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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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
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.
I don't think I knew these existed. Thanks 👍
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.
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.
You just smack it on the edge of the counter. What the fuck?
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.
You've got to tap them ... It's a sensory delight
I've never once not tapped them, it sounds horrible
People with cptsd have a sensitive reflex. A lot of us people with autism have cPTSD.
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.
But it would be very convenient to have such an easy and cheap test. Getting diagnosed is a hassle and not cheap over here.
That's why we Germans call them "Knack & Back". (Pop and bake could be the English equivalent)
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.
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.
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
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
I've always loved karate chopping them open, and yeah, giving a big ole "hiiii-yaaa!" basically fixed the jump scare.
Would you like to play a game?

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.
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.
I love grabbing the ripcord like a safety pin and letting it go off like an adorable little gernard.
I have no idea what the thing on the right is. Never saw it around here in europe.
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
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