Was eating a reheated piece of pizza just now when my molars crunched down on something very hard. Ugh. My first thought went to my front tooth, which has a chip that I’ve had bonded several times because the bonding only seems to last 2-3 years before it breaks off. So I’ve been obsessively checking my front tooth with my tongue for the past 10 minutes, trying to find the slightest chip that fell out, but my tooth seems intact as far as I can tell. No idea what it was. It was small enough that I swallowed it before I could recover it and try to figure that out.
Heard a customer at a restaurant complain about finding bones in a piece of salmon. The waiter, with a straight face, told the guy that there is a ban on catching boneless salmon due to over fishing. So all they can get now is salmon with bones and that customer should expect to find a few in his piece of fish. The guy looked a bit embarrassed as his wife was trying to hold back her laughter.
A local pizza place has great pizza but one time they loaded up their Greek pizza with kalamata olive pits. I assumed they prepped it digging into a nearly empty jar of olives and came up with a handful of pits amongst the olives. So lucky I didn’t break a tooth or choke. Called to inform but it was a busy weekend night and the phone just rang and rang.
Once years ago I was watching a movie and eating popcorn on a Saturday afternoon, and I bit down on an unpopped kernel with a molar that had a deep filling, so was not too structurally sound. And it exploded into many pieces. Had to make an emergency dental visit to get a temporary molar replacement.
I estimate that in a glass of cherries, there’s averagely one cherry with a pit. So there’s always one person who gets a piece of pie with that cherry, and it’s mostly me. Haven’t ruined a tooth this way though, but that’s pure luck.
I was eating a sandwich I had made using Bar S lunch meat. There was a piece of bone about the size of a dime in one of the slices. It hurt when my teeth clamped down on it.
Is a glass of cherries a standard measurement unit of cherries in your world? Not being snarky, truly curious. My unit is usually a fistful, a sandwich bag full, or an old sippy cup full.
Once I popped a sugarless lemon Riccola candy into my mouth. Suddenly I experienced a terrible taste/smell/sensation that was simultaneously like burning tires and a bee sting (kind of how I imagine what a taste of drain cleaner would be like). I spit out the candy immediately but the sensation lingered for the next half hour or so. It was so intense and foul that I worried I’d somehow ingested one of those poisons that only take a drop to kill you.
That was about 15 years ago and I’m still here, so whatever it was didn’t kill me. But I’m still curious. I’d love to know exactly what that was, and how it ended up in/on my Riccola.
Sorry for the confusion, this seems to be a German regionalism. Out of season you buy cherries in a glass here, like this. It’s what’s predominantly used for making cherry pies and cakes.
I hit something crunchy in some quinoa and brown rice I had just cooked this week.Fortunately, it didn’t destroy any teeth. Probably just an unhulled grain.
