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[–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (5 children)

Sounds like rice cakes, my sister eats them and they taste like sand and air and a hint of sugar, they can be kinda translucent. A couple bites and it’s shaped like an m. Don’t listen to the brain dead commenter that said “are you sure it wasn’t some kind of drug”. You probably just ate the last of some weird snack from a local ethnic market that your parents didn’t go back to. Might have even been Halloween related, I came home with some strange foreign snacks after trick or treating as a kid. On the other stuff you said, that’s just being a kid with an active imagination. My childhood home had a staircase that I vividly remember jumping all the way to the bottom of. That’s like a 20 foot long jump and a 15 foot vert. There’s no way in hell I could skip all the steps and jump the whole thing, but I remember doing it vividly. If any of these impossible occurrences happened after you turned 10, that’s not imagination, that’s hallucination, and you need to see a psychiatrist

[–]Evolution_Underwater 9 points10 points  (0 children)

+1 for rice cakes! Buy some at the store and give it a try.

ETA: I think your brother was messing with you, pretending not to know what they were or what you were talking about. Sounds like something my brother would have said.

[–]NoCommunication7[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

M-shaped rice cakes does sound like a logical explanation, it's very possible there were none and that my poor communication skills of that time meant i couldn't describe or get across what i wanted, it's very possible my brother was messing with me, he's done this before, another theory to add to the imagination one.

By the time i was 6-7 the hallucinations died out and i never saw one again.

[–]mystery332 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Or more likely, two adults helped you “fly” up and down the stairs (which is why you felt) as if you jumped the distance? Just another perspective.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

That definitely makes more sense than my memory of leaping 20 feet at 4 years old

[–]mystery332 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Affirmative on both counts ;)

[–]BED-Throwaway 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Any chance it could be something like this

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Signature-Brands-Betty-Crocker-Candy-Cake-Decorations-1-1-oz/29304607?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=101021173&&adid=22222222228000000000&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=42423897272&wl4=pla-51320962143&wl5=9030447&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=217895498&wl11=online&wl12=29304607&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7bnwkZLW7AIVEL7ACh2s1Aw7EAQYASABEgLyifD_BwE

They’re made of sugar and something else, but they taste like nothing and are super grainy and brittle. Often come in different letters and shapes (hence the “m”) and sizes. Can’t say they’d ever be palm sized but if you were a child they might have seemed bigger in your palm.

Also explains why your brother might not remember, since they’re not really a “food” per se, even if you can eat them. I used to sneak them from the cupboard when I was little because I liked the design and crunch lol.

[–]callingapathy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was my guess...I used to hate the taste but love the texture so I'd get into them all the time. We always kept them in a weird spot in the cupboard, too (probably to avoid me getting to them to waste them).

It would explain the coloring and looking similar to the McDonald's logo since they come in all different shapes and sizes.

[–]picturesofmeghan 6 points7 points  (1 child)

there is a fluffy hard pastry that looks like this too! it’s made of almost swirls edit : they’re called elephant ears or bear claws

[–]NoCommunication7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I googled that and it's not an exact match, this food was made of solids there were no liquids in it

[–]solorna 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your location at the time this happened might be helpful, as in the country.

[–]heidivonhoop 5 points6 points  (1 child)

This is what immediately came to my mind https://images.app.goo.gl/1rtAmj5XAENmVDQ59

[–]NoCommunication7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks close but i remember a literal McDonalds logo made of sugary/salty stuff

[–]Subject-Reference968 3 points4 points  (1 child)

50% (or is it 25%?) that they were W-shaped sweets.

[–]Evolution_Underwater 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or an E or a 3! So yeah, 25%. 😆

[–]forestfluff 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Did your brother have a handful of them? Are you sure it was even food and your brother wasn't just fucking with you?

[–]NoCommunication7[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember he was eating one and i asked for one and he retrieved one from a cupboard, what's strange is the fact i walked outside at night, and when i asked for another one, there was no trace.

[–]DoesntEvenMatter2me 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How old are you/what year(ish) was this?

[–]read_at_work 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The taste and texture you describe definitely sounds like rice cakes/crackers.

[–]vsbobclear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Country / approx year?

[–]LayneKrusz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The letter part reminds me of something that happened in 1st grade to me. The teacher said we were getting brownies. We instead got Es colored brown. Brown Es. I think I rolled my eyes at it.

[–]Silent-Chipmunk5820 -5 points-4 points  (7 children)

What can you remember about the container it came out of?

How did you feel after you ate it? Are you sure it wasn’t some kind of drug?

Where was this exactly? It would help to pinpoint what is being sold and where if this isn’t a global product.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Who would give their little brother drugs? They said they were 2 or 3 at the time.

[–]NoCommunication7[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I don't remember any container or packaging, but i highly doubt it was drugs, my sister was doing some dodgy stuff back then (including what we believe was drug usage) but i highly doubt my brother was doing stuff too, i had no hallucinations after it, it was mostly normal childhood stuff.

[–]Silent-Chipmunk5820 -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

Who knows?! You’ve got to consider every option here! Don’t accept random junk from any old person unless you know what it is! My parents taught me that from a young age!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

OP clearly stated that it was their brother who gave it to them, that’s not ‘any old person’.

[–]Silent-Chipmunk5820 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

That still doesn’t rule out his brother duping him. Brothers sometimes like to play pranks on their siblings.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a fucked up prank. Even a small amount of and type of drug would almost definitely kill a 2-3 year old, and definitely put them in the hospital. You can’t go around not taking food off your own family members just in case it’s laced with drugs.

[–]NJ-Robert732 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You lack critical thinking skills. Also common sense.