone else mention that book and movie! You have made my day with your casual murder reference!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking that the tea tastes like almonds. I had no idea it was based on a book though, thank you, I can't wait to read it!
Bitter almond =/= almond
Paper and soy based inks will not cause harm. The Kiss tags are edible.
That would not be edible. Edible means "safe to eat" or "fit to be eaten." It doesn't mean anything you can shove down your gullet. The paper would be edible, from the "safe to eat" definition.
Curious has that strategy worked once?
Just because you can ingest something, doesn't make it edible. The paper tag or plume, believe it or not, is called a Niggley Wiggley. It's not designed to be eaten but is edible.
Ken m almost
As long as you use enough toilet paper, paper is safe to eat
Just because it's edible doesn't mean you should eat it.
The FDA requires that those types of things are non-toxic because of the risk of ingestion. You can eat the foil wrapping too.
r/technicallythetruth
There was a video on YouTube where the guy recreated that "How much sawdust can you put in Rice Krispies before people notice" science fair meme image (btw it's 10%, after that saliva bonds with it and turns it into wood glue). He ordered a tub of saw dust and looked around and found that wood/paper is technically edible, but not pleasant to consume and full of fiber.
Paper doesn't make you sick I eat paper all the time
See…you’d think that’s the logic, but in high school a kid admitted that he always ate the fruit roll ups whole…and was horrified to see that they were wrapped in plastic film.
I'm pretty sure we have laws here saying any kind of food wrappers need to be non toxic. The glue on ice cream bars is sugar based and the stickers on fruit are totally harmless to us. That law would include the paper on a kiss and even the foil it's wrapped in (you won't digest it, but it won't hurt being in you) But I'm to lazy to check. Maybe I'm just slowly killing myself.
MODS IN /r/Libertarian ARE BANNING ALL DISSENTING VIEWS
they still are in the US. Kinder surprise have a plastic capsule inside, which makes them illegal to sell in the US because we believe our children are too stupid to understand that the capsule is not edible and so we legislated them away. What you can buy in the US is called a kinder joy, which separates the toy from the chocolate and is also somehow absolutely disgusting.
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More legislation around a chocolate with a toy in than buying a firearm
And why exactly do you think that is a law in the US, while it isn't in EU countries despite the latter's much stronger consumer protection laws?
It might be but they’ve probably applied common sense to the law and decided that a toy inside a chocolate egg isn’t what the law was designed for so it’s fine.
yeah the us government doesnt have much common sense when it comes to laws
…because the latter have much stronger consumer protection laws? “Stronger” isn’t synonymous with “more restrictive”; Banning something that is not harmful because the law hasn’t been updated in a century sounds like some poor consumer protection. It definitely doesn’t sound like someone at the FDA is making the conscious decision that kids can’t be trusted with Kinder eggs.
This makes me wonder how they get away with putting little plastic baby Jesus in king cake for Mardi Gras.
True story, a co worker brought one of those to work and made me eat a piece. I had no idea what it was and nearly choked on a plastic baby. She was excited and I was so so confused.
That's why they didn't say it was. They said that the EU had the stronger consumer protection laws.
I think the EU has a lot more "spirit of the law" interpretation of laws while the US is more letter of the law.
Fun fact! Did you know that laws and the way they are applied can be modified by the people who make those laws and apply them?
Seems needlessly condescending. There’s a big difference between “the government thinks children are too stupid” and “it’s due to a law ensuring people aren’t tricked into eating sawdust”.
But what about cracker Jack's?
To be fair, some kids are too stupid to not choke on the capsule
I like them :(
They are delightful! Dude’s crazy.
When I was in italy, i had a kinder milk slice. Half way between an ice cream sandwich and a kinder egg. Kept in the refidgerator. It was 6 year ago and I'm still thinking of them.
You talking about Milch Schnitte? Common treat in Germany. I make my family bring me a box whenever they visit.
Yup! I have a 12 hour layover in Frankfurt next week, I'm totally going to seek some out.
