They don’t call a jawbreaker “jawbreaker” for nothing, as one 19-year-old Canadian student painfully learned when she tried to bite down on the large candy ball.
“Has anyone else ever wondered if a jawbreaker can actually break your jaw?” Javeria Wasim asked on a TikTok video, her mouth wired shut after an emergency hospital visit. “Spoiler alert: it can and it did.” (See video below, posted by benchmob.)
Wasim says she challenged herself to bite through a 3-inch jawbreaker in a rush to reach the hidden bubblegum tucked into the candy’s center. But rather than bite the large sphere in half, she only managed to make a dent in the surface of the jawbreaker. Meanwhile, she chipped a tooth, loosened another, and fractured her lower jaw bone in two places. Ouch.
Wasim is now advising others to take their time reaching the centerpiece of a jawbreaker. “It’s better to take the six weeks to get through to it than having six weeks suffering the consequences.”
Via Metro
Previously: Let’s take a trip inside of a Jawbreaker
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