r/mildyinteresting • u/3st4spn • Jun 19 '26
humankind hiccups 😅 Tastebud came right off
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u/Both_Algae_3324 Jun 19 '26
I insist that you taste your taste bud
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u/Honest-Spring-5963 Jun 19 '26
Which flavor do you think will register?
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u/Silver-Marzipan7220 Jun 19 '26
Nothing since we taste our buds all the time
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u/AdOk5225 Jun 19 '26
Do you think if someone else tastes it it would taste different? Since they're only used to their own taste buds
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u/XevianLight Jun 19 '26
A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts
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u/Both_Algae_3324 Jun 19 '26
Everything he’s ever eaten all at once
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u/chisayne Jun 19 '26
Great movie
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u/Both_Algae_3324 Jun 19 '26
Maybe taste bud extraction from all the children Willy Wonka kidnapped was the secret ingredient to his everything gum
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u/Due-Box1690 Jun 20 '26
It's so small that you wouldn't be able to register anything but the instrument with which you picked it up
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u/cynuhstir1 Jun 19 '26
Im glad I'm not the only one who had this thought. I was immediately like "well you have to eat it"
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u/Nx_Vernxual Jun 19 '26
What the fuck
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u/Educational-Chain-80 Jun 19 '26
Took the words right out of my mouth
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u/SluttyMuffler Jun 19 '26
And the taste bud out of OPs.
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u/Lopsided_Tiger_0296 Jun 19 '26
Once I ate too many sour candies and a quarter top layer of my tongue fell off. Very smooth afterwards and it grew back
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u/bobbysmissing Jun 19 '26
What's the limit? 🤣
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u/Lopsided_Tiger_0296 Jun 20 '26
About a tin of icebreaker sours over two days
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u/Sheananigans379 Jun 20 '26
Those give me burns from the malic acid in them even if I have only 1. The first time I tried them I had 5 because I didn't know and I couldn't eat for 2 days.
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u/BeerJedi-1269 Jun 19 '26
Theyre called "lie bumps" transient lingual papillitis
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u/Robbiebny Jun 19 '26
I would like to see it under a microscope, please
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u/picabo123 Jun 19 '26
I saw a post of that the other day, I'm sure you do not want to see that! Tiny pink squishy spikes 🥴
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u/ShrlckHlmsBkrStr Jun 19 '26
I like seeing tiny pink squishy spikes
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u/Robbiebny Jun 19 '26
Imagine being able to run your fingers through them like a brush, a fleshy meaty brush
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u/FeuerSchneck Jun 19 '26
Not quite the same scale, but have you ever been licked by a cat? I imagine it would be very similar
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u/Robbiebny Jun 19 '26
Ugh yes and it actually hurts me when my cat does it
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u/FeuerSchneck Jun 19 '26
Yeah some are more sandpaper-y than others lol. My friend has a cat who licks like he's trying to rend flesh from bone.
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u/picabo123 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Cat tongues ars actually scary looking, in comparison the human tongue is just gross and maybe creepy
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u/FeuerSchneck Jun 19 '26
What, you don't like their little flesh hooks? 😸
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u/Warm-Excitement-9048 Jun 20 '26
TRADE OFFER
You lose: your taste buds
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u/sra66 Jun 20 '26
Let a lion lick you hand multiple times - they'll lick the flesh off of it.
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u/picabo123 Jun 19 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/ZNeyIrEzqE
I'm pretty sure the post I saw was a repost of this one or another
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u/3BikesInATrenchcoat Jun 20 '26
"Lie bumps (scientifically known as transient lingual papillitis) are small, painful red or white bumps that appear on the tongue. They happen when the tiny bumps on your tongue (papillae) become inflamed or irritated. They are temporary and typically clear up on their own within a few days."
I had to look it up bc I thought papillitis might be related to papillomavirus, but it's not an infection or disease, just an injury.
(papillitis and papillomavirus are definitely related linguistically, I'm guessing it's Latin for nub)
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u/Officerbeefsupreme Jun 19 '26
Glad I found the real answer I was thinking individual tastes buds were like microscopic
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u/PotentialConcert6249 Jun 19 '26
Can they happen on the underside of the tongue?
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u/BeerJedi-1269 Jun 20 '26
Idk im not a tongueologist
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u/astropelagic Jun 20 '26
As a bi woman I am fighting myself tooth and nail to not make a “but my girlfriend is one!” Joke here…
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u/failedabortedfetus Jun 20 '26
I literally thought you were joking until I googled. My whole childhood my mom would hear me lie about something and say “stick out your tongue and let me see” and when I did she would be like “NOPE! You’ve got lie bumps! You’re lying!” And I’d fall for it every time! I’m today years old when I find out they’re real!
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u/kammycakes Jun 19 '26
Hoptal
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u/Horror_Solution1945 Jun 19 '26
Hothpitul
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u/PurifiedUnity Jun 19 '26
Hothpithuthl
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u/NothingEffective5070 Jun 19 '26
Haojdkknzzlndlsl
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u/Dude_PK Jun 19 '26
Pregante?
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u/thegreatinsulto Jun 19 '26
Dangerops! Prangent sex. It will hurt bebe? Top of head?
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u/radraze2kx Jun 19 '26
Disgusting. What's the story?
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u/3st4spn Jun 19 '26
Idk. It felt like I had a splinter on the tip of my tongue. So I pulled on it, and this guy came off.
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u/radraze2kx Jun 19 '26
To shreds, you say? Can we see the tongue?
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u/Ram2145 Jun 19 '26
I sometimes have a taste bud that swells up for no reason. It can be a little painful, so I rip them off. Which is probably a stupid thing to do.
