# What Happens if You Eat Plastic?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-eat-plastic/6802>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 2, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-eat-plastic/6802 "2000-02-02T19:33:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-eat-plastic/6802/21 "2000-02-04T00:35:00Z")

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Legos? You amateur! I ate a whole family of the Fisher-Price people when I was a tot. My sister, standing next to me in the bathroom yelling “hey, there’s the dad! and the baby!”

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I’m not a fallen angel, I’m a risen demon.

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**Author:** ![Bucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Bucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bucky)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-eat-plastic/6802/22 "2000-02-04T13:51:00Z")

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PatronAnejo, sorry, can’t do it. The speech was given by a student of mine in 91. I am not really sure that I could track him down (not completely sure I would want to, either). He was a research monkey and I only let people use medical sources for medical topics.

On the other hand, there are plastic wrappings on sausages…

Okay, don’t heat stuff in plastic wraps/bags and such, but eat the sausages. MMM, sausages.

Bucky

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Oh, well. We can always make more killbots.

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**Author:** ![labradorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@labradorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/labradorian)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-eat-plastic/6802/23 "2000-02-04T14:34:00Z")

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Fisher-Price people are round.

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**Dee da dee da dee dee do do / Dee ba ditty doh / Deedle dooby doo ba dee um bee ooby / Be doodle oodle doodle dee doh** [http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/](http://members.xoom.com/labradorian/)

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**Author:** ![SINsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SINsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SINsApple)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-eat-plastic/6802/24 "2000-02-04T19:12:00Z")

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As a child, I occasionally ate small bits of plastic. Don’t ask me why. But they never seemed to harm me, and I always assumed they passed right thru anyhow. I also use to chew the wax coating off the sides of McDonald’s cups.

And before you ask: Yes, I have an oral fixation. I am also a fingernail biting fiend. Man, I never realized how wierd I am. . .

Did anyone else ever taste crayons and play-doh?

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“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” --Whitman

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**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2000, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happens-if-you-eat-plastic/6802/25 "2000-02-04T20:51:00Z")

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What happens to those guys who eat glass? I’ve seen some really weird acts on TV-they had an Indian guy who munches broken fluorescent tubes (ugh!). Remember the frenchman (Mssr. Mangetout) who ate a bicycle-must really wreck your stomach!

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