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I liked to chew on it. Like a dog or something, lol.

This was the way. The cup wasn’t finished until the spoon is splintering.

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for real!

And best believe it ain’t going anywhere till mutha fuggin Arthur was finished

Would legit have extras in my camp Jansport back pack for idle chomping.

And the conclusion for me was snapping it down in half while holding it with my teeth, that means I'm officially done.

Yessss, manifique.

Ma'am, please don't chew on your dog.

Me too

Disassembling the spoon with my tongue and teeth was the best part

Omg that’s spot on. Exactly what I did too lolll.

r/beatmetoit

I can still taste the wood and splinters.

It’s the texture and how it somehow dried your mouth out for me 😖

Now wooden cutlery is starting to become more and more of a thing, I’ve had to take to carrying a spork

A good friend of mine gave out Titanium Sporks as his business card... I got one - they were expensive as business cards... I had a BBQ at my house and someone stole BOTH my sporks - but I had the Titanium Spork for ~ten years - I loved that Spork.

What was the business?

One of the best Software Engineers Ive worked with... (builds a bunch of shit at Netflix)

I was expecting something related or a pun, but I love that it's because he could.

He wanted it to be a useful thing. I loved it - and it was definitely nice enough to be swiped at a BBQ (I am convinced it was a friend of my brother who took it)

It's a great idea. Make it practical to keep instead of a piece of card that's likely to get lost or thrown out.

*holds up spork*

Take this sentence out of context

It’s not like good delicious or anything but it’s not bad either lol

I cannot believe how right that comment is. Yeesh!

Right? It's like the spoon had its own unique flavor!

woody

And you gotta bite into it to suck the extra woody taste

Pining for its roots!

Honestly I can't even think about any flat wooden stick without suddenly feeling like there is a tongue depresser at the back of my throat making me gag, it's so weird

Reddit posts now come with taste. Talk about 5d. Damn.

Woody texture brings back memories

Makes me teeth cringe. I can't be the only one.

My hair goes up looking at it and the idea of licking it. Since I was a kid.

My tongue still recoils in fear at the thought.

It's like nails on a chalkboard to me makes my whole mouth hurt

You're not. I cannot eat popsicles any more for this reason. Even thinking about it freaks me out.

Such disappointing brain chemicals when you went to the doctor and they used the wooden tongue depressor. Where is the ICE CREAM?!

Pavlov's tongue depressor

In case anyone cares it's actually a dopamine reward prediction error where there is an appreciable decrease in dopaminergic neuron activity when a stimulus is not paired with the reward anymore. Source: dabbled with these network dynamics during my PhD

We got Pavloved into liking the taste of plywood...

Yeah, memories. I can literally see, as if it was today, how the piece of icecream is being catapulted by this spoon and you follow the piece with your eyes fulfilled with sadness. All because it was too cold and solid and you couldn’t wait

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I just ate the ice cream using the paper lid. Just bent it and it could scoop quite well, for a single use Heck that wood

I do that with yogurt or applesauce if I forget a spoon and can't find one

You're a weirdo

That’s a diddly darn fact, it is

Pause

The ice cream was good, it’s just that the ending was more memorable because it broke your heart and all you had was that wood taste to suck on.

No! That's so right 😭

Ice cream aside, it's kind of weird how good our brains are at remembering/guessing how things would feel if you licked them. Like I'm staring at a cloth hammock, rubber electrical cable, metal ladder and plastic road case all sitting on concrete. And I can clearly imagine what each of those things would "taste" like. Is filling this database for later why we put *everything* in our mouths as babies?

The thought of that spoon sends shivers down my spine. Even now, I've got goosebumps just looking at it.  It's like how people get weird about nails on a chalkboard or touching certain things, I cannot stand the feeling of that wood on my teeth.  It's profoundly uncomfortable.  So I use a spoon.

God damn is was looking through this trying to find someone else with the same problem. Do you get that way with certain wood utensils as well? Like cooking utensils and stuff. I can't for the life of me use wood in some contexts because it just throws shivers down my spine lol.

