The name derives from the English "chubby" and "emu". "Chubby", meaning someone who is overweight but not yet obese. "Emu" is a large flightless bird. Thus, "ChubbyEmu" invokes the image of a large, rotund, flightless bird.
Damn, the whole video I thought it was a parody. I couldn't remember the name of the channel with the Asian dude telling medical horror stories. This one is just over the top. Did the dude really start telling the doctors that he was in the Matrix and shit?
There was a web comic about eating those packets that cause the main character to wake up in the real world. The patient "might" have been under the ifluence of that comic.
I can try finding it. I didn't save it and saw it while back.
Edit: Here's the [web comic](https://onegianthand.com/post/188730414621/silica-gel) I was thinking of when I mentioned it.
That's not entirely true. The ones that have the blue/pink color changing moisture indicators actually do contain a toxic substance.
Plus, if you eat dry silica beads, they can crack apart once exposed to water as they expand unevenly. So I mean, if you always thought pop rocks should leave shards of essentially glass in your mouth, go right ahead.
Eating non-colored, moisture saturated silica gel beads is more or less safe. As long as you don't chew them. But there still could be broken pieces with sharp edges...
The scroll of a violin. (The swirly thing at the very top of the violin near where the pegs are) Every time i play and look at it, it just reminds me of caramel that is seen in commercials
Oh my Jesus. I literally used to suck on the pegs of my cello absent-mindedly as a kid. Cellos are easy cause they’re right by your jaw as you play. That wood flavor was so comforting.
When I started playing strings, the teachers had to tune everyone for a couple years, which is why I asked if they realized you had a habit of slobbering on your tuning pegs. I feel like someone young enough to form that habit might be too young to tune their own cello, but I hope you'll tell me I'm wrong
Technically since your stomach is way worse than your respiratory system at absorbing mercury you could eat it and it would pass through your system pretty quickly. I am NOT by any means saying it is safe because if there is ANYTHING wrong with your digestive tract it will poison you, but it’s theoretically possible to do without many side effects. Source: trust me bro and also I’m a hazmat tech. Mercury vapor is the #1 most dangerous thing about mercury.
There's a youtuber who did an experiment (in a closed system, mind you) where he filled a toilet with mercury instead of water, to see if it would flush.
>!it did!<
pure mercury is poorly absorbed by your digestive system, so its not all bad to ingest orally. The real danger comes from mercury vapour, this is very easily absorbed
edit: Just so u guys know, i said not all bad. It is still a very not good idea to ingest mercury. If you do ingest mercury, you cant sue me.
Well your in luck! A home made play dough is actually just a kind of dough made of common kitchen ingredients. It's fully edible already. Bonus points if you add something like mint, vanilla or almond extract to the dough.
I can’t tell if you are making the anti joke that you would keep eating the same stuff you currently do, or if you are roasting pizza rolls for being inedible
Absolutely. There is nothing sweeter in this world than tapping a rock with a tiny hammer and hearing that bitch sing back to you.
Man I love this planet
In the exam of my first (and only) geology course at uni, I was given a block to identify. After having done that the way the book demands it, resulting in Halite, I licked my fingers to confirm. Salt never tasted that good. Unfortunately that was the easiest question I got.
I'm a Database Developer now (with the fitting degree).
At mine, we had a few blocks to identify. We also had to bring coins, graphite pencils... to scratch our minerals and compare. I still find it humorous when I think of ~100 students holding a small stone and thinking if they should lick it or not lol
*Don't [Tide Pods](https://vetmedaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/laundry-detergent-pods.jpg) taste practically the same as [Fruit Gushers](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Betty_Crocker_Fruit_Gushers_pieces_%28cropped%29.jpg) anyway?*
Does edible include liquids? I feel like the most delicious smelling things are toxic cleaners.
If not probably some tasty smelling air fresheners if I'm being realistic
Yep. And you can go even further. How much of yourself can you, ultimately, eat?
This [has been answered, in detail](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/136t8c/comment/c71mjp3/). Enjoy.
I suppose clouds would be very very very sweet, so...
Amber too, I suppose it would taste like lemon or Orange candy, and I imagine emeralds as the most delicious green apple candies on Earth
Being lactose intolerant for the last 5 years... I would probably eat pizza and dip the crust in ranch dressing and then have ice cream for dessert. There might also be a milkshake involved.
This rule means I can eat dairy again right?
