What do you guys call this?

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These things

They’re like, those things that you throw on the ground and they make a loud noise and I have no idea what they’re called in english

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  1. sewiv Avatar

    Whipper snappers

  2. BlenderDude91 Avatar

    We call em Firecrackers

  3. FriesAndToast Avatar

    I’ve always called them pop its

  4. jeepjinx Avatar
  5. Avery_Thorn Avatar

    These really don’t have a good name in English. I’ve seen them labeled as snap-pops or firework pops, from the noise they make.

  6. Katdai2 Avatar

    We always called them poppers.

  7. Jolly_Ad_2363 Avatar

    Poppers. There’s not a distinct name

  8. inflexigirl Avatar

    Annoying.

    But for real, I’ve always called them “poppers” or “snappers”.

  9. SnapHackelPop Avatar

    Snaps, maybe pops too

  10. GhostOfJamesStrang Avatar

    Snappers or Snap-Its

  11. TsundereLoliDragon Avatar

    According to wikipedia, bang snaps. It’s been so long since I’ve played with them I forgot what I even used to call them. Just snaps I guess?

  12. Spud8000 Avatar

    snaps!

    i believe they are fulminate of mercury! very unstable

  13. GrimSpirit42 Avatar

    Snaps. They’ve actually been outlawed during Parades in my state. I live in the home of the Original Mardi Gras, and the snaps would spook the horses.

  14. gettin Avatar
  15. SteampunkExplorer Avatar

    When I was growing up, we always called these “caps”.

  16. Tacoshortage Avatar

    Snap-Pops was the term in Texas 40 years ago.

  17. Yankee_chef_nen Avatar

    Reading this thread is making feel old. Seeing people say they called the cherry bombs or firecrackers and realizing that the younger generations didn’t experience the real thing for both of those.

  18. Jcooney787 Avatar

    In Puerto Rico they’re called garbanzos

  19. Hefty-Squirrel-6800 Avatar

    Bang snaps here in SE Texas.

  20. WeirdBoss8312 Avatar

    Called them snaps as a kid

  21. DOMSdeluise Avatar

    Snaps or pops/poppers

  22. limbodog Avatar

    Those are what I called snap caps or bang caps.

  23. Other_Bill9725 Avatar

    We called them “poppers”, but the box was labeled “snaps”.

    APPARENTLY. Two nine year old boys could use the money they’d made shoveling snow to buy three dozen or so boxes of these and put the crystals in a softball. At that point they’d have a concussion grenade.

    Of course I have no experience with such activities… it wasn’t us.

  24. Foxy_locksy1704 Avatar

    Pop it’s, snappers, I’ve head them call pop snaps before.

  25. qmong Avatar

    There isn’t a specific name. We call them snaps.

  26. thunder-bug- Avatar

    I’ve always called em poppers

  27. andmen2015 Avatar

    We just called them “poppers.”

  28. Live_Badger7941 Avatar

    Snap-pops.

    I think that might be a brand name, but I use it generically.

  29. rhodeirish Avatar

    Poppers or snappers interchangeably.

  30. quietfangirl Avatar

    I never knew what to call them but the other kids called them snaps, I think

  31. webbess1 Avatar

    I don’t know what they are. I would just call them candy.

  32. machagogo Avatar

    Snaps or poppers

  33. ByWillAlone Avatar

    I think the generic accepted term is “snappers”, but “pop-its” is what they are frequently called in the Pacific Northwest.

    The name varies regionally based on what brand name the regional fireworks manufacturers use. In this region, “TNT Fireworks” is the biggest distributor, so we call them by TNT’s brand name that they put on the box.

    Example: https://www.tntfireworks.com/fireworks/cat/snappers/2767-pop-its

    It’s weird seeing that people call them “poppers” elsewhere, because to me a “popper” is a cheese filled, breaded, deep fried jalapeno.

    Also, we have a different firework called a “party popper” where you pull a string to produce a pop with an outburst of confetti, so “popper” would be a bad name to use for pop-its.

  34. No_Cricket808 Avatar

    poppers or snappers

  35. pfcgos Avatar

    I’ve always called them snaps or poppers

  36. biggcb Avatar

    Pop-its, snaps/snappers

  37. InsertRadnamehere Avatar

    Poppers.not to be confused with amyl nitrate poppers.

  38. Dear_Musician4608 Avatar

    Snappers or Pop-Its but not poppers 

  39. MM_in_MN Avatar

    Snaps

    What we call poppers are the bigger ones that have strings on either side that you pull apart.

  40. sto_brohammed Avatar

    I haven’t thought about those in ages but I think we always called them pop snaps.

  41. TehLoneWanderer101 Avatar

    I don’t know if it’s a regional name for California but I’ve always just called them poppers.

  42. DizzyLead Avatar

    Personally I’ve always thought of them as “Snap Caps.” I think it was the brand name of the product that I would buy from the ice cream truck back in the day.

  43. Narrow_Tennis_2803 Avatar

    We called them caps in MA in the 1980s

  44. Cat_herder_81 Avatar

    Depending on who makes them I’ve seen them called snapits, popits, poppers, and bangers.

