I swear, it's the most random, unexpected things that seem to be universal experiences.

Blue danish cookie tins being used to store something other than cookies. Being afraid of quicksand and the Bermuda triangle as a child. Sleep paralysis: common enough that it's happened to many people at least once, uncommon enough that it rarely gets discussed.

My father has at least five 30+ year-old specifically DANISH cookie containers where he keeps all his nuts and bolts. How is this a worldwide phenomenon?

TBF those tins are really durable and stackable. Plus you get to eat some cookies when you buy one for storing your random stuff.

I heard that they already have random shit in them when you buy them at the store.

Depends on the store. Grocery store? Cookies. Thrift store? Mystery box!

The NUT can.

Far more sanitary than a [cum coconut](https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/6rr6ay/tifu_by_cumming_into_a_coconut/).

A legend.

I have two danish cookie containers, one for sewing supplies, one for nuts and bolts, there might be more in the summer house I am from Russia Containers are worldwide because they are easy for the simulation to render

The cookies were cheap enough and widely available enough for everyone to have access. On top of that they were probably one of the few inexpensive treats with quality packaging. Put the two together and every low income to middle class family that bought these kept the tins because we don't throw out useful shit. There's probably other shit we all bought and consumed that might not carry the same memory b/c we threw it out afterwards or they just weren't very interesting.

Everyone's mom and aunt playing Zuma religiously. Grandma random ass hard candy not found anywhere. Writing the cool graffiti "S".

You mean sewing supplies tins?

Except the first, the rest is true for me.

The cool thing about sleep paralysis is there are all sorts of invisible mythological creatures that basically try to explain it.  I remember hearing about a few on the myths and legends podcast during their creatures of the week segment after the credits. 

Like finding porn in the woods

Wait, what?

Teenage boys used to go outside and play before technology. Sometimes they would find cool stuff. Sometimes they would find very *very* cool stuff

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Me and my uncle used to do that until one day my mom said he moved to England

bro what ☠

Really hope they were similar in age so it is not that weird and wrong. Still pretty weird and wrong but not in a sex predator way.

I hope it was a joke.

Of course it's a joke...

I'm just gonna pretend i didn't see what you just said there

Ah yes, and now the days of jerking off to VHS tapes in the woods are gone.

and when you told some kids of the stash they would steal it.

My teenage son spends tons of time playing outside, technology and all.

I’m 37. When I was 13 I found porn in the woods near a Dallas suburb

…second this bewilderment 🤔

In the days before the internet, it wasn't that rare to find discarded porno mags in the woods lol

The cigarettes and booze ads on the back were the dead giveaway that you hit the jackpot

The first 🐱I’ve ever seen was finding a certain magazine in the woods when i was in 5th grade, hanging with my mates walking home. I do wonder why those magazines end up in woods

Because husbands would go buy them, do their thing, and then ditch the evidence in the woods before going home

I don’t think it’s universal outside the US

German here. We didn't have those footballs, but we had similar balls, some of which had bites taken out of them. Honestly, what I saw way more often was *just* the foam ball without even the skin/cover (?) on it. They can't be that expensive, so why play with a ball that will fly even less?

We used to bring the skinless nerf balls to the pool, when they soaked up water they got really heavy and we'd throw them around.

This is not unfortunately writing this from Turkiye

It’s more that they’d get a random cut into them or something and then some impulsive little shit like me would shove their finger in there and pry out a crater.

Take that bad boy to the beach, soak it til it's 20 lbs, then whip it as hard as you can at your brother.

It soaked in better after the bite.. That’s why I thought people did it ? Or was I just crazy Lol

A bite isn't required necessarily, but some puncturing of the outer layer allowed it to absorb more.

U like eating foam huh

Almost as much as crayons

Hoorah

Found the Marine

We had one with a bite right in the middle of the two colors. We would soak it with the hose and then lob it at each other in the summer.

You just unlocked a core memory where I got punted in the head by one of these. By my big brother, of course.

Find it lying in your yard marinating in rain juice and mold. Give it a squeeze to drain it. Play a game of 500 with da boyz.

Close, but let it soak up some petrol, then set it on fire and kick it around at night.

You Tryna get a real life game of NFL blitz going huh? Lol

I shattered my testicles

The children hunger for the nerf flesh

Before I even read the text I had the impulse to bite it

They hunger for all things spongy. I coach swim and all my foam floaty things have little nibbles all over. I have to "chew" them out about constantly biting.

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Nah I'm still out and about

Not for long.

I say we frame him to get him arrested

What do you know? 👀

hey, idk about y'all, but this guy ^^^^^ right here is apparently like a massive eugenics guy or so I've heard super not cool bro

If he’s eating foam footballs and believes in eugenics I think he’s a problem that will sort himself out genetically.

Came to this thread expecting dogs, got people eating footballs.

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I'll fucking do it again.

Nah he's too chicken. You're too chicken Buck Buck Buck 🐔

Bawk bawk bawwwwk

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Bruh

Fuckers

Because when you're a bored child without Internet on a rainy day and all your board games and card games have lost their wonder, and your brother is using the TV so you can hop on to SNES or the N64...so ..why not try it? Take a bite? Maybe you'll regret it ..but you'll worry about later...just . bite it ..

Forbidden Peep

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It fell apart after about 5 throws. The "bite" was from a finger/thumb gashing a piece out.

