What the Hell Is This?

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Shegokigo

Shegokigo

So I'm sitting here, eating my daily little snack pack of beef jerky to keep me from being hungry all morning and I come across the little "square pack" that comes in all of the beef jerky packs I've ever bought. I finally thought to myself "what the hell is this for?" and was about to google it..... but where's the fun in that?

Halforum, YOU tell me, what is this packet in my beef jerky for? Why is it in every pack I buy, regardless of brand? Why does it say "DO NOT EAT" when it's clearly packaged WITH food that almost resembles it's shape? Why is the face on this brand's packet a child? Do children regularly eat beef jerky? Is that their target consumer? If so, why do they have an Indian on the cover?

SO MANY MYSTERIES! Halforum what say you?
 

It's used to keep the food fresh. Not sure how but that's what it's for. But I will have a detailed answer for you soon.
 

Update: This is a silicate used to absorb the moisture and keep the food fresh. It will harm you if you try and eat it.
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Edrondol said:
Update: This is a silicate used to absorb the moisture and keep the food fresh. It will harm you if you try and eat it.
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Some foods come with oxygen adsorbing packs as well, though I guess moisture is worse for beef jerky than oxygen.
 

This silica gel packet is found in just about everything you purchase, including dry foods, shoe boxes, electronics, cell phones, camera cases, cat litter, medicine bottles, etc. All silica gel does is absorb moisture. This helps keep your products fresh and free from moisture damage. Luckily Clear (white) Silica Gel is not harmful; it's non-toxic, non-flammable, and made from sodium silicate. Silica Gel is not "gel" at all; it actually is a solid and found in granular or bead form.

If that bag of Beef Jerky didn't fill you up and you were tempted by a bite of this Silica Gel, only to think better of it later, I bet you found yourself quite thirsty. You'd need to drink several glasses of water to help dilute, and most likely you will see no medical health effects. If for some reason you went back and decided to ingest a whole pile of Silica Gel, then I would suggest you get medical advice.

Now, there are apparently also desiccants that uses cobalt chloride, which will harm you. Best not to try them out to test.

-- Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:42 am --

Crap, forgot to cite. The above information is from http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... tml?cat=22

-- Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:52 am --

Even better is this wonderful site:

http://do-not-eat.com/

More than you'll want to know about them.
 

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. You gonna arrest me? Bomb bomb bomb bomb! During the war I was a BOMBadier!
 
S

SeraRelm

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2_yEp7-pE:2viuxog0][/youtube:2viuxog0]
 
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Laurelai

What the * Is This?

Bah- I hateses the TSA. I just got back in town and I had to fly. The freaking TSA took (and threw away) my toothpaste and tested my baby's baby bottle for 'splosives. I know 42 year old women with an 8 year old and a 6 month old in tow are high terror (terr'!) suspects though and so now I feel oh so much safer knowing that they took my toothpaste away before I could do anything dastardly with it. I think though what irritated me worse was that they tore the baby's car seat apart looking for BOMBS and they put it back together *just* enough so that it didn't look like it had been messed with it. It was only when I went to put her back in her seat (at 10:30 p.m. in the rain by my car) that I realized that the straps were all fuxored and the lining was all pulled out.
:eek:rly:

The Travel Safety Administration: Saving the world from good oral hygiene- one tube of toothpaste at a time.
 
Hylian

Hylian

figmentPez said:
Argh! Why can't I find a clip of the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight on Youtube?
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I think this is what you wanted or at least the episode that has what you wanted.



[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFpGtSwCPBs&feature=related:pz6qaw5p][/youtube:pz6qaw5p]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGrWkDOrJY:pz6qaw5p][/youtube:pz6qaw5p]
 
rac3r_x

rac3r_x

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Its a bomb, what're ya giving her a bomb for?!?

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIjBO26qjYM:1um4zb7j][/youtube:1um4zb7j]

And this one just because its about the funniest bit of genius every in a movie

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNeq2Utm0nU:1um4zb7j][/youtube:1um4zb7j]

BLASPHEMER!!
 
Jay

Jay

What the * Is This?

Eating silicone packs increases your reactive abilities by 32% and increases your kill/death ratio in TF2!
 

