Autism.

I honestly had no idea people used any method other than this (except banging it on the edge of the counter)

if you remove the paper

Usually they pop while peeling them. Even the ones that say to use a spoon after peeling. I did one tube the proper way and felt so confident going into the second tube which immediately exploded. Never trust the tube

I've always loved karate chopping them open, and yeah, giving a big ole "hiiii-yaaa!" basically fixed the jump scare.

I always wanted to take this and Operation apart to find a way of combining them to make the "punishment" of failing Perfection more intense. I never had Operation and thought it actually shocked you.

Omg.

No. I would not.

eyelid twitches

Yeah I think technically you are still supposed to use the spoon. But sometimes it would pop before you tried the spoon.

I just use water now and run into the other room to hide.

Your "back in the day" was after these had been around for a decade and they started doing the spoon thing to open them. They started out as little grandes.

Yeah they definitely have added sugar

Yeah, it's carbs on carbs, no nutrients or fiber to be found. They're really dangerous, I don't allow myself to cook them because I'd probably eat the whole tube in one sitting

These were great when I was a kid. Same with the cinnamon rolls. I didn't know how good real biscuits were.

Got one on a whim a while back and it was beyond disgusting. Tasted like what a machine thinks a picture of a cinnamon roll might taste like.

So if you peel it too much it will sometimes pop while peeling.

If you don't peel it enough and wack it on the counter, it won't pop. So then you try peeling it again.

Sometimes that will make it pop. Sometimes not.

It's the unpredictability of the damn things.

I absolutely love opening them. You never know if it will do a big pop or a little pfft. Nice little surprise.

My wife sometimes buys it and forgets to tell me and about 3-4 hrs later a resounding pop will emit from the shopping bag.

It's premade dough that cooks into biscuits. But not the cookie sweet kind.

American biscuits which are mostly just butter and flour. They are pretty good fresh. Like muffins but get dry and stale fast. Like muffins.

Part of the prep (if you are making home made,) is rolling the dough out and layering/folding it over and over.

So the biscuits pull apart easily. Like in the direction of hamburger buns. Making it easy to turn them into little breakfast sandwiches.

Where I'm from, in the Midwest, it's very popular to eat them with sausage gravy. Just the biscuits and gravy. Nothing else.

Used to be cheap to make at home and even cheap at restaurants.

A lot of (all?) 24 hr tuck stop restersunts serve them. So it's also popular with drunk people at 3 am.

(Truck stop restaurants are usually small dinners attached to gas stations. Usually outside city limits. That are open 24 hrs to serve truckers. But also popular with night people. Sometimes they even have showers. )

Imagine bread dough, but it's more like a slightly pressurized paste in a cardboard tube

I'm pretty sure most Europeans would burn you at the stake for crimes against bread

I remember reading a story about someone that called 911 from their car thinking they had been shot and their brain was leaking out. Turned out some biscuits had violently popped, threw one at the back of their head, and when it hit they instinctively grabbed for it, and were holding the biscuit against their head, convinced it was their brain matter.

It was purported as true at the time, but I have a lot of doubts -- probably just one of the many urban legends that got passed around last century.

When my mom was a kid, the house next door exploded from a gas leak. Killed everyone inside and her trauma from that made her have to leave the room when I, the assigned can popper, popped one of these open. Same with balloons, anything with a loud, sudden noise.

PTSD is real, yo. That shit lasts a whole lifetime.

I know from personal experience that if you have ever been injured by an explosion, these do tend to be a little spicy to open for a while. Didn't know I even had PTSD from my accident until I was suddenly made aware via biscuit tin months after my recovery.

I don't like baking. And making anything with flour is a huge mess. Because I'm a messy bitch and that's what what.

I don't think I knew these existed. Thanks 👍

You know what. I remember this one too. The box was tin right ?

Idk if it was mine or a cousin but I do remember playing with one. And trying to figure out how to predict the pop out based on song or tension of the arm but I don't think I ever figured it out.

Sorcery.

I don't possess your bravery.

😭

My problem was always that I don't need eight fucking croissant rolls at one time. And those things are inedible except when they're fresh out of the oven. One of the grocery stores near me briefly sold half-sized tubes of them which was great, but the price was higher than the regular size.

I know a lot of people that don't buy them for this reason.

There has to be a better way.