# I always thought they ate paste **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 29, 2005, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756 "2005-03-29T10:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrLoveGun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@DrLoveGun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrLoveGun)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/1 "2005-03-29T10:57:55Z")
Do you know anyone who was a paste-eater? Or do you suspect it? Just yesterday, my lovely wife informed me that the oatmeal she’d purchased for the baby tasted just like library paste. Oh that explains so much. ---
**Author:** ![leenmi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@leenmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leenmi)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/2 "2005-03-29T11:38:41Z")
I was known to sample the paste. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/3 "2005-03-29T11:42:54Z")
I was more of a glue-sniffer, myself. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/4 "2005-03-29T13:22:49Z")
I used to eat the homemade play-doh. But not the paste. ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/5 "2005-03-29T14:09:56Z")
One of my most disgusting childhood memories occurred repeatedlyin the first grade. Our desks were in pairs around the room and the other half of my pair was a girl who liked to drink Elmer’s glue straight from the bottle. The smell of glue still makes me nauseated. Urgh. Paste eating might have been a bit more surreptitious but we didn’t have any readily available. She also stole our counting pennies but even that I could handle. ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/6 "2005-03-29T14:50:55Z")
I tried the paste. Hey, it was a long time between breakfast and lunch at my school. It smelled like wintergreen berries and it was sweet. If we weren’t supposed to eat it, why did it smell and taste like food? I only remember trying it once, though. Must not have been _that_ great. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/7 "2005-03-29T15:20:47Z")
I used to be a big paste eater in grade school, I still have a taste now and then (I’m 46). Yumm. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/8 "2005-03-29T15:26:42Z")
Hi…my name is Kizarvexius, and I’m a recovering paste eater. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/9 "2005-03-29T19:50:47Z")
The only kid I ever remember eating paste was the kid who pooped in the corner of the classroom. My tastes were far more refined. I ate Crisco. Hey! Stop retching! Look upon it as sugar-free cake frosting. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/10 "2005-03-30T01:33:38Z")
I ate the homemade play doh. And slices of butter, right off the stick – but I don’t think paste ever came into it. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/11 "2005-03-30T01:39:13Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > Hi…my name is Kizarvexius, and I’m a recovering paste eater. HI Kizarvexius. Aren’t we all? ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/12 "2005-03-30T01:45:50Z")
Don’t judge me! Everyone was trying it! ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/13 "2005-03-30T01:49:16Z")
I’d get really bored in class. So I’d make puddles of it inside my desk. Let dry. Nibble. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/14 "2005-03-30T01:53:29Z")
the girl next to me ate her entire paste jar in the first 5 minutes of first grade. i’m figuring she thought the red spreader thing in the cap was a spoon or something. i’m fairly sure she was eyeing my paste jar as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kiminy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Kiminy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiminy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/15 "2005-03-30T02:19:39Z")
Once I learned what the phrase “non-toxic” meant, I pretty much tasted anything that was labelled that way. Paste, commercial Play-Do, Elmer’s Glue, etc. I generally just took tastes, rather than truly eating it, and I still remember what most of them taste like. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/16 "2005-03-30T02:54:35Z")
I feel like I missed out on a rite of passage because I never ate paste or glue or play dough, home-made or otherwise. ☹ I have, however, tried hay, milkbones and other assorted animal feeds. ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/17 "2005-03-30T02:57:54Z")
> [@Red Stilettos](#): > > I feel like I missed out on a rite of passage because I never ate paste or glue or play dough, home-made or otherwise. ☹ It’s never too late to try! ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/18 "2005-03-30T03:02:34Z")
> [@melondeca](#): > > … was a girl who liked to drink Elmer’s glue straight from the bottle… Didn’t she get constipated? Oh you wouldn’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/19 "2005-03-31T05:58:29Z")
I think I was in first or second grade. A kid in my class named James took a whole jar of paste, spread it on foolscap paper, folded it in half and ate it like a sandwich. Guk. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/20 "2005-03-31T13:58:39Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > My tastes were far more refined. I ate Crisco. I, too, ate Crisco. Praise the lard. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756.md?page=2)