# What have you put into your mouth by accident? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 20, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-put-into-your-mouth-by-accident/835796 "2019-06-20T12:29:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-put-into-your-mouth-by-accident/835796/61 "2019-06-25T12:29:48Z")
Urine. Cigarette butt. Salted coffee. Chunks of paper and alu-foil. All kinds of chemicals one can find in a printing industry. Moldy bread. Acrylic resin. Eraser rubber. Spider, once. Swallowed. Once I shaved myself using bug spray instead of foam. Oh, and if you eat enough dog cookies on a party, your hair will be _ **shiny** _ next morning. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-put-into-your-mouth-by-accident/835796/62 "2019-06-25T12:45:51Z")
Oh, salted coffee! Long ago, when I worked at a fast food restaurant, that was a popular prank for the employees to play on each other. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-put-into-your-mouth-by-accident/835796/63 "2019-06-25T15:48:18Z")
I was on my first trip to Egypt a few months after our wedding with my wife, who is Egyptian, and we were on a Nile luncheon cruise with her extended family and friends. It was a buffet lunch, and being an open-minded eater I tried just about everything, including a cute little potato. The potato was bite-sized so I popped the whole thing in my mouth. As soon as I bit down, I got a very intense sensation of sour, bitter, and salty, so intense that if I had been anywhere else I would have immediately spit it out. But I was around all my new in-laws and friends, and did not want to make a scene, so I chewed that thing up and swallowed it. It is the worst thing I have ever eaten. A few minutes later I turned to my wife’s second cousin next to me and said, “Say, what were those little round things in the white bowl?” “Oh, it was a pickled lemon. I was surprised you ate the whole thing. Normally you just take a tiny little bit as a condiment.” I didn’t even know pickling lemons was a thing. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-put-into-your-mouth-by-accident/835796/64 "2019-06-25T15:59:15Z")
Was kinda chewing on the end of an ink pen one day and suddenly tasted something terrible, ink. Very bitter. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-put-into-your-mouth-by-accident/835796/65 "2019-06-25T16:05:10Z")
When I six I got a bb gun for Christmas, and it came with a small tube of gun oil. My gums were sore from my permanent teeth coming in, so I would chew on the tube of oil. At some point I chewed through it. It was indescribably bitter; fortunately, I was close enough to the bathroom sink where I could immediately spit it out and rinse my mouth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-have-you-put-into-your-mouth-by-accident/835796.md?page=3)