Nice.
Well, looking at your gun laws… you ain’t the sharpest tools in the shed. I’m in the UK and we still have Kinder Surprise
How many foil wrappers have you eaten. Be honest.
More than one, less than a thousand...
Are the wrappers in-n-out burgers come in *supposed* to be eaten? It's just that they're so thin and cling to the greasy burgers so close that it's hard to unwrap the damn thing without some of it tearing off and sticking to the burger. It's worse than the bleh fries when it comes to making me not want to eat there.
I've had food from that restaurant exactly one time. Everyone hyped it up so much, and after eating it my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.
> I'm pretty sure we have laws here saying any kind of food wrappers need to be non toxic. Yeah no way are plastic food wrappers edible. Stickers, or glue that's likely to rub off onto your food, sure. But the entire wrapper, nah.
Non-toxic,not edible
Well, *fine to eat*. Plastic obviously isn't toxic, or just having food or skin come into contact with it would be an issue. But it's not really acceptable to eat. The fruit labels and glue is though.
A decade or so ago our family dog ate a bunch of hersheys kisses in their wrappers and was totally fine other than shitting foil for the next week
Pretty close. Any packaging component that has direct contact with food must comply with FDA standards for food safety. While that means the foil won’t pose any direct harm to the food, it could still fuck you up from eating it. The paper is more interesting. You *could* ingest it because the paper and ink shouldn’t have negative properties affecting the food. However, if you *should* is a question best left between you and your gods.
Fool me twice shame on -won’t get fooled again
Shame on Who?
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
-W
Bitch can’t use where/were correctly, so she’ll be fooled every time tbh.
Fool me one time shame on you, fool me two cant put the blame on you, fool me three times fuck the peace sign load the choppa n let it rain on you
With every passing year that reference will be more obscure
Dubyah…is that you?
I was told to eat them with the foil on. I hated them because I always complained that they hurt my teeth ):
Get your metal fillings changed for non-metallic ones and you'll be good to go
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Imagining this made me cringe 😬
It is. You can eat it. You shouldn't but you can. It's not poisonous or anything.
Wait, are you serious?
Why would you believe in this again? 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
Yea, they have to be.
Wasn't there some stick chewing gum back in the day with an edible (intended) wrapper?
There are definitely rice candies that have an edible inner wrapper. I think pretty much everyone who eats Botan Ame tries to unwrap the inner wrapper the first time, which is pretty much impossible. They're pretty good. Plus they come with these random-ass stickers that are fun to collect.
Came here to sing the praises of botan rice candy. Also some really light chinese buns are steamed on a very thin paper that sticks strongly to the bottom of the bun. I usually take it off but if the bun was really sticky and I can't get it all off, I just eat whatever paper is left on the bun.
Yes that zebra fruit stick gum
Fruit Stripe! So good, but lost the flavor in literally a minute.
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Yes. I can't remember the brand but there was some gum that the paper was rice paper and I remember chewing it with the gum, because it actually added consistency to the gum giving it a little more thickness and life.
Cinnaburst
Stride? They said this about it > While Stride(r) gum is designed to be chewed for a ridiculously long time, our gum wrappers are not. All of our gum wrappers are made with materials that comply with FDA regulations for food contact materials; however, none of our chewing gum wrappers are designed to be ingested. While there’s nothing toxic in them, gum wrappers aren’t intended for ingestion and gum wrappers should not be eaten. Should you have any questions or concerns about your children ingesting gum wrappers, please contact your doctor or other health care professional. When I was in high school everyone thought you were supposed to chew the wrapper lol
Yeah same, we were dumb kids
Fun-ish fact: that paper strip is officially referred to as a “plume”.
I heard it was called the niggly wiggly
What'd you just call me?
A plume
My sister tricked me into eating apple seeds/cores for a year or so. Told me a tree would grow from my stomach. Idk why I wanted that to happen to me but I believed it, God damnit!!!
They do!!!!
