I went years not eating these because of the terror and anxiety of having to open one. And one day by chance (dropped it in the sink that had water in it.) I found the secret to not getting the piss scared out of you.

Here it is. These cans are cardboard. Cardboard disintegrates in water.

If you peel back just a little of the paper. And sit it in a bowl, Make sure the side you peeled is facing down. and pour in a little water.

Then quickly leave the room or put it in your fridge or something. And in a minute or two it will pop open. And you will hear it from a safe distance. And you will be okay.

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[–] 8 points 14 hours ago

I always enjoyed opening them as a kid. The pop was just as satisfying as a jack in the box, plus in a few minutes there'd be hot biscuits.

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  • [–] 9 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

    Why? You just peel it a lil and give it a tiny tap it and it goes "pufffff". Much satisfy.

    I will happy open all of yours for you. I'm also immune to onions, so I will cut them if I get some of what you're making

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    I peel a little and then dig my thumb into the seam. I used to use a spoon, but it was too unpredictable. I used to be afraid that it would somehow hurt my thumb, but it just pops with a little poof of air and some noise. It was a hard fear to overcome, but fuck those biscuit cans, I'll bite them bitches open now! (Not really bite though, that's too much)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    I applaud your tenacity to defeat the biscuit terror.

    I know it's a stupid fear. I know it's illogical. The can can't hurt me. Yet....

    It's like that puff of air at the eye doctor they use to check eye pressure.

    I know it won't hurt me. Yet I often blink (another reflex) and they have to do it more than once.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 hours ago

    Oh I know exactly where you're coming from, and it's not a stupid fear (to me at least). It seems to be quite common; some of us are just a little more sensitive of those fears or think about it more?

    It's my own personal thing to stare at the things that scare me. I fucking hate being scared of the dark

    Story Time: I was a toddler and my parents took me to a fireworks show. I had an absolute meltdown as they tried to get me out of the car, because the explosions scared the shit out of me. They pretended they would leave me in the car, and I didn't give a fuck, I was scared and would happily stay there. So they pulled me out and carried me into the bleachers so we could watch (it's supposed to be fun)

    So I sat at the show, and I had my hands clamped against my ears, trying to escape the noise. My dad pried my hands off of my ears as fireworks were exploding.... and I absolutely loved how loud and bright it was. The scary booms became delightful, and I loved it. It still sticks with me, how much I was about to miss because it was scary to me (and loud)

    Though it does sound like my dad was being a dick (cause it was assholish)... I'm glad he got me to take a look that night, through hell or high water. It's helped me to sit with a lot of "loud noises" throughout my life

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  • [–] 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

    If you absolutely must buy packaged biscuits, buy the bagged, frozen Walmart brand and thank me later. Bonus: no PTSD, aside from being vastly superior.

    Sincerely,

    A southerner who's eaten my share of biscuits.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I had to have a bunch of hardware installed in my hand after being involved in a workplace accident involving an explosion caused by compressed air.

    I didn't think it left anything but a physical mark until I opened a biscuit tin a couple months after recovery.....Took about a year until opening crescent rolls and biscuit containers didn't tickle the big PTSD nerve.

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  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    You just smack it on the edge of the counter. What the fuck?

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

    It's actually called the startle reflex.

    A lack of the startle reflex can be indicative of neurological problems. So it's a pretty good feature to have.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startle_response

    However, like many reflexes, it can be over-ridden with effort.

    Being ready for a response can often help negate a startle reflex.

    However, I am unable to do that for these fucking canned biscuits! Although I can for other loud sounds.

    I think it's because I can't perfectly predict when it will happen.

    Years of trauma will not allow me to try breaking the can on the counter. Which would be a way to perfectly predict the sound. But I've been fearful of the biscuits for too long.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    People with cptsd have a sensitive reflex. A lot of us people with autism have cPTSD.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Might make such people more prone to being bothered by them.

    But anyone can be bothered by these damn biscuits.

    Being startled by canned biscuits popping is not a diagnostic criteria for autism or PTSD.

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  • [–] 3 points 21 hours ago

    That's why we Germans call them "Knack & Back". (Pop and bake could be the English equivalent)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    The problem I have with those isn't the pop (though that was startling at first), its that every single one ive tried has entirely the wrong taste and texture for biscuits. Especially the taste, those always seem to taste so sweet at to be almost like cake, when, to me at least, biscuits should not be sweet at all unless jam or honey has been put on them.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago (11 children)

    Huh? If you remove the paper, just karate chop the can and it'll pop, and it won't scare you because it'll be direct feedback from hitting it. You don't just have to wait for it to go on its own lol

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    [–] 15 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Would you like to play a game?

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    [–] 10 points 1 day ago* (6 children)

    I fucking hate these things. Back in the day, you used a spoon and knew when it would pop. Who the fuck decided my biscuits should include a jump scare? Fuck whichever designer made me afraid of biscuits.

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    I love grabbing the ripcord like a safety pin and letting it go off like an adorable little gernard.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I have no idea what the thing on the right is. Never saw it around here in europe.

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