Opening a beer bottle when no bottle opener was around. After that, I learned the lighter trick.
Pizza.
I also broke a molar in half eating pizza. The front half of the tooth got stuck in the pizza, the back half fell out the next day.
Regina
You’ve described my popcorn event.
And just this week we ate at a little meat and three place and I was about to get into a nice big pork chop when I had that crunch thing that’s gotten familiar by now. Fortunately it wasn’t a chipped tooth this time, just felt like it.
To add to the drama I had just gotten my replacement crown for the popcorn tooth a few days before!
I pulled out a filling once eating a Sugar Daddy. That’s a real thrill to bite down on a filling.
And you know those little candy hearts you get at Valentine’s? Had a mouthful, chomping away and CRACK! Years ago now.
My mouth’s only got a few of the original starters, but at least there’s something in every slot. Even wisdoms which have yet to give me any trouble – until I post this…
Chipped tooth? A Burger King Whopper.
I lost a tooth, however, while chewing on a flip-flop when I was a wee lad.
Those were the days.
I chipped my front tooth on a supermarket freezer, after fainting (and falling) while shopping on a very hot Christmas Eve.
The manager was sure I had slipped on something, and was mortified I was going to sue him. 
The worst thing though was trying to find a dentist still open.
I haven’t chipped a tooth but, as a kid, I had a habit of crunching grains of sand with my front teeth. As a result the edges of my teeth got fragile, and one day a tiny portion of one just fell off.
I cracked a tooth on an olive pit while at lunch during a job interview. I was in agony the rest of the interview. To add insult to injury, I didn’t get the job.
I was also involved in a kissing accident, but the person who wound up with a chipped tooth wasn’t me.
Pepperoni Pizza…and nope, there was nothing in it, and nope it wasn’t burnt or anything…
Charms blow-pop.
Three times.
Same tooth.
No more blow pops for me.
Me too. Well, not a supermarket one, but a big, puffy Noah’s bagel. I bit down on something hard and went “Damn! Feels like that was a pebble! I could have broken a tooth!” So I fished it out of my mouth and…“Oh Christ–it is a tooth!!! That’s disgusting, how the hell did somebody’s tooth get in…hey, wait a minute…I didn’t used to be missing half a molar…”
I also had the same thing happen while eating a slice of cheese pizza, but that time I could tell it was my own tooth breaking. In both cases they were teeth with old fillings that had gone rotten underneath.
A clown.
The handlebars of my bike… not so silly.
While jumping over other kids on our bikes (pretending we were Evel Kneivel)… very silly.
I did EXACTLY the same thing. Eating some mashed potatoes, the tooth was fine before I started eating them, didn’t even know it happend, but afterwords, I had a molar that was as sharp as a knife. I’m really surprised I didn’t cut my tongue on it before I made it to the dentist. Now I have a tooth with a GIANT silver filling in it (covers the whole top of what’s left of the tooth) and I even had to have her file it down a couple of times to round off the edge.
Another tooth
The first broken tooth was from a Runt, which is not really silly considering how damn hard those things are (but so good!). The second one was a flabbergaster since it was on a McDonald’s hash brown.
I really don’t eat as much junk food as it would seem from this post.
I always fear I’ll break one on a carrot since I like them raw but so far I’ve been lucky.
I’m not sure how old I was–old enough to have permanent teeth but young enough to still play tag-type games. I crashed into the side of the toilet bowl while chasing my brother. Chipped one of my “two front teeth.” It’s still chipped. I’m told that it’s kinda cute. I have my doubts. But it doesn’t hurt, so I’ve never capped it.
My violin case + lollipop = chipped front tooth. Poor thing didn’t stand a chance.
A minivan stopped short in front of the car I was being driven to school in. My head slammed into my case but I thought I was ok, until I got to school and put the lolli in my mouth and piece of one of my incisors came off. I had to have it filed down and now my smile looks kind of off.
Pez.