Puncturing air tight meat packages in supermarkets. Did anyone else used to do this?

[ManonBlackbeak]

I know this is really odd, but when I was a young child and I'd go to the supermarket with my DM I had this thing where I'd stick my finger nails into the airtight packets of meat until they burst. I'd do it to all kinds of meat and sometimes sausages or fish as well. I found it really satisfying, kind of like when you pop bubble wrap.. my DM never knew that I did this and would quite rightfully have hit the roof if she found out.

As an adult I'm horrified though. I mean I was making perfectly decent pieces of meat inediable. Some poor sod will have picked up those packets of meat, and when going to prepare a meal found them to be rancid.

Did anyond else ever do this? Is it a thing?

No! That's awful!

Not a thing! Weird.

I stuck my thumb in a Tunnock's snowball in the Co-op when I was about 5.

I know it's weird, and yet Ive no idea why I did it?

No. How strange.

Not meat but on packets of bottled water. Id poke holes in the plastic between the bottle tops. No idea why

I used to shake the bottles of bath stuff that were 2 types in one bottle

Not with meat, but packets like mushrooms and also with multipacks of drinks.

I had completely forgotten I did this until my son recently tried to put his finger through some mushrooms in a shop and remebered how much I enjoyed it as a child.

No, but I used to weigh grapes, but the sticker on and then fill the bag up more.

In the days of stickers I used to change the sticker prices to something cheaper.

So more of a common thief than a vandal.

It took me ages to understand what you meant! I can see that would be quite satisfying. You were a small kid, don’t beat yourself up. If anything blame your parents for not noticing

Ds loves to do this. (Obviously I don't let him). Drives me fucking mad. You should see what he does to toilet and kitchen roll packs. 😡

My brother and I unzipped all the beanbags in MFI while bored. We were little shits.

Didn't make actual holes but I know what you mean OP, in fact, randomly, we were only talking about this in the office this afternoon.. several people in the office said when they were kids they like to poke the meat in supermarkets, it just felt nice!

Anyone remember when people didn't wallpaper into a corner and there was a curve in the paper? Couldn't resist popping that!

My brother and I unzipped all the beanbags in MFI while bored

Fuck

happystory I got very harshly told off for doing that in our newly papered sitting room! It was too tempting not to though.

Yes I did this!!! They use to be more cling film than shrink wrap and my finger would pop right through. Me and my brother dared each other.

I used to fold the leaves on my gran's spider plant until they cracked.

I used to poke the meat so that the blood would swish about between the polystyrene and clingfilm, would never break them but still got told off!

No.

But when dd was little she bolted for the stand of pick and mix buckets/tubs in the village co-op and started climbing up it using the buckets like steps. The whole thing collapsed and was beyond repair.

15 years on and it's never been replaced. I blame dd for the fact we are living in a pick and mix free zone

I used to love to stick my nails in the anaglypta wallpaper

I picked all woodchip off our wallpaper and the candlewick off my bedspread.

The MFI story reminds me of DB and playing hide and seek in the B&Q display kitchens.

I de-wicked a bedspread too, even though I knew double pneumonia was a very real risk of being infinitesimally cooler at night.

There was a thread on here, I think, about people punching cakes in the supermarket!