Talk:Crayon-eating Marine trope

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 12:07, 20 October 2023 (UTC)

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A former U.S. Marine eats an edible crayon

• ... that U.S. Marines eat crayons (pictured)? Source: Veteran creates first colorable chocolate edible crayon
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  • Comment: Please note that while the article is primarily about the humorous trope of Marines eating crayons, it does verify the claim that Marines do actually eat crayons sometimes, either as a joke or with specialty edible crayons, both of which are documented in the source linked above and by other sources in the article.

Moved to mainspace by Tamzin (talk). Self-nominated at 06:38, 18 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Crayon-eating Marine trope; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Article new and long enough. Source verified, I guess. Hook is obviously humorous, maybe add a 'some' qualifier (ALT1 below). It could be considered offensive, but I suppose since the Marines embrace the joke that wouldn't be. QPQ is done, no copyvio detected by Earwig. Good to go then. Juxlos (talk) 11:21, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

• ALT1: ... that some U.S. Marines eat crayons (pictured)?

How bad is it to eat crayons?

I know it's well understood you shouldn't eat crayons, but given that the meme/trope relies on the fact that eating crayons is bad, it would be nice if there was a sentence or two explaining why or how bad it is. I was pretty surprised to read, "Eating crayons has become a humorous tradition for Marines at graduations..." - like, if they actually eat them at celebrations, is eating them actually not that bad?

Anyways, great article, loved the DYK hook. Legoktm (talk) 17:09, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

@Legoktm: Missed this 7 months ago! Most crayons are non-toxic, but, like most non-nutritive objects, they'll still cause GI issues if you eat more than a small amount. The sources don't discuss whether the Marines wind up with diarrhea a few hours after graduation. If there were WP:MEDRS on the topic it might be worth mentioning in a footnote or something, but I'm actually not seeing any. Might be too simple a topic for anyone to have ever written a paper on it. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 03:37, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Explaining the link between crayon eating and low intelligence

It would be helpful to explain for people who wouldn't have the context that the stereotype of someone eating a crayon or glue comes from young children doing arts and crafts, and the adult supervising them having to be watchful that they don't consume the materials. 2600:4040:40DD:F300:99D7:85B9:5DE0:9858 (talk) 17:23, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Well...the context is that it's about marines, so we wouldn't want to be redundant. /ducks Corundum Conundrum (CC) 17:40, 8 November 2023 (UTC)

Haha just made me spit out the glue I was drinking. -USMC ‘86-91 ❤️ 🇺🇸 Timothy Chen Allen (he/él) (talk) 16:03, 1 August 2024 (UTC)