    Personally I always called them toilet paper bombs.

  45. judgingA-holes Avatar

    pop its or poppers.

  46. RemarkableBalance897 Avatar

    We called them crackers. They were in bright primary colors that looked like the knock off M&Ms made by Hershey.

  47. ___HeyGFY___ Avatar

    We called them “Chinese poppers” because the only place we could find them was in Chinatown when we went on field trips in grade school.

    EDIT: grew up outside Chicago

  48. cool_weed_dad Avatar

    Poppers or snappers. There’s probably a bunch of names for them.

  49. Top-Temporary-2963 Avatar

    Snappers or poppers

  50. No_Pilot_9103 Avatar

    Angry albino tadpoles

  51. LSBm5 Avatar

    Bang snaps or just snaps

  52. Plow_King Avatar

    we called them snap and pops.

    fun memory for me, my dad was a chemical engineer. he once decided to figure out what made snap and pops, pop, or go BANG. he then proceeded to make some almost “industrial” strength home made ones for us, with the chemical cured over very tiny gravel, inside gel caps with a tiny bit of paper wadded up inside as well.

    boy, they were loud as fuck and that gravel did sting if it hit your skin. mom was less than pleased and put an end to the production after a short time. but we had a blast with them for awhile.

    i miss you, dad…you were so much fun!

  53. teslaactual Avatar

    Snaps or poppers

  54. Hello_Hangnail Avatar

    We called them flashbangs because that’s what my grandfather called them

  55. John_TheBlackestBurn Avatar

    Whipper snappers in my family. That’s just the brand name that we used to get.

  56. rimshot101 Avatar

    I went hunting and apparently they’re called bang snaps.

  57. RealEzraGarrison Avatar

    Snap-n-Pops are the brand name most often sold in the southeast region, under the TNT brands umbrella.

  58. kilroy-was-here-2543 Avatar

    Pop it’s is the name brand here

  59. Scrappy_The_Crow Avatar

    I don’t know what folks call them generically, but in the ’70s, we had the “Snap-n-Pop” brand.

  60. T_Rey1799 Avatar

    In MN we say poppers

  61. frogz0r Avatar

    We always called them poppers. Or snaps I think was another name.

  62. thatthatguy Avatar

    Where I live the box says snap-pops.

  63. Apprentice0816 Avatar

    Snappers – Minnesota

  64. miles00001001 Avatar

    I’ve always called them pop pops.

  65. Master-Collection488 Avatar

    When they started selling them in my area circa 1979/80, the brand name was “Whippersnappers.” So that’s what I’ve always called the things. I unfortunately gave my Vietnam vet 6th grade teacher a bit of PTSD with one of them. He just tensed up visibly, he didn’t freak out or anything.

  66. fakeuserisreal Avatar

    I usually say bang poppers or snap poppers. I don’t know that there’s a universal name for them.

  67. AdamZapple1 Avatar

    bang snaps? poppers?

  68. KatharinaVonBored Avatar

    I call them poppers

  69. StaticCode Avatar

    Pop-its, which I think is the TNT brand name. That’s what they called them in my area, never heard other names. Kind of a Kleenex / Frisbee situation.

  70. JNorJT Avatar

    I called them mini firecrackers

  71. Sleepygirl57 Avatar

    lol I always call them those little things you throw on the ground and they make noise.

    My husband calls them snaps.

  72. CaptainPunisher Avatar

    I grew up calling them “snap caps”, but I’ve also heard poppers, snaps, and paper snappers.

  73. NeptuneAndCherry Avatar

    Bang-snaps (Ohio)

  74. Sharkfighter2000 Avatar

    We called them “bang-snaps” for some strange reason. I have no idea why. It doesn’t really make sense but, that’s what everybody I knew called them.

  75. LexiNovember Avatar

    Snappers. More specifically within my family they are referred to as “the little snappy-things,”.

  76. Longjumping_Event_59 Avatar

    Pop Rocks… oh, wait.

  77. BuildNuyTheUrbanGuy Avatar

    I never had a word for them. I just describe them.

  78. poisonedkiwi Avatar

    Either poppers or popits! I’ve heard both an equal amount, and I use them interchangeably.

  79. callmedoc214 Avatar

    My area of the midwest US calls the pop-its

  80. TonyTwoDat Avatar

    We called them Snap Pops

  81. strumthebuilding Avatar

    Snap pops. That was probably a brand name I saw as a kid or something.

  82. Proper-Application69 Avatar

    We call them mostly by the brand names on the packages. There are various brands sold around the country. I call them Party Snappers.

  83. Elle3786 Avatar

    Snap pops or pop its

  84. DrGerbal Avatar

    Firecrackers

  85. jmckny76 Avatar

    Snap and pops

  86. dnd_druid Avatar

    My family always called them snap-dragons. Why? I’m not sure. It might have been a brand name of them at some point.

  87. ElderlyPleaseRespect Avatar

    My brother in law used to put them on the counter and try to slap his “penis” On it to pop it