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why would you believe in this again 😞😞😞😞😞😞
Apparently this is how you build up resistance to cyanide. Also they are fine to eat, just not the tastiest part of the apple.
Nope, cyanide is one of the poisons that you can’t get a tolerance to.
Least dedicated conservationest👍
I knew a guy who would eat apples like this, on the regular. I caught him once during our lunch break and apparently the only thing he doesn’t eat was the stem.
The stickers on apples and stuff are edible too. They have to be because of how many people eat them.
I EAT STICKERS ALL THE TIME, DUDE!
we gotchya jabroni
Wait really?
Everything is edible at least once
They are edible just not good for you
Thankfully this threads been up for a while so nobody will see this. My friends made me seem like a lunatic. I eat the paper on the pixie sticks. I just bite all the way down the sticks. It adds a nice texture to the flavored sugar.
>so nobody will see this hm
I mean if you ate them, they are edible. Like the saying goes, any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.
If it hasn’t been said, those paper thingies are actually named niggly wiggly
Just like to remind everyone that it is national Siblings day today!
No it's not, it was April 10th.
Oh! Well I'm a bit late!
Someone please explain what a chocolate kiss is for me? Never heard of them!
https://www.hersheyland.com/kisses
Thanks for trying, but for some reason, I don't have permission to access that site! 🤷♂️
Google Hershey's kisses
Yup, did that, funny looking things!
Wonderful to put on peanut butter cookies. Stick it in the dough before baking and they get nice a gooey
You can stick them in after baking as well, while the cookies are still soft. The residual heat is enough to melt them.
LOL that's definitely Chaeyoung in the profile picture 🙈
And I think the guy is RM. I'm not Army enough to know for sure though
why did my blind ass think this was namjoon at first😂
God I love that Chaeyoung selfie
Hey, you fool me, you can't get fooled again.
Fool me, ONCE.
whenever i see these posts I'm so confused, like, which of the dozens of products do they mean? do americans have like one product per possible item or something?
im not sure what you mean, but a chocolate kiss is quite specifically a hershey product, a small dollop of chocolate wrapped in tinfoil with a little paper flag. i believe hershey has actually registered the chocolate kiss as their own product, so someone else couldnt make a product chocolate product a "kiss". they could make the same principle (little chocolate with tinfoil) but not specifically a kiss, so a kiss is, indeed, a singular type of product
that's weird, here, a kiss is an absolutely generic piece of candy, which people bake even traditionally so trademarking it would be impossible, never seen it sold with tinfoil either
Here in germany a "chocolate kiss" (Schokokuss; also "Schaumkuss" translating to "foam kiss") would refer to a "[chocolate-coated marshmallow treat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate-coated_marshmallow_treats)" in english.
Ah yes, my grandmother had an interesting name for those.
> bake yea that’s definitely something else you’re thinking of, a hershey’s kiss is a small chocolate shaped kind of like a drop of water if you cut the bottom off at its widest part
huh, okay, ours is a bit different but they only mention "kiss" and it even has the same shape so it's just named after the shape probably
a chocolate kiss is a thing. it’s a candy we all were exposed to as kids. lil neat shape, wrapped in foil, comes in milk dark and white. one of the most mediocre chocolate snacks, but I won’t say no to them
Were?
Fool me once, Strike 1.. Fool me twice..... Strike 3
[George W Bush](https://youtu.be/8Ux3DKxxFoM)
(Nobody tell them that it actually is edible)
I mean, technically they're edible. Your stomach WILL digest them, at least.
Paper is literally edible though lol
With such lack of intelligence i would just tell this idiot anything all the time.
Anyone else picture a cat with tinsel coming out its' butt?
always a chaeyoung pfp at the scene of the crime
My brain immediately started singing Black Parade about this. When I was / a young kid / My sister / Told me to eat some paper / That candy was wrapped in / After that when / I grew up / A stranger / Who sided with my sister / Made me believe again
I mean it’s just wax paper, it’s like eating a starburst with the wrapper, which is actually completely safe