New Bedford's Dipper Cafe Finds False Teeth

The lost-and-found collection at most New Bedford-area restaurants and bars is bound to be full of interesting items, but The Dipper Cafe recently found something left behind that they weren’t about to pick up and put into a box.

We swear this is the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth.

This morning, the popular spot for South Shore-style bar pizza found some false teeth left on the ground outside and posted them to The Dipper Facebook page with the caption “PSA: If you lost your teeth, they’re in the alley on the side of the bar!”

Courtesy The Dipper Cafe

We’ve heard of burning the roof of your mouth on a hot pizza, but we’ve never heard about leaving the roof of your mouth outside the pizza place. Although to be fair, these look like a bottom plate.

“My father found them this morning when he came in to get the bar set up,” Dipper co-owner Josh Gagne told us. “I got the call when he did.”

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Pizza connoisseur Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports fame recently stopped by The Dipper for one of his “One Bite Pizza Reviews,” although we doubt they’re Dave’s dentures.

He’s done a number of other pizza reviews since stopping by The Dipper and would’ve needed them to chomp down on a slice by now.

If you’re the person who left your teeth behind, Gagne said they’re still outside – at least they were as of this writing. You never know, some dental-deprived squirrel might come along and start using them to crack some nuts.

Of course, The Dipper’s followers had a field day in the comments section. Most of them we can’t reprint here. Some people can be absolutely toothless – er, ruthless.

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