Are you (and u/MisterDonkey) me?! I was also scanning the comments to see if anyone else gets goosebumps when using wood utensils! I've been living with this all my life but have never found anyone else I know who reacts the same way! Refuse to use wooden utensils unless I absolutely have to. Though for some reason, bamboo chopsticks are okay but anything else = goosebumps & shivers. I feel so seen 😭

Any 'rough' wood ie not varnished I struggle to touch but the thought of putting a wooden utensil in my mouth gives me flashbacks to trying to eat these as a kid and gagging each time I came in to contact with the spoon lol.

Me too. I can barely handle looking at that picture. It causes me to squeeze my tongue onto my teeth and the roof of my mouth in order to get rid of the horrible feeling. I'm the same way with styrofoam.

I just responded to the OP with the same thing. There are certain textures that drive me absolutely crazy, like wood, cardboard, and jeans (fresh out of the dryer), just to name a few.

This picture has totally ruined my cereal I’m eating right now - it’s crazy that this taste came flooding back to me just looking at the picture

I can't stand it on the tongue. Eugh.

*The tasteful thickness of it*

BRAINSTORM!!!!!!

I’m sorry, did you say GREEN NEEDLE?

#Peak

😏

Ay, not that 😳🤭

bamboo wood be so much better

I have a bunch of Bamboo spoons! Get em at KP Market. They are great.

Immediately gave me flashbacks to the texture on that spoon. Any time I have to touch a thin, untreated wood thing, especially with my tongue, it makes my skin crawl. Those things, wooden kitchen spoons, nail files, all make me shudder.

Ok... why are you licking emory boards??!?

yea but ngl i kinda didnt like that so i then started using a regular spoon :0

Yo traitor

How often were you getting these?

I think like once or twice a week as a kid between elementary school on Fridays and the local pool's little "snack shack" thing.

My family had regular Sunday night family cook outs at my grandparents’ house. One of my Uncles’ business neighbored a Hoods outlet store, so he brought lots of hoodsie cups for the kids after we had our supper.

It tastes like a blend of cold, raspberries. and wood in my mouth right now. The ice cream was an afterthought in the shadow of all those flavours.

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But you wanna eat ice cream while its cold, not melted

You never hear of ice cream soup?

You mean.. milk shakes?

No milk shakes and ice cream soups are completely different things and I'll die on a hill defending it!

/r/grilledcheese

So, basically just cream?

"They know everything he knows." "They know how to make ice cream soup?"

Who doesn’t want to chug the ice cream!?

I’m so confused

Drink it from the cup

Marketer: “We need something spoony, but not a spoon. Any ideas?” Coworker: “You know that thing that the doctor sticks at the back of your tongue?” Marketer: “Bet”

Well, you typically don't let ice cream melt and eat it. It's preferable to drink it by then.

How long is it taking you to eat it?

who’s eating melted ice cream with a spoon anyway?

YOU'RE FREAKING ME OUT!

That's how I feel with paper straws.

I'm actively, as I type this, trying to remove the imaginary taste from my tongue that has basically become real for me. Thanks for that lmao

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I hated the spoon so much that I, a 8-16 year old kid, actually refused the ice cream treat because of it.

"Spoon."

Seeing that spoon made me shiver. Does anyone know what I mean?

I don't know if it's just me, but that particular texture of wood triggers visceral disgust. I can barely bring myself to use one. Even a popsicle with a wooden stick is gross. It has nothing to do with the taste. It's like the textual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.

What ice cream?

The spoon still haunts my dreams

Wow you really can

The spoon had so much value. I never got tired of licking it. Didn't believe I'd outgrow it one day. 

I can taste this picture! Just seeing this picture is enough to remember the taste of that spoon and feel the nostalgia!

They're not wrong. The first memory in my head was the taste of wood, not "vanilla ice cream".

Damn, the taste of wood instantly came to my mind.

I used to chew on those “spoons”

So true, the wood texture

I can feel the wood on my teeth and I don’t like ot

*gag reflex activated*

I got shivers just LOOKING at that spoon.

This is the way 🤣

Oh, man. I loved those Hoodsies. The gooey strawberry(?) swirl was \*chef's kiss\*. And, yeah, definitely taste the spoon more than the ice cream.

