Beware of the beetroot!

[Easytigers]

Just had the scare of a lifetime. Went to the toilet (sorry but it has to be mentioned) and when I went to flush, the water was bright red! I thought the world had fallen out of my bottom and that I was going to die! Cold sweats ensued followed by an emergency Google to see what might have caused it...I sat my wife down to explain that I thought I should go to A&E but she just laughed at me!!! She then reminded me that we'd tried putting beetroot in with the usual veg that we roast last night...I hadn't even thought to make the link!

Now feel a strange mix of relief, stupidity and a need to share!

Sorry if it was too much information!

 

[stephec]

I eat lots of peas, but I've never seen it go green.

Guinness on the other hand.......

 

[Easytigers]

I eat lots of peas, but I've never seen it go green.

Guinness on the other hand.......

Never had Guinness...I'm presuming coal the next day???

 

[Herzog]

Never had Guinness...I'm presuming coal the next day???

Something like that...

 

[Archie_tect]

How many days in the week do you manage to keep it down Mort?

 

[ufkacbln]

How many days in the week do you manage to keep it down Mort?

Floating is a good sign of sufficient roughage

 

[yello]

I love beetroot. Raw preferably, grated in a salad or with carrot and olive oil as a coleslaw, juiced with a bit of apple to take the edge off, or roasted.... love the stuff.

Yes, it can colour your, um, poo & wee but I haven't found alarmingly so.... and you do need to eat a fair bit of it! The juice, I find, is more likely too.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Beetroot is vile. FACT.

 

[numbnuts]

Beetroot is vile. FACT.

+1

 

[threebikesmcginty]

It's purple dung.

 

[biggs682]

try the golden Beetroot lot sweeter and just as nice

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I once ended up going for a cystoscopy after a haematospermia diagnosis. The procedure failed (it felt completely wrong and my muscles just locked) but as I never had either the symptoms or the procedure again, I put it down to either beetroot or a ruptured blood vessel after a long and uncomfortable ride.

 

[DWiggy]

Asparagus can make your pee wiff!

 

[ColinJ]

That brings back memories ...

Panic-stricken new girlfriend: Come and look at my poo!

Me, watching TV: Sorry love, I'm not into that kind of weird sh*t. (Forgive the pun!)

G/f: No, I mean it - I think I might have bowel cancer!

So, there I am a few moments later, staring at some partly digested beetroot ...

Me: It's the beetroot that we ate last night.

G/f: Are you sure?

Me: Yes - the same thing happens to me.

I look back down at the offending excrement ...

G/f blushing, hastily flushing it away: Stop staring at my poo, you're embarrassing me!

Ha ha!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I once ended up going for a cystoscopy after a haematospermia diagnosis. The procedure failed (it felt completely wrong and my muscles just locked) but as I never had either the symptoms or the procedure again, I put it down to either beetroot or a ruptured blood vessel after a long and uncomfortable ride.

If there's a choice I'd rather have the ruptured blood vessel.