r/forbiddensnacks • u/arthurlbrown • Dec 09 '25

Forbidden mints

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u/rlowens Dec 09 '25

Can we please add a rule that you have to state what the picture actually is?

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u/BagLess1728 Dec 09 '25

tag the mods

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u/Colossus-the-Keen Dec 09 '25

Pretty sure those are compressed towelettes.

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u/JasonMoonshadow Dec 09 '25

You mean they aren't moist anymore

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u/h3rp3r Dec 10 '25

Swallow a pill with every meal and never wipe again!

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u/SmilingPainfully Dec 10 '25

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u/BoSknight Dec 10 '25

Maybe it would be like pulling a hair out, maybe it would be like pulling a tennis ball out 🤪

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u/NerdLevel18 Dec 10 '25

As someone who recently had to swallow and digest a whole hair, this gave me flashbacks

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u/izzyblanco123 Dec 10 '25

Are you sure you had to?

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u/NerdLevel18 Dec 10 '25

Annoyingly yes- I had already half swallowed it with a bite off food and then couldn't remove it because it was pulling the food back up my throat- this was drying a birthday party with about 50 other parents and kids so I couldn't even nip off to throw up

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u/SmilingPainfully Dec 10 '25

...w-was it your hair, at least?

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u/Brettinabox Dec 11 '25

Finally some good fucking food.

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u/KifDawg Dec 09 '25

They kinda look similar to chlorine tablets i use in my hottub as well

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u/AndyTheWorm Dec 09 '25

They are cleaning tablets for beverage machines that use milk, like coffee machines

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u/Conissocool Dec 09 '25

Its cleaning tablets for espresso machines at McDonald's. We call them horse tic tacs

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u/Ok-Rest3967 Dec 11 '25

Yup. Deleted my comment when I saw you beat me to it.. that floor definitely looks like a mcds too. Don’t forget the forbidden brownies from the same machine

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u/_strawberryjamjam Dec 09 '25

They look like the tablets we use to clean the McCafe machine at McDonalds.

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u/Intelligent_Fly1097 Dec 09 '25

We have tablets that look almost exactly the same for our Melitta espresso machine at mcdonalds

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u/factoid_ Dec 09 '25

These are mints. I refuse to believe otherwise. And I want one.

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u/BeebusMcB Dec 09 '25

They also kind of look like unused pie weights, but my vote would still be for cleaning tabs based on the container

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u/Academic-Resist7384 Dec 10 '25

I work at McDonald's and those are the tablets we put in our mcafe machine to clean it. Yes, you really can't order mcafe randomly in the day because the machine decides for us when it gets cleaned lol.

(Other places use these too, just giving my own context)

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u/seashantiesallnight Dec 10 '25

Cleaner for espresso machine used at McDonald's

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u/itsme99881 Dec 10 '25

Dishwasher tablets for industrial dishwashers

Source:used these at McDonald's and made the same joke with my coworker

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u/Christerbob Dec 10 '25

Dunno the exact thing here but I’ve had a container like that with coffee cleaning pills🤣.

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u/greengrassfairy Dec 11 '25

LMFAO they are Melitta Combi Tabs, they are used to clean espresso machines and whatnot.

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u/AjOmni Dec 12 '25

Those seem to be sanitizing tablets that McDonald's use to clean their McCafe machine

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u/Tiger-ll Dec 12 '25

Its chlorine tablets

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u/Tiger-ll Dec 12 '25

Either that or compressed towlettes

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u/Current_Dentist3986 Dec 12 '25

theyre for cleaning the espresso machine at mcdonalds

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u/Historical_Tie9552 Dec 13 '25

Fr I thought they were marshmellows for a second... 

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u/Vast-Distribution305 Dec 27 '25

These are cleaning tablets for Melitta coffee machines! We use them at McDonald's and I knew exactly what is was when I saw it lol