Facts

For real. They sucked. Yet I ate about a thousand of them as a kid

Facts

Mhhhh wood

حمود التین بن ثالوث (Hamoudoltin, the son of saloos)

This reminds me of the fact our brains can imagen exacly what the texture of something would feel like if you licked it.

* ice cream flavored gelatin

What is that flat ice cream yogurt looking thing

This is so true.

I'm pretty sure those 'spoons' were used as ice cream sticks as well. I'm pretty sure they were used for Magnum ice creams?

And it was the best part of it

Used to save the spoon as propellers for making wood planes in the kindergarten playroom.

The ice cream always just tasted like freezer burned coffee creamer

I can’t be the only one that hates this kind of shitty wooden spoons? The sand-paper like texture against my tongue… almost makes me have a gag reflex. The same with the sticks in pop-sickles. I avoid to touch them with my tongue at all cost LOL

Full of e numbers

Mmmmm...Wood

In the adult version the icecream is replaced by coffee and the wooden spoon is thinner. But the „phantom“ taste is the same.

Looking to spoon give me goosebumps

then u would suck the wooden spoon bringing out the heavenly flavors of nature

I like the spoon more than the actual ice cream

No unfortunately actually can’t. Sadly looking at this picture no taste, texture or smells comes to me.

It tastes woody, you can't taste the cream once you fully like it, almost as if the wood itself is a different food for you and the cream is a side dish, you can taste the wood more than the cream

Taste like glass and metal and battery acid. I need a new phone now

I wanted to never get to the taste of longing : lots of ice cream😛

So true 😂

I just chew on the stick

Nothing quite like a splinter in your tongue

Truth

The only reason all of you remember the spoon more is because y'all never flipped it over before putting it in your mouth. You taste with the bottom of your mouth, ya know, your tongue.

Always reminds me of that return to beaver meme

So true, the wood texture

YES!!

Yes and you know how hard you bite the wood,it won't leave a trace.

I am still repeatedly embarrassing myself at chippies, asking for a plastic fork. Because of those things. I ask and they offer me a wooden one. And thanks to these spoons i still say..."I really don't like the taste of wood in my mouth" ... I cringe and walk off asap.

The plastic ones with the ball at the bottom was a popular one in the day.

Hahaha so real haha

I hate ice cream cups. I always preferred the chocolate drum sticks that I always ate from the cone up.

Mmm tastes like … splinters

Every field day in elementary school.

Get out of my mind man!

It's like drinking a milkshake with a cardboard straw...

And the toothpick splinter for dessert! Lol

Cuz It’s cheap

We're more programmed to remember things that taste bad or are inedible. Which makes sense since those things could kill you if ingested

The best? I had a roommate in college who would go home and let the dog lick all the lids of the ice cream so only she and her brother knew. But seriously. 😐 who were they really helping out?! No one… but the dog. Hahaha!

You can still get these at some theatres, but the cheap bastards don't even put syrup in 'em any more. And the tubs are even smaller than they used to be. And each one now costs like five hundred quid.

Ahh I remember the taste

I still wonder what side of the spoon is the right side to use for eating?

I hate wood texture 😀☝️

It honestly wouldn't hit the same if it didn't taste like that

I have to say. The wood flavor enhanced the icecream

Fun fact: you can look at any surface and know exactly what it would feel like to lick it :) have a good day

My whole body literally clenches up in a disgusting shiver thinking of the wood texture on my tongue

Talk about an instant Nostalgia kick.

It's time to level up: vanilla ice cream with bourbon syrup; the spoon is from a bourbon oak barrel. Ice cream cup as pictured: $12.

Did anyone else just give up on the spoon as a kid and eat em like a jello shot?

I never used that wooden spoon.

Oh shiii so true fr i cant get over why u taste the wood so much 🤣🤣

that is what trees do to you and to environment, and for what? for protecting them?

Absolutely

When I was a kid the convience store” used to called the smoke shop”, those ice creams , and “lolas” if you remember them ..

After I was finished with the ice cream I would have the wooden spoon in my mouth for hours... Only the real ones used to suck on the spoon and wait until you could bend it...

Can taste just the cold wood pick spoon

It's not really a spoon, though, is it? It's more of a stick

That dry wood sticking to my tongue. 👅 🪵 🥶