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by j4yav 898 days ago
Are there places where eating plastics is considered a normal food or food additive?
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Plastic pens

Plastic straws

Plastic Lilly sticks

Plastic tie-wraps

Basically anything that someone might chew on!

Although, licorice roots are okay to chew on... I guess. :-)

> Although, licorice roots are okay to chew on... I guess.

Licorice can be toxic: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962506/

So can water[1]. The dose makes the poison.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

As can Oxygen.
Pacifiers.

If these things break down in unknown/unpublished ways we're all fcked.

i been chewing coca cola caps since the 80s
Just like mom used to make
Check your balls for little coca cola logos.
McDonalds
Subway