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u/SakuraTacos Jun 19 '26
I haven’t gotten them since I was a teen, I suspect it’s all the sour candies I ate as a kid. I used to bite them off which felt really good-painful, like pushing on a bruise
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u/Ram2145 Jun 19 '26
You know, I do eat an unhealthy amount of candy. I never realized that could be what’s causing the swollen buds. I should probably refrain from eating so much.
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u/SakuraTacos Jun 19 '26
Some things that I’ve read that cause them are spicy foods, acidic foods (like the citric acid in candy), and trauma to your tongue. So definitely try cutting back and also drinking lots of water after you eat something potentially irritating
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u/AphraelSelene Jun 20 '26
I (semi-ashamedly) admit that I have this as an anxiety tick/quirk/wtfever you wanna call it. I used to be WAY worse for it when I was younger but I still catch myself trying to evict them now and again
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u/newmannurse Jun 19 '26
Share us a photo of your tongue. 😛 is there a gaping hole in it?
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u/3st4spn Jun 19 '26
Tongue looks normal, sadly.
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u/Designer-Cicada3509 Jun 19 '26
You shlukd dm me a picture of your big toe as well
Im a Profesional doctor, trust me
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u/katy_0 Jun 19 '26
Look up burning mouth syndrome, it can be caused by a vitamin b deficiency. I had multiple strange symptoms that didn't seem connected. All my doctors ignored them or acted like I was a hypochondriac, then I read about burning mouth syndrome. I did more research into vitamin deficiencies. I started taking vitamin b & a generic multivitamin, and like magic a bunch of my problems were solved. I have always eaten a variety of healthy foods, so I think my body just doesn't absorb vitamins properly.
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u/Rocket_Lawn-Chair Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
If you put it in a tissue and place it under your pillow, the taste bud fairy will take it and leave a million doll hairs
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u/HawaiianCholo Jun 19 '26
It's a lie bump. I get em bad when I eat a ton of spicy food
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u/Barf-LoneStarr Jun 19 '26
Ok, wow. Now I understand what I've been experiencing in my mouth lately. I kept thinking I had a raspberry seed stuck on the back of my tongue.
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u/Pinkicies Jun 19 '26
Oh I’ve gotten them since I was a kid. I was one time irritated and similarly, bit off my lie bump 😬
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u/bubblegutts00 Jun 19 '26
I clip mine off when they are swollen and hurt. Instant relief.
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u/P2-NASTY Jun 20 '26
What are you talking about..? Why would your tongue get swollen and hurt and what in the world would possess you to clip it off??
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u/EverydayPoGo Jun 20 '26
This post and some comments are so confusing and scary to me 😭 didn't realize people have these kind of issues with their tongues
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u/lol_u_thug Jun 20 '26
Fr we want answers !!!! Ive never heard of any of this, I dont even trust to look this up. 😒
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u/shrimptoastee Jun 19 '26
Is this what they mean by taste buds change every few years???? Literally
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u/Anxious_Number_1097 Jun 19 '26
So I guess you're a bud light. I'll see myself out.
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u/Prestigious-Alps-728 Jun 19 '26
Is this actually possible? I kinda assumed tastebuds were smaller? I probably sound like an idiot right now, but I am confused and curious.
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u/KingNyx Jun 19 '26
Had a swollen tastebud once, while I was inspecting it I sneezed and yanked it off between my nails.
Was very satisfying to have the feeling of the swollen sore taste bud immediately being gone though.
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u/GimmieGummies Jun 20 '26
Both you, and the bj person over in the MildlyInfuriating sub are having a week 😬 Hope you heal quickly!
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u/_s_p_q_r_ Jun 20 '26
This happened to me when I was obsessed with Fun Dip as a kid. I had so many pouches. Eventually when I licked the white stick, it came away covered in blood and taste buds. I was done.
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u/xDeathRender Jun 19 '26
I had a taste bud that was raised for some reason around 19. Would mess with it for years pulled it out with tweezers and it actually grew back and was raised again!? Well one day on a ladder while I was messing with it using my weirdly sharp and fang like cuspid tooth I slipped on the ladder and went down a rung or two smashing my chin and biting straight through my tounge taste bud and all and ended up with a huge chunk out of the tip of my tongue. Now when it heals the taste bud it self won't heal correctly and occasionally opens, doctors think I accidentally caused an ulcer on my tounge, a fissure, or that the taste bud is an anomaly that'll never stop growing incorrectly. Basically the tounge is crazy.
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u/Demonic_Angel98 Jun 19 '26
What were you eating that made your taste bud quit like that O.o
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u/TommyTheEar Jun 19 '26
Hey this happened to me once when I was brushing my teeth. I was cleaning my tongue & it felt like I got cut with something. After the bleeding slowed down I could see a little bald spot lol
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u/Separate_South_2848 Jun 19 '26
People in the comments have me thinking this is not a universal experience
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u/littlemasoprincess Jun 19 '26
I come to realize I’m the weird one here
I chew one off one a month to squish it
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u/Effective-Ant1758 Jun 19 '26
One time as a kid, the whole top layer of my tongue peeled off. I was peeling off sections of it throughout the day. Freaked me out, to say the least. Didnt hurt or anything though, more like a later of dead skin(?)
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u/more-matcha-plz Jun 19 '26
When I was on Accutane when I was a teen I had an entire layer of my tongue peel off
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u/Happily-Incorrect Jun 19 '26
Which flavour have you lost? Eat all the foods and see which one you can't taste!
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u/Smugib Jun 19 '26
I actually did this with a tongue scraper while I was hitting the back of my tongue once. Is that what happened here?
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u/Mean_Cicada9142 Jun 19 '26 edited 23d ago
r/wtf is this way, this isn’t mildly interesting it’s nasty
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