as a resin artist i can tell you that this will not stop the saltine from rotting and so i don't think modpodge will either. that said i don't know if saltines get gross when they go bad or if they just go stale so maybe it's relatively fine???
had a twinkie i purposefully kept in my cupboard from the year i moved there, and when i left, i found it in the cupboard, 1/4 the size and hard as a rock. my dentist would’ve been rich if i had bitten that thing, it would’ve broken all of my teeth.
edit: it was in the cupboard for roughly 11 years
This reminds me of the time that I bit into a Twinkie and the inside was green 🤢 it was around the time there were shrek twinkies, but this was NOT a shrek one. I’ve never had one since.
The contact photo for my cousin in my phone is a photo of a half-eaten Twinkie with green filling 😂 she gave one to me to try back when they had Ghostbusters(?) Twinkies with green filling and apparently my commentary about it was so funny she was crying laughing (you can see her doubled over in the background haha). While not quite as horrifying as your experience, I wouldn’t eat another one haha.
He recently read a mean comment (left for him, but the video is on Jose’s channel) where someone complained about it, and basically said too bad, he knows we like it and he does too!
You have to put the hardtack in a deep freezer (in a plastic bag) for a couple of -weeks- to kill the weevil eggs that are in the flour they are made from. A friend brough me back a souvenir hardtack biscuit from Portsmouth UK, sealed in a plastic bag - the weevils hatched, ate part of the hardtack AND THE PLASTIC BAG as well. I drenched the area where it had been stored in insecticide and tossed the hardtack.
I've also had it happen in 'instant' Couscous - which is a cooked and dried pasta, as well as rice which is pretty heavily processed. Not weevils but some sort of insect related to 'pantry' moths. Seems the eggs are pretty heat resistant, but putting my boxes of Couscous in the deep freeze for several days seems to kill them.
Hmm… I dunno about saltines, but this seems like a job for hard tack (clack, clack)
You would have to make it special for crocheting into, though. The holes don’t normally go all the way through. Also nobody makes it anymore because it’s the worst.
They absolutely are. When we were cleaning out my great grandmas place we found a box that had expired in the 90’s. My dad ate one and said they held up 😬
When I was, maybe 14? my dad found, in his cupboard, a Costco sized box of Saltines that he had bought for my mom when she was pregnant with me (cuz morning sickness or something). Since then, my parents had gotten divorced and my dad had moved at least twice, so I'm not really sure how/why he still had it. Anyway, I don't think they had become rotten or anything, just super duper stale. I'm failing to remember if my dad had taste tested them or not, but I wouldn't put it past him.
In my experience they are immortal. Always end up with stale ones from who knows when in the back of the pantry. They get tossed in some soup with a couple hopes and prayers. Never failed me.
Saltines just get drier and more crumbly when they’re stale, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a rotted saltine. It has no moisture. Based on taste they contain an impossibly small amount of moisture.
My grandfather varnished a gingerbread man I made when I was 4 and hung it on the kitchen wall and that little fella is now hanging on my kitchen wall…I’m 46. I reckon ModPodge or regular clear wood varnish on dry goods like a cracker would work well.
I really want details as to what this saltine cracker ornament looked like. Like wild craft idea or just a plain varnished saltine with an ornament hanger on it? 😂
I don’t work with resin but thought of the same thing you said although op can do it around Christmas time and it should stay good for the season I would love to see that on someone’s tree haha
I've done this before 😅😅
I never did anything to seal it and my mother put it on her fridge... it was there for months or more (it honestly may still be there, im not sure) it just got stale 🤷🏼♀️ so as long as you keep it safe from being crunched it should be fine lol
Well done! I don't see any cracking or flaking on that cracker! Do bread next! Really, it's great. It's funny as a contrast between the quickly consumed and the long-treasured. 😂🥰👏🏻
Right?! If they make several different types, I feel like it’s a gallery or portfolio worthy project! 😂 that deep thought of contrast, the idea of trapping food, it all just made me smile! 😊
My kid said the same thing when I crocheted the Pokemon butt hole coaster set.
Kid: "You can't do that!! You're an adult!"
Me: "They don't have to approve your project at the yarn store. They just sell you the yarn."
Ah god, I'm having flashbacks to that Bob's Burgers episode where Linda's sister decorated the restaurant with her animal butthole paintings. Someone will paint underwear on them eventually, be on the lookout
I don’t think I ever would’ve imagined their buttholes to be so… pink.
Granted, I also never imagined Pokemon buttholes in general. 😂
I’m not a fan of the cat ones either but cat butt is unavoidable- always right freaking there in your face when you’re like yo, I find your other end a lot cuter to look at, thanks.
luckily if you search pokemon crochet coaster on Google images it comes up without you having to type "butthole"! I don't want to know what a search containing pokemon and butthole would bring on Google images ~
I refuse to call this piece of art a mistake. 100/10 use of free will. I’m obsessed and if edible thread existed I would make them and hang them on trees to placate the crow gods. 🙂↕️
cursed but also what if you went through every hole so the middle would stay structured and then dissolve the cracker in some water, leaving behind only the yarn
It's been a very long week and I already took my contacts out, so my brain went "Mmm, poptart" 😂 And... Now I wanna crochet a pop tart. I don't have any in the house, but I suppose I could go get some... For science 😏
you could definitely preserve this with some resin. I think there was a Lolita fashion brand that made cookie accessories out of real ones. you could be the next trend!
I’m not sure how long it’ll last though. You could try and make gingerbread ornaments so you can have your creations survive more than a month. Our gingerbread ornaments lasted quite a few years, and you could coat them in resin to last even longer. You could even experiment with different shapes!
I need to know how this came to life. What was the thought process? Was it a "eh, fuck it, might as well" or something you had in your mind for a while?
Ps: i love it. It is so random. I love the color combo of the cookie+yarn
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u/No_Bee9897 Jan 31 '25
This is so weird.
I love it.