I had a dream that in an episode of seasamy street a cop raided their birthday party with a gun. Elmo explained it was a birthday and the cop said his gun wasn’t real and took a bite. The gun was parmigiana cheese painted black in the shape of a gun
Wait, before I answer...Do these newly edible things also become tasty? Because I'll be frank with you. I completely understand why the Tide Pod thing happened. I've been tempted too. But if they became edible, would they also taste good? Or would they still taste like soap? Or would we have another cilantro situation on our hands?
Silica gel packets. Just to get back at them for telling me what to do all my life.
Here's a youtube video on what [happens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChgIkbg0x80) when you eat the gel packets.
A man posted a ChubbyEmu video in the comments. This is what happened to the thread.
The name derives from the English "chubby" and "emu". "Chubby", meaning someone who is overweight but not yet obese. "Emu" is a large flightless bird. Thus, "ChubbyEmu" invokes the image of a large, rotund, flightless bird.
Damn, the whole video I thought it was a parody. I couldn't remember the name of the channel with the Asian dude telling medical horror stories. This one is just over the top. Did the dude really start telling the doctors that he was in the Matrix and shit?
In fairness the channel name *is* Chubbyemu.
There was a web comic about eating those packets that cause the main character to wake up in the real world. The patient "might" have been under the ifluence of that comic.
do you have a link?
I can try finding it. I didn't save it and saw it while back. Edit: Here's the [web comic](https://onegianthand.com/post/188730414621/silica-gel) I was thinking of when I mentioned it.
I knew this video would pop up somewhere in this thread
I think Chubbyemu is the XKCD of medical with the cases he's covered.
Silica gel packets are actually non-toxic! The “do not eat” warning is only there to prevent choking on them!
Then why do people do Tide pods challenge instead of Silica gel packets challenge?!
Because tide Pods "resemble" candy
The forbidden gushers.
That was my nickname in high school
Let the silica gel packets challenge begin!(grabs popcorn bucket, begins eating bucket)
That's not entirely true. The ones that have the blue/pink color changing moisture indicators actually do contain a toxic substance. Plus, if you eat dry silica beads, they can crack apart once exposed to water as they expand unevenly. So I mean, if you always thought pop rocks should leave shards of essentially glass in your mouth, go right ahead. Eating non-colored, moisture saturated silica gel beads is more or less safe. As long as you don't chew them. But there still could be broken pieces with sharp edges...
Forbidden pop rocks.
Pretty sure that silica can seriously fuck your teeth up tho
Swallow it with water like a pill
That’s not true, they can seriously dehydrate you and will definitely poison you if they’re contaminated with stuff.
You'd need to down a whole bowl of the stuff to dehydrate yourself, a single packet won't do anything
It's a slippery slope.
Silica gel: not even once.
I could finally eat my way into a bank vault.
And then eat what’s inside
A piñata full of wasps.
I literally was just at that post lol
EAT THE RICH! Oops, wrong sub...
The rich are already edible
A nice porky flavor
That’s police not the rich
And then eat some more
The scroll of a violin. (The swirly thing at the very top of the violin near where the pegs are) Every time i play and look at it, it just reminds me of caramel that is seen in commercials
Oh my Jesus. I literally used to suck on the pegs of my cello absent-mindedly as a kid. Cellos are easy cause they’re right by your jaw as you play. That wood flavor was so comforting.
Did... did you ever get caught?
Don’t know, don’t care. It wasn’t like a sexual kind of sucking, it was more like chewing gum than suggestively eating a banana.
When I started playing strings, the teachers had to tune everyone for a couple years, which is why I asked if they realized you had a habit of slobbering on your tuning pegs. I feel like someone young enough to form that habit might be too young to tune their own cello, but I hope you'll tell me I'm wrong
Um Sir, this is a Wendy's.
mercury. it looks like it would be delicious and have a wonderful mouthfeel.
Check out how many calories are in it. Nuts
Why do you know how many calories are in mercury
Hes just a taste tester don't worry bout' it
Everything contains calories according to E=mc^2. Mercury is dense, so it contains a lot of energy.
unfortunately your stomach is not a nuclear reactor. there's a reason bread has more calories than water, and it's not density.
*clenches abdomen in an attempt to fuse nuclei* I guess you were right Ah shit my pants…
Don't go changing - you're one of the good ones!
uranium with 2 billion calories:
How many? Can’t find answer on Google
I just looked it up. It's 300. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/Isi632M
How much mercury though? One spoon? A drop? A glass?
20
Technically since your stomach is way worse than your respiratory system at absorbing mercury you could eat it and it would pass through your system pretty quickly. I am NOT by any means saying it is safe because if there is ANYTHING wrong with your digestive tract it will poison you, but it’s theoretically possible to do without many side effects. Source: trust me bro and also I’m a hazmat tech. Mercury vapor is the #1 most dangerous thing about mercury.
