OMG! You peeps have my mother turning over in her...um...ocean! (sorry...but we buried her in the Atlantic!)

If she ever caught me crunching ice, I would get the 5 (ok...more like 20) minute lecture on how ice crunching can make "hairline fractures" in the teeth that we may not notice for years to come...but they are there!

And...WHAT DID I TELL YOU ALL ABOUT MOM'S ADVICE AND LECTURES??? Huh? HUH?

Well, she was right (as usual....damn!)! A few years back, while munching on popcorn (it was the crunchier of the kernels...but none the less) I cracked a tooth off as if I were experiencing the result of living in a nuclear power plant! And, what do you think I did when no pain resulted from that? I crunched my ice and cracked another tooth off in the span of 10 minutes! I asked the dentist (as I sat through painful reconstruction) what could have caused such a coincidental happening in the same day. He said, "You chew ice, don't you"? I nearly fainted!

I'm not here to preach (much)...but ya'll better stop crunching before you end up looking like Cleatus, the slack jawed yokel!!!

*jumps off the frozen soap box*

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