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As a little kid I took the bad habit of biting my nails (I still do) so my parents brought home a specific product in a small bottle with brush containing a flu
by squarefoot 4y ago
As a little kid I took the bad habit of biting my nails (I still do) so my parents brought home a specific product in a small bottle with brush containing a fluid that once brushed over my nails should have discouraged me from biting them. It was really bitter, but turned out I actually liked it and kept biting:)
That was almost 50 years ago, so I guess the product was a different one.
- cheeze 4y agoAnd now you love Amaro, right!?
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoThis...is disturbingly accurate for my childhood and adult tastes. (Sibilia.)
- anigbrowl 4y agoSame thing happened to me. I didn't have a habit of it; I just used my teeth one time to pull a piece of torn fingernail that was catching on fabric, and my mother happened to see me and freaked out about it. I still remember the taste of the nail paint and wondering who decided that this should be a commercial product. Did your bottle have a picture of a traffic light on it?
- klyrs 4y agoOnce, I was driving and discovered that my thumb had this mesmerizing flavor that I just could not place. After a couple miles, I remembered that I had used my thumb to cover the opening of a windshield wiper fluid bottle. Took a look at the bottle, and discovered the Bitrex brand, and the source of this mystery flavor. Glad to hear I'm not alone!
- extraduder_ire 4y agoIt's barely related, but that reminds me of Dimethyl sulfoxide [0]. Which tastes like garlic, if you get it on your skin. As-in, it'll soak through your skin, and get you your tastebuds pretty quickly via your blood. It's pretty bad, because it'll take any substance you have on your skin with it on its way in. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfoxide
- XorNot 4y agoHuh, and now I know I was actually pretty good when using DMSO in the lab.
- EdwardDiego 4y agoWe used Bitrex for my oldest son when he was thumb sucking so much that he developed a callus that he still has fifteen years later. It didn't work, he just powered on through the taste.
- Auracle 4y agoApparently my parents used Tabasco sauce on me, though I doubt that would have worked if bitterant didn’t.