'Worst' food you've been offered

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#1 Post by **TigerLily** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:48 pm

Yesterday..one of my staff offered me some chewing gum...
today, another offered me a lollipop..
then my husband came back from a business trip with the duty free present of the biggest bar of..... Toblerone!

Grrrr...!

#2 Post by **Luella** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:51 pm

Dude I would so melt the Toblerone over ice cream!!! Or let it melt on your tongue! The tiny little pieces of almond in there should be okay, right?

#3 Post by **TigerLily** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:05 pm

ROFL.

I must admit I did think I will melt it.

#4 Post by **ArchAngle** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:22 pm

The worst food so far for me (offered or not), decent Caesar salad. Wow, braces are like a magnet for it, biggest mess possible on the planet

#5 Post by **Tin Indian** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:27 pm

What is Toblerone?

#6 Post by **reckoner** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:53 pm

Tin Indian wrote:What is Toblerone?

The greatest chocolate in the world!

Ever since I got my braces on, I've been seeing corn on the cob EVERYWHERE. I was offered some just last week! I don't think anyone has ever offered me it before I had braces on, it's like they know...

I could probably cut it off the cob and eat it that way, but it's just not the same. Corn is going to be the very first food I have once the braces are gone.

#7 Post by **blindboarder2008** » Fri May 30, 2008 6:12 pm

ArchAngle wrote:The worst food so far for me (offered or not), decent Caesar salad. Wow, braces are like a magnet for it, biggest mess possible on the planet

omg i totally agree with you there. the salad likes to get stuck inbetween the wires and the ceaser dressing really doens't help that much, just seems to make it that much sticker and gooey. I love ceasar salad, I actually try and have salad or some sort of veggie for supper every night. Salad was really hard in the beginning and it was driving me crazy cuz i'm such a huge fan of salad. Now its a bit easier to eat it although its definetly a pain to clean up afterwards

#8 Post by **CactusZAF** » Fri May 30, 2008 11:01 pm

My Boss and one of my colleagues insist on buying biltong (beef jerky) and dried sausage (a traditional local delicacy for any occasion), and to make it worse they specially buy chillie bites for me. My ortho warned me not to eat these things when I got braced as they are really likely to dislodge brackets and are also the kind of thing that gets wedged in every which gap.

#9 Post by **Lisa65** » Sat May 31, 2008 5:09 am

My husband was going to the shop yesterday and I asked him to bring me back some chocolate as I hadn't had any for a while. He brought me back........a Snickers bar! About the worst thing possible, packed with forbidden peanuts and gooey toffee. I managed to eat it, but then spent 1/2 hour picking bits of peanut out of my wires and lumps of toffee from under my nance. The extensive clean-up job kind of spoiled any chocolate-related pleasure I might have had from eating it.

That'll teach me to go and get my own chocolate next time.

#10 Post by **crazybeautiful** » Sat May 31, 2008 6:24 am

A Boost bar. Good for my health though, that I can't eat them

#11 Post by **Audra** » Sat May 31, 2008 7:09 am

Oh no. I don't have my braces yet.

But I never thought about the caesar salad thing. Wow, I am SO glad I found this board.

#12 Post by **sksk11** » Sat May 31, 2008 8:43 am

Ditto the above! - I'm not in braces yet, but am hoping to be within the next 2-3 months, and I'm gutted about the amount of 'forbidden' foods there seem to be!

Firstly I have the biggest sweet tooth ever, so trying to steer clear of sweets etc is going to be very hard for me. I'm not too fussed about fizzy drinks though, so that's not so much of a problem.

Caramel, chewy things, corn on the cob - boo hoo hoo

I also think I will start with clear ligs just to get used to the look, but that means being cautious around curries etc, and I presume spaghetti bolognaise also carries the risk of staining ligs due to it's redness.

I'm trying to be philosophical about the whole thing - my grandma had diabetes, and now so does my mum, so it won't really do me any harm to cut back on my sugar intake.

#13 Post by **Miss Smiley** » Sat May 31, 2008 10:56 am

Corn on the cob is fine to eat just like meat off their bones, you just have to be careful. Don't go chomping away like you're a jack hammer or something. Eat slowly and bite gently. I like to eat my corn on the cob row by row and clean up is minimal. I like being offered caramel apples with toffee and chopped almonds drizzled in chocolate. Seriously, how am I supposed to bite into that?????? Cutting it up is not the same.

#14 Post by **TigerLily** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:24 am

Snickers..? Caramel apples...??

ROFL

I had a bit of the Toblerone in the end - just looking at it made my teeth hurt but I has a tiny bit using one corner of my mouth then moved across to my molars...but god it was so hard. It hurt.

#15 Post by **loulou123** » Sat May 31, 2008 11:45 am

Not that im necessary recommending it, but ive eaten most of that stuff in braces, some things are a HUGE pain to clean up after, but thats all.

Ive eaten snickers (mmm!) popcorn, toffee apples (tho i did cut those into chunks), gum etc.

Salad is a HUGE pain to clean up after, but you can eat it, and spaghetti bolognaise, lasagne etc can stain ligs, so the choice there is up to you.

Theres really nothing you cant eat as long as your careful