Two types of people in this world
 

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don't.

Or the two types are those who group people into two types and those who don't.

However, this poll is to see which of two types you are:

Paste eater or non paste eater?

Think kindergarten, first grade.

You know who you are.

it was minty? it just tasted like paste to me.

I never saw the attraction myself of the glue myself, but there was a small fad of putting straight pins through the top layer of skin on your finger.

Paste tasted salty to me though, similar to sucking on a seatbelt (which was also enjoyable at the time)

Did that. How about harnessing flies with human hair? {glue eater but never minty}

Spitballs, yes, paste, no.

Never ate paste.:headshake Used to put it on the palm of my hand and after it dried pick it off. :cool:

Paste, never. Matches, more often.

No paste eating here, although I had several first grade classmates who did. There was this one girl who would eat the paper off the Crayolas.

itsjulie, what you describe is something that I would do with overages of Elmer's Glue, but paste never dried quite the same way on your hands ... I liked making glue fingerprints.

Does anyone even make the old style of semi-solid paste with the plastic applicator? Admittedly I haven't gone looking for it in quite some while, but I don't recall seeing it recently. It's all glue stick this and glitter glue that these days. What kind of fun is glue with the glitter already mixed in??? You can't hardly make any kind of mess with that! It's all washable and guaranteed not to stain, dries clear?? Theres' no fun in a glue that dries clear! Sheesh. And hey, anybody seen a glass bottle of mucilage lately?

feh.

Kids these days. They don't know what they're missing. You try to tell them and they think you're crazy.

Perhaps my kids are exceptionally talented in this area :rolleyes: but they are quite capable of making a big mess with glitter glue. (Also, Play-doh has been banned from the house for 5 years, but that's another story.)

Must have been a big fad. It made it up to Maine, where I grew up.

We also took it a step further. We would take the straight pin and place it into the crook of our elbow with our arm extended, and then fold our arm up so the pin would poke into the loose folds of skin in the elbow. If you did it right, it looked like you were stabbing yourself bad with the pin, but the skin was all loose so it didn't actually puncture the skin.

We were stupid kids.

We would also lick the terminals of a fresh 9 volt battery. Somehow this happened to come up at a party a couple of years ago. A battery was found and passed around. It was amusing to see the reaction of the 9 volt battery virgins.

It's obviously a US thing - I thought you meant paste as in meat/ fish paste (pic attached in case you don't have that!)

The child-safe glue when I was growing up smelt strongly of rotten fish - enough to put anyone off eating it I assume. But we did put it on our hands & pretend to have a skin disease as we pulled it off.

Our fish and cows must be assembled better at the factory than yours. We don't need to repair them at home.

(I shouldn't mock other countries about their foods. We have deviled ham and peanut butter.)

Good lord, Sundae Girl. I'd sooner eat glue.

Never ate the paste. Our school was an Elmer's Glue kind of place. I liked smelling it and peeling it off my hands, but never wanted to eat it. Tried Play-Doh, but it was too salty and upset my stomach.

I liked the lemony tang of the Glue Stick.