Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Anti-Matter Oh carp!

@bimmy-lee You too?! What is it about frozen pizza that destroys mouth rooves while real pizza does not? I still do not understand that phenomenon!! The government needs to spend $500M on a research group for this immediately after the one studying the flow of ketchup reaches a conclusion.

As a Yank, I associate crawdads with Cajun & Creole cuisine, kind of an LA/MS thing entirely. (Of course we have Cajun & Creole restaurants here, so you can get them (at a price.)

@NEStalgia - It’s incredible. Every. Single. Time. Even if I cut it and give it time to cool, the first bite STILL sizzles the roof of my mouth to the point that it just peels right off. I almost went to the hospital once for third degree burn treatment from a Stouffer’s French bread pizza.

@HobbitGamer Well, glad I reminded you of it, then. I still need that second opinion...

@bimmy-lee That's what you get when you don't use smileys and/or words that people might not be familiar with...
But glad I was accidentally able to help you with your frozen pizza conundrum. Another way to prove the validity of my point is to think about the times that you may have accidentally bitten down on the inside of your cheek while eating. In the moment it happens, it feels like an entire flap of skin is hanging on the inside of your mouth, and the next day, it's all but gone.

You must have a really sensitive mouth, though, if you even get it burned when the pizza has already cooled down. Unless of course your definition of "cooled down" differs from the actual one, which still registers as piping hot...

@ThanosReXXX - I usually want to eat the pizza so badly that it skews my sense of time and place. I think I’ve given it enough time to cool off, but in reality, it’s only been enough time to cool from molten to instant mouth blisters. It’s the sauce. That stuff is hot when it’s still frozen.

The near superhuman healing qualities of the mouth really are fascinating though. It seems like an evolutionary trait of species survival. However, is there any pain that makes the eyes water faster than biting a healing cheek bite?

@bimmy-lee Georgia and South Carolina. It’s along the whole river and harbor areas. ‘Lowcountry Boil’ is crawdads, small potatoes, and corn cobs boiled together. Around here (and back in Charleston area), the easy way to catch ‘em is tossing a raw chicken leg in a trap and leaving it in the shallows for awhile. I’ve never had one myself.
I did find one crawling one my porch once, about 100 yards from the closest waterway.

@bimmy-lee Biting a freshly healed wound is probably never that great of a feeling to begin with, but I find tongue bites worse. Because you usually bite down on the side, the teeth scrape along, and the rather instant reaction is of course to retract the tongue, which in my case (don't know if that happens to everyone or just me) sometimes also result in a cramped muscle in my tongue, making the pain last for days. And yes, that is also eye-watering.

For any other kinds of eye-watering pain, I'd happily refer you to any of MTV's Jackass movies...

@Link-Hero And he burns his tongue on it!! Must be getting it fresh off the dry ice 😂

Annnnnd now I'm hungry.

@Ryu_Niiyama The raw chicken is what did it for you.

Dudes..... I've been hungry. Drove half way around Illinois today with no lunch

@HobbitGamer Snicker. Chicken no. If you had said raw octopus then we would have a party.

LOL lady asked about my sharingan today. I have to remember that I say it is a contact (I'm a terrible liar but this is for my safety and sanity) and for like two seconds I almost took it out and handed to her. lol The horrible thoughts amputees have to mess with others.

@bimmy-lee I really don't understand the phenomenon. It's the only food that has that problem. Other oven food doesn't. Searing food off the grill doesn't (unless it's a frozen pizza on the grill). Real pizza doesn't do it. Those fajitas/tandoori food served with the cast iron skillet AS YOUR PLATE while it's still sizzling with a column of steam doesn't do it.

ONLY frozen pizza even 3 hours after it's out of the oven does it. I don't know that it's heat. I think it's a chemical reaction between saliva and whatever they put in those things.....

@Ryu_Niiyama Here, hold my Mega Buster....

@HobbitGamer - That’s a great way to pull in a haul of them, I’ve only caught them by hand. I’ve only eaten them a few times at restaurants, and my dad got them from a store a couple times and did what he called a Hoosier country boil with sweet corn, potatoes, and carrots. I found a blue/grey one once and kept it in an aquarium, but it really didn’t do much at all. Just kinda hid under a rock 20 hrs a day. Kinda crazy to see one crawling across your porch. Must have been on a serious mission, or Jack found a playmate.

@ThanosReXXX - Yeah, a tongue bite is awful, especially a second time around. That’s instant and immediate pain. Oh man, the Jackass guys sure were a slice of exxxtreme early 00s culture. I haven’t thought of them in a while. I watched the show, and the first movie. Did a couple stupid stunts of my own, but nothing too crazy. I remember Steve-O was my favorite, and I really enjoyed when he got a tattoo while riding in a dune buggy over sand moguls. Pretty stupid stuff, but I can enjoy dumb things.

@Link-Hero - I find gnawing on a frozen pizza to be beneficial for two reasons:
1. Jaw strength training.
2. The crust rises inside my stomach, providing the illusion of fullness, so I can eat less and enjoy leftovers.

@NEStalgia - I think you’re on to something. It’s probably the final spray of preservative that both allows the pizzas to stay in a permanent stabile state, and peels the roof of everyone’s mouth because why not?

@NintendoByNature - Would you eat already! Cripes man, you’re making me nervous. Where are you at, I’ll bring you a sandwich?

@bimmy-lee The other two movies were hilariously ridiculous as well, as was the follow-up Bad Grandpa, one you must definitely go see, if you haven't yet. It's all so stupidly infantile, and yet so funny. And the looks on the faces of the various bystanders are always pure gold.

As for that burning of the roof of your mouth with frozen pizzas out of the oven, because of @NEStalgia's comment, something else came to mind: is what you experience a bit like that raw feeling that you can also get in that same spot, when you eat hard candy or certain kinds of spicy food? If so, then it might indeed have something to do with certain kinds of acidic additives.

And if that is the case, then you might wanna start reading the backs of the boxes and comparing ingredients with other brands. Might just be that others don't have that ingredient, or maybe in lower doses, making it less annoying at the very least.

@ThanosReXXX To my knowledge, there isn't a way to properly format text by using font size here. This is one of the few websites that I've had an account on that doesn't allow this.

The problem with putting my phone on vibrate is that I still have a tendency to want to check it right away; it's an experiment I've performed more than once. With my work, this breaks my immersion and makes it hard to plug back into what I was doing a lot of the time. I'm very easily distracted sometimes depending on my state of mind or what I'm working on.

@ThanosReXXX - I’m pretty sure frozen pizzas here are loaded with a nightmare concoction of preservatives and other poisons. It’s just... they’re so good. They’re a rare treat for me along the lines of fast food. The mouth burning is definitely because I get so excited to eat one that I can’t give it enough time to cool off from 425 degrees to a temperature safe for human consumption. Thus, the mouth sizzle. I absolutely know the weird sensation that you mentioned concerning acidic foods though. It’s a weird one.

@bimmy-lee Bether thiving through thienth!

@NEStalgia - Haha. The second to last Digiornio I got said “New & Improved formula” on the box. The last one said, “The original formula is BACK!” I just wondered what exactly is in the formula, and how much of it is Roundup, Draino, and wasp spray.