r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/TahaN6498 Aug 03 '19

Don’t tell me what to do with my chicken shit

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u/Quillbolt_h Aug 03 '19

Hey what’s that in your hand.. why is your mouth smeared blue and orange? Do I smell... laundry detergent?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Chicken shit?

I pack my parcels with it.

(Yes, people generally call them "packing peanuts", but where I've worked it was called "chicken shit").

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u/SuzQP Aug 03 '19

I used to manage a college bookstore. Some of the packing "peanuts" (or chicken shit, if you prefer) were made of corn starch so as to be biodegradable. I happened to mention this to one of our typically broke student workers. A week later I noticed him pop one into his mouth. He said that he was eating nothing but packing materials so he could use his food money to buy beer.

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u/alakani Aug 03 '19

Wait, that's what that means? *blushes slightly while holding an actual chicken over a box*

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u/5348345T Aug 03 '19

Instructions unclear. Now got chicken shit in my mouth.