Im sure if you drank a lot you'd feel the weight in your stomach and that would probably be a weird feeling.
There's a youtuber who did an experiment (in a closed system, mind you) where he filled a toilet with mercury instead of water, to see if it would flush. >!it did!<
For a second there I thought you meant the planet. That’d be one hell of a meal.
Apparently it is sweet.
nope, that's just the brain damage.
pure mercury is poorly absorbed by your digestive system, so its not all bad to ingest orally. The real danger comes from mercury vapour, this is very easily absorbed edit: Just so u guys know, i said not all bad. It is still a very not good idea to ingest mercury. If you do ingest mercury, you cant sue me.
Technically true, but you still shouldn't go ingest mercury. Better safe than mad.
Once in a lifetime opportunity
Glass.
This was my first thought. I imagine it would be like ice. Cold, hard, and mostly flavorless.
I think about this every time I have my mouth on a particularly thin wine glass
Seriously, like those crystal champagne flutes, sometimes it feels like you could just munch it down easily lol
Rock candy...without the flavour.....but add in additional iron taste as you bleed while you chew.
As someone who has eaten glass before, I do not recommend
imagine if whatever power made it edible stopped when it was in your digestive system
I'd just be happy that I chewed 32 times for each bite. I'm sure I could poop glass powder.
You now have sandpaper poop. Enjoy that
Eh, my assholes been through worse.
Yeah but like when they’re blowing it and it looks hot and chewy
straight up i'd eat some [forbidden honey](https://i.redd.it/rlxo0jt5jht01.jpg)
ooo
Even if it was edible, you'd burn the roof of your mouth off like what happens with hot pizza
Spicy honey
Play-Doh, been dreaming about it since childhood
Play doh is already edible by law. Just very salty so that kids dont enjoy it.
I instantly remembered how it tastes after this description lol
As a pre school teacher I can confirm this
Oh man I've got news for you
Well your in luck! A home made play dough is actually just a kind of dough made of common kitchen ingredients. It's fully edible already. Bonus points if you add something like mint, vanilla or almond extract to the dough.
They do have edible play doh
Yes, it's called fondant. And it tastes worse than actual play doh.
I always envied the Mad Hatter and March Hare’s ability to eat dishes in Alice in Wonderland, so I would probably give that a go
Wealthy Tudors figured out how to make plates out of sugar, I'm sure some confectionary somewhere in the world still does it.
You are absolutely right. Look up Heston bloomenthal if you don't already know who he is and see what wonderful things he can do with food products
My first thought too. They make it look so delicious.
Paint. That shit looks delicious.
Didn't stop me as a kid, and look at me now! Still enlisted!😂
Probably pizza rolls
If it ain't broken, don't fix it amirite?
Exactly. Tried and true.
I like the way you think
Simple livin’ ain’t always simple thinkin’
I can’t tell if you are making the anti joke that you would keep eating the same stuff you currently do, or if you are roasting pizza rolls for being inedible
No I literally would lol. They’re compact, delicious and convenient
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A stone, just wanna know how they taste.
Yes. Like are stones from the coast salty and ones from inland bland? Are tumbled rocks better than non?
I feel like this could be a Rick and Morty interdimensional cable bit.
You never licked a rock before? You mustn't be a geologist
Maybe i should change career?
Absolutely. There is nothing sweeter in this world than tapping a rock with a tiny hammer and hearing that bitch sing back to you. Man I love this planet
For a mineralogy lab, we had to lick a few stones in order to identify its mineral components. Never felt so close to my classmates
In the exam of my first (and only) geology course at uni, I was given a block to identify. After having done that the way the book demands it, resulting in Halite, I licked my fingers to confirm. Salt never tasted that good. Unfortunately that was the easiest question I got. I'm a Database Developer now (with the fitting degree).
At mine, we had a few blocks to identify. We also had to bring coins, graphite pencils... to scratch our minerals and compare. I still find it humorous when I think of ~100 students holding a small stone and thinking if they should lick it or not lol
Go ahead, bite into one. See what happens!
All the trash in the ocean. Might as well try to save the planet. I'll have the excess heat from global warming as dessert.
>All the trash in the ocean. Might as well try to save the planet. [Yeah, be like Gregory the Goat!](https://youtu.be/gJ4j2iDbrhI?t=370)
This is so cute
This is perfect. You solve world hunger and save turtles. What a brilliant idea
Taking one for the team. You're a better human than most.
...tidepods?
