Afraid of canned biscuits?

[RhondaS]

I was just reading over on the cooking board of mycoupons.com about chef Sara Moulton, on a recent cooking show, was completely unfamiliar with canned biscuits and appeared visibly shaken when the can "popped" open.

The comments afterwards were filled with posters professing to be scared of opening canned biscuits and how they get other family members to do it for them while they leave the room.

Just like I don't understand how people are deathly afraid of clowns, I cannot imagine being scared of a can of biscuits.

So, any of you afraid of the evil little dough ball containers?

 

[Pin Wizard]

Not with the container, but after buying Grands biscuits and seeing all the specks of FAT (lard or whatever the garbage is,) I no longer buy or eat biscuits!

 

[chell]

I would like to have seen Sara being afraid of them.

When they pop with lots of force I do jump, but I am not afraid of them. Clowns, now that is a whole 'nuther thing.

 

[FreshTressa]

Yup, I'm afraid of them. I probably got it from my mom. She used to make my dad do it in another room when I was young.

I do it, but I flinch every time. I am not sure WHAT I expect to pop out if that can!

 

[pumba]

when I open the can up......I did this last year and the can blew open in my hands.....and the inside of my hands where the thumb and the pointer meet was totally black and blue....it opened with that much force.....I make sure that I do it away from me and also my face.....I hate to think that it would bam me in my glasses

 

[Serena]

I know a couple people who are afraid of them. I'm not though.

 

[Disney845]

OMG!!! I honestly thought that I was the only person in the entire world who was "scared" of the biscuit cans. HaHa!!! I really hate to open them, it just always makes me jump. I will ask someone else to do it, or I peel a little of the cardboard type paper and toss the can on the table and hope it opens itself from the impact!!

I feel the same about popping balloons. You know some party games have people trying to sit on balloons and pop them...well that just freaks me out for some reason. I am not scared the biscut can or the balloon will actually "hurt" me...but still I hate the pop explosion.

 

[crazyforgoofy]

a little afraid of opening a biscuit or cinnamon roll or breakstick or whatever can.......... I don't like surprises and I'm never sure when the darned thing is going to actually POP! I jump like a fool each and every time. I'm so glad to know I'm not alone. Perhaps we should start a support group. I wonder how many steps there would be in the program............

 

[Lanshark]

My MIL is also afraid of opening canned biscuits. I had never heard of it before she told me about it this summer. I've know her 27 years and would have never guessed this deep, dark secret. Now I know why she always insisted on making home made biscuits.

 

[catsrule]

I give the can to DH to open. It makes me scream like a little girl.

 

[eeyore74]

I've never thought about it, but did you see the Mythbusters episode where they tested those things going off in a hot car?

Can't sleep... clowns will eat me...
can't sleep... clowns will eat me...
can't sleep... clowns will eat me...

 

[lulubelle]

How funny you discovered one of my strange fears. My DH & DD think I am wacko because I am soooo very afraid of canned biscuits. I cannot even tear the foil part back for fear that they will pop open. I rarely buy them because I am too frightened. Disney845, I feel the same way about balloons as you do. There are always those people (or kids) who think it is so cool to pop them. I cover my ears and leave the room asap! I also cannot open a bottle of champagne. I can't even really watch. Seriously, I wonder if they have a name for this type of phobia. I admit, I have whatever it is called...bigtime.

 

[phillybeth]

OMG I HATE those things, and so does my dad. We were dancing around the kitchen table on Thanksgiving, each trying to shame the other into doing it, calling each other names that fathers and daughters shouldn't call each other. My mother came in, picked up a spoon, opened the can, said "There, shut up already you babies!" and left. I'm so ashamed

I think it is the surprise of the POP that gets me. Some pop easy, some you reaaly have to work at, and every time it scares the bejeebus out of me.

 

[browneyes]

I am. I have to get my kids to open them for me.

 

[Dan Murphy]

 

[Margie J]

After having one can pop open on it's own I've been wary of them. Just peeling the outer wrapper off makes me wince.

Now, if they ever make Clown biscuits I'm running out of the store!

 

[RhondaS]

How about a clown chasing you with a can just ready to POP?!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Originally posted by Margie J
..........Now, if they ever make Clown biscuits I'm running out of the store!

http://www.meilleurduchef.com/cgi/mdc/l/en/boutique/produits/emporte_piece/mfr-tete_clown.html

 

[Margie J]

How about a clown chasing you with a can just ready to POP?!

Didn't they do that at Universal's HHN this year? There was one haunted house I didn't enter. It featured clowns and I thought I smelled fresh biscuits baking in the area.

 

[goofygirl]

Some people feel this way about uncorking champagne.

Neither bother me. I think popping the biscuit can and champagne cork is really cool.

I make the biscuits every Xmas, and when I make them this year, I'll think about this thread! LOL