I still do the peeling skin thing with glue. I remember the paste smelling minty, but couldn't fathom why my table mate ate it.

I remember mucilage and the red rubber tips that eventually cracked.

I wonder if the purple when wet and clear when dry glue sticks taste like grape and then don't taste like anything when they dry.

I ate paste, and matches. The most fun I had was sticking silly putty in my sisters hair.

I used to love doing the peely thing with Elmers glue! I wan't big on eating it though - I guess it never occured to me.

On the other hand, on many occasions I gave in to the temptation to taste a smelly sticker. It just *had* to taste good if it smelled so yummy.
Yech. Bitter, perfumey, papery nastyness was all I got..... every time.

Hehh... I never did any of these stuff (though some of my classmates did). I thought it was gross.

I sampled the play doh at one point, but like Noodle, found it to be too salty for my liking. Never sampled the glue. We had mostly mucilage. The stuff looked like snot. Who was going to eat that? YUCK! By the way, Wolf, mucilage can still be found in the book repair area in the back offices of your public library.

Yuk :crazy:

you could take the white, thick paste with the plastic applicator and make small balls of it, let it dry and presto!..desk candy. I wonder if anyone ever figured out how to stop the mucilage from leaking out in your bookbag?

never tried mucilage.....

With a name like mucilage, It's GOTTA suck. Sounded like some type of body fluid to me. But then.... I was a rather strange child.......

I always thought that the people who had too much fun with paste were the ones who ended up on Real Sex talking about liquid latex.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/wink.gif

BTW, at the Forks Halloween bash I spoke with a very interesting (and very attractive) woman who swore that whoever came up with colored cling wrap had to be a member of the bondage movement. Which just goes to show you, food item/arts and crafts tool/sex toy, it all depends on your point of view.http://www.cellar.org/images/smilies/smile.gif

I guess you gotta be a real Geezer to remember when every gradeschool classroom had a big ol' jar of paste for every couple of desks. It was actually a problem in our school, more of the paste got eaten than ended up on the papers it was meant for. Although I frequently saw classmates stick fingers into the paste and eat it, I never did it myself, after taking a taste once at somebody's urging I had no further interest. Maybe somebody else got "minty" paste, but back in North Carolina ours just tasted like flour and water, only slimier :sick:

GEEZER???
Whoa Nellie! I resemble that remark Tonchi. I'm jusst barely able to cop to middle age (assuming I make it to 90) now you wanna saddle me with geezerhood?

I dunno, what was YOUR score on the Geezer Test on that other thread? I read somewhere that nobody in high school today even knows there used to be only vinyl records. How does that make us feel? :rolleyes:

Now the flour-and-water papier-maché paste -- that smelled wonderful, somewhere between Play-doh and Cream of Wheat. But I don't think anybody in my third grade ate any.

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