# Chewing something that’s not supposed to be crunchy when…CRUNCH 😬 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965 "2022-02-05T16:15:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/1 "2022-02-05T16:15:48Z")
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. Top that for mundane and pointless! 😜 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/2 "2022-02-05T16:22:18Z")
Probably just a piece of whatever animal the pepperoni/sausage was made from. Or that fell in the grinder. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/3 "2022-02-05T16:22:50Z")
Maybe a bone chip in the meat topping? ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/4 "2022-02-05T16:31:25Z")
It did have Italian sausage on it, so a random bone fragment coulda been the culprit. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/5 "2022-02-05T16:49:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/6 "2022-02-05T16:56:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/7 "2022-02-05T16:57:31Z")
Yeah, I hate that sensation of shearing off a cusp of one my teeth. Oh boy, more dental work. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/8 "2022-02-05T17:11:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/9 "2022-02-05T21:09:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/10 "2022-02-05T21:18:20Z")
I’d have probably tipped the waiter extra for the entertainment if I’d had the pleasure of hearing that exchange, even from another table. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/11 "2022-02-05T21:34:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Didi44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@Didi44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Didi44)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/12 "2022-02-05T21:47:13Z")
The worst is when you suddenly get a bitter taste in your mouth or feel tiny legs with your tongue. YOW! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/13 "2022-02-05T21:50:43Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > I’d have probably tipped the waiter extra for the entertainment if I’d had the pleasure of hearing that exchange, even from another table. - No probably about it. I would have emptied my wallet for that gem. > [@Didi44](#): > > The worst is when you suddenly get a bitter taste in your mouth or feel tiny legs with your tongue. YOW! - Even worse if they’re still moving. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/14 "2022-02-05T21:54:10Z")
I once bit into a small pebble that was mixed into my saffron rice. I was very lucky I didn’t break a tooth. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/15 "2022-02-05T22:28:22Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I estimate that in a glass of cherries 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. And I agree with the rest of your post. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/16 "2022-02-05T22:39:13Z")
> [@Didi44](#): > > you suddenly get a bitter taste in your mouth 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. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/17 "2022-02-05T22:54:35Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > 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. > > And I agree with the rest of your post. 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. > **[Ossikiste.de | Hainich Schattenmorellen entsteint 720ml-Glas | online kaufen](https://www.ossikiste.de/Konserven/Obstkonserven/Hainich-Schattenmorellen-entsteint-720ml-Glas.html)** > > Hainich Schattenmorellen entsteint 720ml-Glas - Hainich Schattenmorellen 720 ml - entsteint Hergestellt werden Hainich Produkte nach überlieferten Hausrezepten, die Verarbeitung direkt nach der Ernte ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/18 "2022-02-06T00:01:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/19 "2022-02-06T00:07:03Z")
One must select one’s food sources with great care in order to prevent unexpected dental adventures. [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-41EafSG5pa8/UEA3_J-0yGI/AAAAAAAAIj8/G6zU4f0N15g/s1600/Boneless_Chicken_Ranch_Far_Side.jpg) ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-41EafSG5pa8/UEA3_J-0yGI/AAAAAAAAIj8/G6zU4f0N15g/s1600/Boneless_Chicken_Ranch_Far_Side.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965/20 "2022-02-06T01:10:06Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > 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’d call a glass container with a screw-on lid a “jar”, myself. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chewing-something-that-s-not-supposed-to-be-crunchy-when-crunch/958965.md?page=2)