Have you ever tried to eat a starch-based packing peanut (the forbidden corn snacks)(Repost for sample size!)

[Gæst]

@yavien@hackerspace.pl …simply because I’ve never seen one, no

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@yavien @Newpa_Hasai I voted "no" because I haven't but I *have* licked them

[piggo@piggo.space]

@yavien I certainly licked it. You can stick them together

[coldclimate@hachyderm.io]

@yavien love them

[apbblue@thepit.social]

@yavien No, but I've definitely poured water on them to watch them dissolve.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@yavien

yup. overall, i consider them no better and no worse than quinoa. tastewise too.

[lexyeen@plush.city]

@yavien they're like if a vampire sucked the flavor out of a cheetoh tbh

[asokel@ohai.social]

@yavien wait they arent edible

[asokel@ohai.social]

@yavien I MEAN NO. NO. I HAVENT. NO

[vi_zzyzx@mstdn.social]

@yavien 🫣 my last dog would sneak the forbidden Cheetos

[maddiem4@raphus.social]

@yavien As soon as I found out they were technically edible, it was just a matter of time before I tried one. Very stale. Made me think a few seconds afterwards: "yes, it's edible ingredients, but I don't know where it's been." Didn't continue eating them.

[vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de]

@asokel @yavien

they don't taste particularly nice (or even of anything), but you can eat them and it won't make you unwell or even give you a rough stomach (at least they didn't do me any harm, although I'm not inclined to regularly snack on them)

[gilgwath@social.tchncs.de]

@piggo @yavien Yes! Exactly that. Juding by my (not) very accurate recreation of Minas Tirith, I probably have cumulatively eaten at leatst one packing peanut 🤭

[pencilears@mastodon.eternalaugust.com]

@yavien best prank to play on newbies at work is munching on the packing Cheetos.

[asokel@ohai.social]

@vfrmedia @yavien oh. ok

[stonebear2@hachyderm.io]

@yavien no, but I've flushed many of them down a sink with hot water...

[stx@mastodon.scot]

@yavien I don't like peanuts.

[solderandchaos@mastodon.me.uk]

@yavien fun fact, if you keep them in an open warehouse the rats will eventually find them and then you have no packing peanuts.

Switch back to the foam plastic ones and the rats spend about a week very confused.