# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brownie55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f14d63/32.png) [@brownie55](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brownie55)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/21 "2005-03-31T14:31:26Z")
I tasted, but never swallowed ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/22 "2005-03-31T20:41:49Z")
Paste-eater, checking in. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/23 "2005-03-31T20:47:39Z")
I eschewed paste, markers and other intoxicants of the day in school, believe it or not. I have, however, met (online) someone who puts nail polish remover in pill capsules and swallows it. Apparently, it contains an analogue of GHB and gets you really high. No thanks, amigo. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/24 "2005-03-31T20:57:59Z")
I went straight for oven cleaner as a kid. I’m glad Mum saw me sampling it 😃 Our pet used to eat paste, but then he was a putty-cat 😃 ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/25 "2005-03-31T22:10:38Z")
> [@monica](#): > > I’d get really bored in class. So I’d make puddles of it inside my desk. Let dry. Nibble. That’s too hilarious. I used to sneak bread or rolls out of the cafeteria during lunch and keep them in my desk so I could eat them later. I remember eating paste, too. We rarely had the paste in a jar though, and that was the good stuff. Mostly we just used glue sticks which weren’t nearly as tasty. I also liked to eat the dry macaroni that we used for projects. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/26 "2005-03-31T22:16:24Z")
If kids weren’t meant to eat paste, it wouldn’t smell so yummy. That’s my philosophy. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/27 "2005-03-31T22:30:55Z")
I’ve been trying to figure out what in the world are all of you talking about. What the heck is paste? I thought “paste” is an adjective like “a pasty substance” or “this goo is a paste.” I asked my wife about it, she said it was something old people used in school to glue paper together. We just used Elmer’s. No, I didn’t eat that either. ---
**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 31, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756/28 "2005-03-31T23:11:49Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I have, however, met (online) someone who puts nail polish remover in pill capsules and swallows it. Apparently, it contains an analogue of GHB and gets you really high. No thanks, amigo. :eek: That is very dangerous. I had a friend in highschool who drank a bottle of the (non-Acetone) kind because it said “alcohol” on the bottle and she just assumed it was the same as grain alcohol. She spent a good few days in the hospital after getting her stomach pumped and lined with charcoal. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-always-thought-they-ate-paste/296756.md?page=1)