How can I stop salivating while using teeth whitening strips? [more inside]
posted by ShootTheMoon on Oct 9, 2009 - 6 answers

My adult son and my boyfriend refuse to ever send anything back in a restaurant because they claim the kitchen staff (in ANY restaurant, fast food or otherwise, ANYWHERE) will spit in it or do something equally disgusting to the food. I have always called bullshit on this one, but they are adamant. [more inside]
posted by angiewriter on Sep 13, 2009 - 69 answers

Servers spitting in food: fact or fiction? [more inside]
posted by Solon and Thanks on Aug 8, 2008 - 54 answers

Salivafilter: Why do i keep having to swallow spit? [more inside]
posted by freddymetz on Jun 5, 2008 - 8 answers

What children's book had one of the main characters, a boy, collect his spit in a bottle? It seems to me that at some point he tripped on the stairs and broke the bottle. I remember being utterly grossed out by this. I seem to recall it being a sort of a dramatic book, rather than light. As a side note, there may have been a bully in the book who was obsessed with airplanes, and possibly a brother and a sister who were obsessed with kingfishers, although it's entirely possible I'm describing three separate books.
posted by Addlepated on Oct 1, 2006 - 4 answers

I need helpful hints for spit-roasting a whole pig. [more inside]
posted by ninazer0 on Mar 3, 2006 - 9 answers

To all men and women who spit: help! Warning, this is a bit unappetizing... [more inside]
posted by rio on Nov 28, 2005 - 17 answers

Spitting in the urinal, what's that about? Why do so many guys feel the need to spit first, before urinating? [more inside]
posted by soundslikeobiwan on Jul 29, 2005 - 50 answers

Why do people spit -- especially in public? I'd be really interested in hearing from someone who spits as to why he/she does it. It seems to be a class thing, and I'm too upper-middle class to get it. I never feel the desire to spit. But is this desire natural, and has my class training has just repressed it in me? If I could understand it, maybe I wouldn't be so disgusted by it.
posted by grumblebee on Dec 21, 2003 - 39 answers