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TIFU by accidentally dumping 132 silica pearls into my dinner.

I quite frequently buy big packs of tofu skin. When the pack is almost finished I just dump the last bits into whatever I'm cooking while taking out the silica gel packet that always comes in the bag.

Meal done, I sit down to eat and in the first chew I felt a crack, as if I'd chomped down on a piece of sand. Inspected the food and quickly found a bunch of glass like pearls and realized the silica gel pack must've been broken.

I don't like wasting food and what I'd made was really deilicious. So instead of throwing it out and making something new I decided to search through the food as I was eating it (with chopsticks). I know silica isn't poisonous or harmful other than potential choking hazard for children. I figured it couldn't be that bad or take too long.

I managed to only get a couple more in my mouth which were easily discarded upon discovery. The rest were gently picked out of the wood with my superiour chop stick skills.

I counted them all after I was done eating and the result was 131 pearls. That's 132 with the first one I discovered and accidentally ate.

Instead of being a usual 5-10 minute mealtime this took about an hour and twenty minutes. Resulting in the most tedious meal of my life.

I will never just dump the bag out again and always check if a silica bag has been broken.

TL:DR: I spent over an hour picking silica gel pearls out of my food with chop sticks.

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