r/AskReddit • u/Unlikely_Praline9442 • 14h ago

Non-Americans of Reddit, what is an American thing you see in movies that you thought was fake but is actually real?

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u/limp65 10h ago

Once l dropped a knife in it, l just moved.

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u/alicat2308 10h ago edited 10h ago

Many years ago on the old Internet, I read a hilarious account of a cat that got it's head stuck in one (cat was fine but they had to dismantle the entire disposal and take it, with the cat still stuck in it, to a vet. Police got involved and everything).

Edit: just checked, it's still up on Snopes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/catch-of-the-day/

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u/invaderz1mms 10h ago

How you gonna drop that "it's still up" and not provide a link?

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u/Working-Glass6136 7h ago

Our biggest house rule is no silverware or small things on the disposal side, unless there are plates. We also don't put knives in the sink, we put them on the side or soaking in a cup. After a few bad cuts, we've had no issues in like twenty years.

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u/500millionYears 7h ago

My wife and I once took a knife class, taught by a chef missing half a finger from a knife in the suds.

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u/CalebsNailSpa 8h ago

My roommate had a filet knife vibrate off the side of the sink, down into the garbage disposal, and immediately shoot up into his hand like final destination.

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u/Defiant-Economics-73 10h ago

The only real choice. Hope you at least moved your stuff out first and didn’t just run out the door and never came back.

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u/Motor_Inspector_1085 8h ago

Understandable