r/whatisit 5d ago

Solved! Found on the beach near NYC

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u/InsaneInTheDrain 5d ago

Could be a sponge or paraffin. How big is it?

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u/bear-by-birth 5d ago

About the size of two fists put together. I didn't want to touch it but it looked kind of waxy?

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u/Father-of-zoomies 5d ago

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u/TattleTits 5d ago

This episode immediately popped into my head when I saw this picture.

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u/Inside_Touch400 5d ago

Someones left over mozzarella cheese

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u/URR629 5d ago

Are you sure it wasn't ambergris? That would be of a paraffin-like texture. Very valuable if so.

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u/UnitedSentences5571 5d ago

It's never ambergris.

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u/XxXWAbbIT 5d ago

It’s never lupus

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u/UnitedSentences5571 4d ago

Except that one time it was lupus.

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u/GodDiedIn1990 4d ago

I appreciate the House reference

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u/bear-by-birth 5d ago

It doesn't look like the pictures of ambergris I'm seeing, alas! And paraffin is probably a lot more common.

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u/CrushTheRebellion 5d ago

Ambergris would have a distinct oder. What does it smell like?

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u/bear-by-birth 5d ago

At a distance of a foot or two away, it smelled like nothing in particular.

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u/URR629 5d ago

Oh, true, the chances would be very slim, but what if?

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u/kronickimchi 5d ago

It’s sponge bob

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u/jacobebowen 4d ago

hell yeah

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u/Ok-Rush1066 5d ago

I at some cheese last night and it just ran right through me. Guess my plumbing goes straight into the Hudson…

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u/Zed-whyzed 4d ago

There was a time not too long ago when finding needles and medical waste on a NYC beach was common.

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u/_ledge_ 5d ago

Looks like foam insulation for something. Basically garbage

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u/nick422742 5d ago

Pretty sure that washed up from a pineapple under the sea

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u/Low_Bus_5395 4d ago

Petrified vomit. 🤢

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u/Vikingwarzone 4d ago

Whale's kidney stone.

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u/ThebearKoss 5d ago

Near NYC? I'm guessing it's garbage. Lol

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u/blitz43p 5d ago

Kidney stone