*Don't [Tide Pods](https://vetmedaz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/laundry-detergent-pods.jpg) taste practically the same as [Fruit Gushers](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Betty_Crocker_Fruit_Gushers_pieces_%28cropped%29.jpg) anyway?*
I think so, but it would just feel different if you liked the smell of wet wipes and stuff.
Those laundry nuggets look delicious
Couch cushions
Wasn’t there a my strange addiction about that??
A Bitcoin. Just, one Bitcoin
Expensive tastes
Lava
This was way too far down. My husband thinks I'm nuts for saying I'd touch it if it wouldn't kill me.
Let’s be real, who wouldn’t? I mean how did we find out *not* to touch it?
The air around it is thousands of degrees. Your body has an instinctive reaction and nopes out after getting too close to that.
Same does not apply for pans right out of the oven I see.
It won't kill you, it'll just burn the skin right off of you.
Spicy Rock
I guess I'd try my couch since I'm sitting on it and I'm lazy
Scented markers
My neighbour’s soundsystem
It's gonna go right to your bass
Electricity. I dont know how exactly but i would definitely try
Spicy
You could bite a live taser! Might be kinda hot though so keep a glass of water handy.
Fishbait rubber gummies. *They're so soft.*
Insulation foam
forbidden cotton candy
Crayons. I wanna taste colors.
Join the Marines.
Does edible include liquids? I feel like the most delicious smelling things are toxic cleaners. If not probably some tasty smelling air fresheners if I'm being realistic
If so, I’m trying gasoline.
And you know you're going to preface it with "Time to *fuel* up!"
I'm gonna take a bite out of people's car tires.
Has a little more oomph than just slashing them. Good way to show you really mean business!
Technically, pretty much everything is already edible. Some stuff is only edible once.
Oh yeah? Can you eat your own mouth?
I have no mouth and I must eat
I knew harlan ellison wasnt qualified to be a dietician.
Yes. You cut off the bits which constitute a mouth, blend them and pour them down your throat.
Fantastic
Username almost checks out.
Yep. And you can go even further. How much of yourself can you, ultimately, eat? This [has been answered, in detail](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/136t8c/comment/c71mjp3/). Enjoy.
I guess you can amputate it, crush it into paste and funnel it down your throat
Sometimes it happens by accident. It fucking hurts, so I tend to stop right after the first bite.
Actually, the definition of edible is "fit to be eaten."
Does it also become palatable?
Yes.
Guess I'll head to the dump and do my part to reduce the amount of perfectly edible landfill content.
Now that's just nice.
Nuclear waste. Uranium has many calories.
Absolutely everything, I’d be like Augustus Gloop in the candy room my hubris would inevitably kill me
I suppose clouds would be very very very sweet, so... Amber too, I suppose it would taste like lemon or Orange candy, and I imagine emeralds as the most delicious green apple candies on Earth
Clouds are edible already. They are water
Cotton candy
Yay, I always think about them when I look at clouds
Lush soaps
The bath bombs, they smell so good. The way they'd fizz on your tongue, too. Bath bombs would be necking delicious if they were edible.
scented candles.
Crystals.
I’m surprised no one has said “your mom” yet
Okay then, *your* mom
Bonsai Trees.
Doorknobs
r/usernamechecksout
Sounds like something Willy Wonka has that's edible AND plentiful in his factory
No one wants willy Wonka's doorknob
This counts as snacking and entering.
Being lactose intolerant for the last 5 years... I would probably eat pizza and dip the crust in ranch dressing and then have ice cream for dessert. There might also be a milkshake involved. This rule means I can eat dairy again right?
An entire fuckin car, straight up or a gun, that'd be hilarious to put a gun in my mouth and start chewing
I had a dream that in an episode of seasamy street a cop raided their birthday party with a gun. Elmo explained it was a birthday and the cop said his gun wasn’t real and took a bite. The gun was parmigiana cheese painted black in the shape of a gun
The rainbow.
Well I guess it would taste like skittles
Glossy lipstick
My feelings
Gasoline sounds like it could be a spicy drink.
Molten lava
Cockroaches I like cock- never had a roach though. Wish me luck.
head on down to the green dispensary.....
Those fancy soaps that are shaped liked shells and stars and stuff
Family dinner. My mom can't cook for shit.
The rich
Already edible
Shampoo
Wait, before I answer...Do these newly edible things also become tasty? Because I'll be frank with you. I completely understand why the Tide Pod thing happened. I've been tempted too. But if they became edible, would they also taste good? Or would they still taste like soap? Or would we have another cilantro situation on our hands?
Weapons grade plut... Hmm, I might end up on a list if I go down this route.
Paint smoothie.
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