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Wooden cooking utensils that have been washed a bunch or raw wood popsicle sticks or those little wooden spoons that come with ice cream cups, all genuinely revolting 🤮
Cheap acrylic sweaters/yarn is also pretty bad
Thinking about the wood touching my teeth just makes me shiver. Ugh.
The spoons.. I always die inside a little when I see these out in the wild. Some food trucks around here use them and similar wooden forks. Even thinking about them gives me so much discomfort ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Add clarinet reeds to that. That feeling of wood against teeth… great, now I’ll have shivers down my spine all day from thinking about it.