What the * Is This?

Laurelai said:

The Travel Safety Administration: Saving the world from good oral hygiene- one tube of toothpaste at a time.
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My diabetic grandmother had to have her hypodermic needles individually labeled with her prescription or else TSA would confiscate the needles. These needles, of course, can't even be felt when injecting the insulin. Also, my grandmother is 85 years old, hunched over, and needs a walker to get around. Yet she is a big enough threat to possibly deny her life-saving medication.


Also, the silica gel? It's not a bomb. People are just saying that to throw you off track.

It's really jerky seeds. Just take them and plant them into some dirt. Water them about once a week and in several months you will have your very own Jerky Plants. A few months after that, they will flower and you can pick the Jerky Fruit. Leave it out to dry for about another month and you will have the familiar Jerky that you are used to.
 
Fun Size

Fun Size

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GS is close. The packet actually contains the eggs of jerky beasts, the animal that jerky comes from. If you eat the packet, the eggs will embed themselves in your colon, where they will eventually hatch and escape from your body through the most obvious place.

It isn't pretty (they look like a cross between the Alien and a very taught, tanned Wayne Newton), and is especially painful for those who eat that spicy jerky. :eek:
 
Calleja

Calleja

They're all the crushed remains of Jimmy Hoffa. Collect enough and you'd be able to reconstruct him. No one knows this and they just throw them away, though, which is why no one's ever found the body.
 
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cvgurau

Edrondol said:
If for some reason you went back and decided to ingest a whole pile of Silica Gel, then I would suggest you get medical advice.
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Twice. Medical advice for ingesting a whole pile of Silica Gel, and psychological advice for going back and deciding to ingest a whole pile of Silica Gel.


Or, better yet, stand there and let the Silica Gel suck all the moisture out of you; a slow, painful death is the only fate befitting an idiot who decides to ingest a whole pile of Silica Gel. :eek:rly:
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

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SeriousJay said:
Eating silicone packs increases your reactive abilities by 32% and increases your kill/death ratio in TF2!
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*swallows the packet without hesitation*
Oh, you said TF2.... well that's fine too I suppose.

General Specific said:
Also, the silica gel? It's not a bomb. People are just saying that to throw you off track.

It's really jerky seeds. Just take them and plant them into some dirt. Water them about once a week and in several months you will have your very own Jerky Plants. A few months after that, they will flower and you can pick the Jerky Fruit. Leave it out to dry for about another month and you will have the familiar Jerky that you are used to.
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*takes another few packets and heads outside*

Fun Size said:
GS is close. The packet actually contains the eggs of jerky beasts, the animal that jerky comes from. If you eat the packet, the eggs will embed themselves in your colon, where they will eventually hatch and escape from your body through the most obvious place.

It isn't pretty (they look like a cross between the Alien and a very taught, tanned Wayne Newton), and is especially painful for those who eat that spicy jerky. :eek:
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:eek:
*looks at the package* "Tabasco HOT!" :bush:
drawn_inward said:
It's an after-jerky breath freshener. :slywink:
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What exactly are you trying to imply? :devil:
Calleja said:
They're all the crushed remains of Jimmy Hoffa. Collect enough and you'd be able to reconstruct him. No one knows this and they just throw them away, though, which is why no one's ever found the body.
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*continues chewing happily*
cvgurau said:
Or, better yet, stand there and let the Silica Gel suck all the moisture out of you; a slow, painful death is the only fate befitting an idiot who decides to ingest a whole pile of Silica Gel. :eek:rly:
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But all the wonderful side-effects! :tear:
 
@Li3n

@Li3n

Shegokigo said:
Why is the face on this brand's packet a child? Do children regularly eat beef jerky? Is that their target consumer? If so, why do they have an Indian on the cover?
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what did u think beef jerky was made out of?!
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

@Li3n said:
Shegokigo said:
Why is the face on this brand's packet a child? Do children regularly eat beef jerky? Is that their target consumer? If so, why do they have an Indian on the cover?
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what did u think beef jerky was made out of?!
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*opens a new snack pack of "Fresh and Tender" jerky with a gleeful grin* :twisted:
 
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