Kids, do not try this at home.
A few years ago, a slew of Internet memes labeling Tide Pods a"forbidden food" for their Gusher-like look led to the unfortunate and concerningAnyways, Tide Pods weren't the first time ill-informed, not-understanding-consequences kids put something questionable in their mouths.
"A family friend, when she was little, drank Drano. Thirty-some years later, she needed to have surgery because the scar tissue in her esophagus made it almost impossible for her to eat. She had had so many surgeries before that she has a high tolerance to most painkillers." "My great-grandma was very poor when she came to America and ended up eating some rancid meat to survive and got worms. They plagued her and she became depressed and malnourished. She felt she was going to die from the worms, so she decided to end her life by drinking rat poison. Lucky for her , it was the perfect amount of rat poison because the worms ate it and died, getting rid of the problem and making her suicide attempt unsuccessful.
"When I was a kid some batteries 'exploded' in a toy I hadn't used in ages, so there was this strange liquidy stuff around the batteries and all in the battery compartment. Yup, I licked it all up. Still no idea what the hell it was." "I ate that blue powdered Miracle Grow fertilizer stuff when I was young. I mean, it's bright blue; I thought it was candy!"
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