Eating Anecdotes....How Funny Is Your's?

[mottsrods]

Ok, I'm starting this post because of my own stupidity and laughter at myself......I would like to hear some of your eating anecdotes and if you have had a good 'knee slapper' at yourself as I have.

...........To start, I absolutely love Hot Wings.....and I havn't had any since my brace day for fear of something happening in public............Guess What!!!!! I finally had to have some, and it did happen.

Now, the way I eat hot wings.....I put the entire thing in my mouth, bite and roll it around to get all of the meat off of it, then pull it out sans everything but bone and grissle. Whallaaahhhh!!!!! NOT!! As I rolled it around to one side of my mouth, it got stuck to my brackets. I panicked bigtime. So I've got this thing stuck to the side of my mouth and sticking out for everyone to see.....by the way, my wife almost in tears from laughing so hard, and me freaking out wondering how I'm gonna get the da*? thing outta my mouth. So I start with my fingers trying to pry, then that didn't seem to be working fast enough, so I resorted to a butter knife. Finally I got it out and went to the bathroom to inspect the damage...I had none, but had enough meat and wing in my braces to dig and pluck out. I then returned to my wife and proceeded to laugh until so hard at myself that I did cry.....So, No More Wings.........or at least not until the torture devices in my mouth are removed.......

Mott

[LanShark]

I don't so much have a misadventure in eating, as I read the disclaimers that said you basically can't bite into anything but have to cut it into small pieces.

But, I have noticed that if I eat something and don't brush right away, if I'm still hungry I could have a snack from what's left in the braces.

If it weren't for the Waterpik, I'd be sunk.

- Bill

[dugsmom]

Mottsrod, I wish I was there to see that one! haha

My little misadventure is nothing compared to yours but the other day we were out house hunting and stopped at an open house. Before we went in, I stuck a few pieces of gum in my mouth (big mistake). One thing I hate about chewing gum now that I am braced is that it always seems to get stuck to the hooks on the brackets especially my molar hooks. So there I was chewing away when the agent came up to me and started asking questions. Well a part of the gum (I had a huge chunk of gum in my mouth) got stuck to my molar hook and the other half got stuck to the roof of my mouth so when I opened my mouth to answer all that came out was this horrible gurgle sound.
The agent, my husband and son just kinda stood there in shock staring at me. Before I could say anything more I had to untangle the gum from my brackets (tried to do it with my tongue but that didn't work so I had to stick my hand in mouth and pull on the gum)...it was quite embarrassing. the worst part was they (agent, hubby and son) thought it was hilarious (after they realized what had caused me to gurgle loudly) and had a good laugh.


LanShark- THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO ME!!! Especially when I eat rice...sometimes I'll be talking and all of a sudden there's some rice floating around in there.

Jessica

[¤sabrina¤]

i havent had any mishaps in public other than constantly having a napkin to my mouth as food leaks out the corners
and stuff gets stuck in the brackets

if u wanna eat wings, shred them first! i guess u wont be popping them in whole again

[Pixel Witch]

I do pretty well eating sushi with braces - took a few tries but I can eat it like champ without getting any rice stuck.

However, last time I went I had some Mochi ice cream for the first time since being braced and without thinking, I popped an entire ball in my mouth and it FUSED TO MY QUAD HELIX (for those who have never had it, its basically like this ice cream with a thin gummylike candy coating. YUM)

So I am sitting there with this freezing ball in my mouth and I CANNOT get the outer shell OFF of my expander. My teeth are aching from the cold and I can't talk because this huge thing is in my mouth and my friends are dying laughing because i have to pretty much jam both hands in my mouth to disengage the darn thing. So now I have pink ice cream running down my face and hands at the sushi bar and have to run to the bathroom to clean up.

I cut the rest of them into quarters

[Dutch]

I'm glad to see others have the same problems. I always have the napkin in front of my mouth when I am eating just in case but do any of you find your self drolling on your self when you are talking to someone?

[PARR]

I love greens of all kinds: cooked with pork or sausage, cooked in a curry, cooked with fish or chicken in a soup or stew...kale collards spinach escarole whatever...I crave it and go for it. You can imagine the rest. Chef has an expander/maintainer on the roof of his mouth and he is hilarious to watch carefully cutting everything into minuscule bites.

Neither one of us has had major issues in or out except the first week trying to eat pizza. A local teen came over and showed us how to do it side of mouth. Very funny!

[insinu8]

Pixel,

Yah, I've had a bunch of trouble with largish stuff getting caught up in my quads as well. Nothing quite like your ice cream + gummy tho! I had a close encounter with an ice cream sandwich.

Haven't drooled on myself yet, but my newly braced g/f nearly does from time to time. She makes this hilarious face while she makes this loud sucking sound, trying to prevent the droolage. So far, not a drop

I'm sure she's waiting to laugh at me when I do the same thing in about a month.

[purpleteeth]

Eating pasta is a total mess for me. I usually end up swallowing it whole or it just gets wrapped around my brackets. My bite is so messed up that I usually can't chew it, so I start to swallow it and then I choke and I spit and the pasta goes everywhere! I just can't seem to CHEW PASTA, so I have to limit it... especially Ramen Noodles, which is what I used to eat when the money was low (now I am sticking to the oatmeal and sugar).

[thesallymonster]

If I open my mouth a bit too wide, my Herbst Appliance will either come apart or get stuck. Occasionally when I'm biting into a sandwich or burger (yes, I'm know I'm not supposed to. . .) or opening my mouth wide to eat a spoonful of food my Herbst will stick and my mouth gets stuck open!

Sometimes this happens after I've already put the food in my mouth and tried to bite it . . . so my mouth is stuck open with food in it, and I have to reach in with my fingers to unstick my Herbst. Sometimes the food even falls out of my mouth in the process! It's totally disgusting and embarrassing! Luckily over the past several months since getting my Herbst I've learned to only open my mouth a little bit when eating and I've gotten a bit used to that.

And I just found I get my Herbst out in August, thank God!