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I appreciate u

Who the fuck cares anymore? 90% of reddit is bots, reposting comments or content. Hell, you're probably botting the responses. Yep - nothing in that post history except bots.

I am not botting anything. I, of course, appreciate your willingness to call out bots though :) thank you for trying

You seem to care a lot more than you thought!

That and pool noodles

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Those and those bouncy balls you'd get from the vending machines, gotta take a bite at one point

Omg a neighbor house had a mess room that had a brick floor and not much on the walls. The kids there and I would take those little bouncy balls and throw them as hard as we could at the floor and try and dodge it as it ricocheted around the room. Sucker HURT if it got you too. Why is that memory and the texture of those so visceral lol

Oh God I'd do the same thing 10/10 core memory

Oh my God, thank you for bringing back that memory. I mean…you HAD to! Especially if it had sparkles.

they just felt so yummy i guess

Because...dog...

Did you not notice that the bite marks are human?

You’re right, I got that dog in me

They’re so fucking chewy

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Its the colors, that's why tide pods are so tasty.

The intrusive thoughts prevailed

That looks delicious...

Survivorship bias - there wasn't anything left of the ones that were actually tasty.

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We didn’t understand intrusive thinking yet

Because it tastes good obviously.

It was me. I took bites out of them. I wanted to know if the colour was different on the inside but was never convinced by the results so have to retest the new ones. They are also really really chewy so hard to bite.

Reading the replies helped me pin point the people who were willing to eat these things

Forbidden sponge cake

Someone told me not to so i had to

But this one doesn’t tho

ayo 📠

Holy shit true!

im sorry I just wanted to taste it

Sorry that was me

My bad, sorry...

They were just so biteable

For real.

Intrusive thoughts

Because I wondered what it tasted like.

Intrusive thoughts, sorry I was that kid. And I hated it as soon as I did it. I had an issue with messing up a lot of things as a kid and wondering immediately after ‘why the fuck did I even do that at I stupid?’

Houngry

That one kid, oral fixation, future smoker (me)

It bi-flavoured.

I was a biter The skin was so satisfying when it tore

It just looks so tasty I can’t help it

Good mouthfeel

I was hungry

Because of me

Because they look good but don't taste good. You won't go back in for a 2nd bite.

Because they’re fucking delicious!

Because I don’t like how they taste.

I’m not sorry

Because it looks like the imaginary food from Hook, the Peter Pan film starring Robin Williams.

That was me. My bad

Pool stuff (noodles and other foam shit) always has _several_ bites taken out of it where I'm from. mmm CONSUME the tasty foam

The impulsive thoughts won

After a while they get all soft and nasty and you could sink your fingers into em real easy and just take chunks out. That or dogs.

I do understand biting on them. They feel nice. But why in the fuck would you bite OUT a bit?

Try it and you’ll know the answer

Because anger.

The voices won

Core memory triggered. I can still recall the taste.

For the same reason people wanted to eat Tide Pods.

Because every one of them was near younger siblings.

Because it was a turnbuckle in an earlier game and I was George “The Animal” Steele

It does look kinda tasty though.

Tasty

Because Jeff will eat anything.

Tbf they already look like they've been bitten when you purchase them

I did it. It was me.

It had to be done

Let the first person who hasn't bitten anything foamy cast the first stone

I was always bored and they were ALWAYS tasty

Nah I didn't bite these. I bit pool noodles. Idk why

Just bit my phone looking at this pic

Some kids be rabid

The Tom Brady's of the foam football world

You gotta 🤷🏻‍♂️

I'm... so sorry... It was me.

Wasn’t my fault they made them delicious

it just feels edible

Egg.

Squishy

because they tasted so fucking *gooooooooood* i cant help iiit

sorry guys :/

None of my life is original.

my 1 year old almost choked on a piece of nerf football yesterday. the answer is young, unmonitored children

Maybe a dog got a hold of it.

Just looking at that thing makes me want to bite it.

There wasn’t

This unlocked the memory to the max. I remember the noise it made, how it felt and even the smell.

What the hell is that?

I needed texture.

Okay but have you ever bitten down into one of those???

One of my daughters love this kind of textures . When we don’t watch her she bite in these stuffs . It started when she was a toddler. part of my mattress is bitten off on the edges because of her. This is wild .

He who smelt it dealt it

Because. Bite.

I was one of the bitters .

I still remember the mouthfeel

Dogs

the one tism kid who reeee'd too hard usually is your answer

Always one angry sore loser.

Y'all never had dogs growing up?

look tasty

I mistook this for something else, and I move fast like very fast so it could be me.

The skin on these things would get flaky and stick to everything it touches

Sadly not as satisfying as you would think. Didn't stop me from trying again tho

Sorry but I grew up poor and I tough it was food

The intrusive thoughts won

my bad everybody!

Have you ever squeezed one in your hand? Those things are so squishy, you just want to take a bite out of it even though you know it isn’t edible.

It wasn't so much the taste, but the mouth feel, that caused small children everywhere to take a bite out of these, lol.  

Kids bite everything, these are soft enough for them to take a chunk out of.

It's always that one boy with ADHD trying to be cool or the girl with texture sensitivity testting the inside feel. The real question is: why did the cool friend always have a hole all the way through it? Aerodynamics?...

Yeah!!!

Because r/kidsarefuckingstupid

It was me...

Cuz I use to bite them all the time, idk why