The M&M’s in this vending machine have oddly disintegrated into dust.

There’s definitely bugs in that machine.

wonder why it’s that machine specifically and not the one beside it too

I think the other machine is skittles. So, no soft fatty chocolate that’s easy for bugs to get into.

I made the mistake of eating skittles from the machine in the break room at a grocery store I was working at. Those skittles were so fucking fossilized and I’m pretty sure they got to see a Tyrannosaurus rex back when it was still alive.

The other one is Skittles. Skittles don’t deteriorate, they fossilize.

I ate old skittles that were so hard I broke a tooth.

I would just replace the tooth with the same Skittle.

The Skittle has proven itself in battle.

Reminds me of the old Internet story of a guy who would smash MnMs together one by one in a bracket battle and send the last survivor/the strongest back to hershey for “breeding purposes”.

Didn’t we all do that as a kid? I did it with mike and ikes too. I liked pretending that they were space ships fighting and that i was some girly Galactus eating them

Yep! I used to do it with french fries as a kid. Push em together, end-to-end and devour the one that gets split in half. Means I saved the crispiest for last!

There was a guy who posted pictures of him doing this to r/funny years ago, while not the origin of the story it was one of the first times anyone actually documented such a competition. [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1x3d1a/the_great_mm_trials/)

I was there….. 3000 years ago.

I think about this story every time I eat M&Ms

taste the rainbow

And the enamel

that’s what the shell of a skittle is, enamel.

Now with 100 percent more crunch!

I ate a relatively fresh skittle and broke my tooth. 12 years later it had a root canal, two crowns and then had to be extracted. Having never had an extraction or really looked that much into it I assumed they just sliced down the side of the gum and pull it out and sew you back up. They deaden the area and i hear her say, get be the bigger pliers. She proceeds to just pull on it until it comes out, i nearly passed out from the pain. While I’m laying there questioning everything in my life that led me to that point i heard the assistant say, ‘wtf look how long the roots are! No wonder that wasn’t easy, probably was painful!’ I went home and found my wife gone, she called me from the hospital because her water broke, so i just drove on down there with a massive wad of gauze in my cheek. Ended up having one of the nurses provide more gauze, pain meds, and an iv of fluids. Was quite the day. Later i went back and told the dentist how barbaric that procedure was, like straight up medieval (verbatim), she was like it wasn’t that bad was it? I said doc, i haven’t been back in a year and it wasn’t because my insurance ran out. She felt bad i guess, ended up comping some of the later work they did and now i think they are afraid I’m going to Karen out on them, though i won’t lol

I like this story

Funny thing about it was i was on my third date with this girl when it happened. I told her i was so embarrassed i didn’t feel comfortable going out anymore. At that point, i figured what the hell do i have to lose and just said i really couldn’t afford it anyway. Turned out she couldn’t afford it either and we were both spending money we didn’t have to impress the other. Got my tooth fixed the next day and let’s just say we spent a lot more time at home after that. We’re married now lol

Your wife was pregnant ready to pop and you were on your third date with a different girl?

Are they talking about the earlier tooth breaking skittle incident here that was 12 years prior to the root canal and the baby?

Yeah, i re-read it like 4 times and i still don’t really see how it came across like the other comment. I said the tooth broke, then 12 years later the rest happened. Over the next 12 years i had the work done, culminating in the extraction on the day my son was born. Root canal happened the day after the break, first crown lasted about 3 years, the next lasted 7 or so.

wtf, sounds like amateur hour. Had to extract what was basically just a stump and roots left, my dentist had called in a specialist. A big Korean guy. I lay there as he numbs my jaw with some much sedative I can’t feel my nose anymore, he starts working the area with a tiny chisel like thing, he leans over me and tells me in broken english “root very difficult, but don’t worry, I’m very good at this”. I just sort of mumble “ok” as he goes to town with a set of tiny long pliers and a screw device that burrows into the root and lets him pull them out like that. It wasn’t very comfortable, especially feeling the jaw bone creak as he remorselessly tugged and pulled while holding my head down, but it sure was quick and effective, and on the actual pain scale it was really not very bad. He got the whole thing out clean. I got some pain meds and antibiotics and really had no pain at all after that.

> especially feeling the jaw bone creak as he remorselessly tugged and pulled while holding my head down I had a molar pulled and that sound was gnarly. I didn’t feel a thing because of the very liberal sedation, but hearing the cracking in my skull while a grown man is tugging away at my jaw with all his might was a very eerie experience. I can’t imagine how excruciating that must’ve been in the days before we had proper anaesthetics.

I absolutely believe this even with “fresh” ones.

I couldn’t say, but I speak from experience. I once spent four dollars in quarters on gumballs as a kid before I realized there was a bunch of dead bugs in the bag I was putting them into. I’ve been weary of getting from gumball machines ever since because you have no idea how fresh they are.

Were the gumballs still edible? I would just cleaned them with my shirt or on grass. I did one time bite a bug in half eating spinach. Who knew it had to be washed? I threw the sandwich away and just downed a beer.

Your comment made me think you were a lil kid until the very end