Food 'Urban Myths'

[Levo-Lon]

I just had a turky off the bone salad and salad cream sarnie...i fancy some chips now too..
wife wont eat any green on spuds...i dont like em when they go gooey and stink the cupboard out..

 

[Lilliburlero]

Texture just like C4

Its a bugger to get through customs...

There are recorded cases of people being poisoned by apple pips.

Arsenic tastes great.

Edit... or is it cyanide as Coffeejo says?

 

[classic33]

Its a bugger to get through customs...

Never had any problems.

 

[classic33]

Carrots allow you to 'see in the dark' a myth put about in WW2 by the Brits to confuse the Germans about portable (aircraft fitted) RADAR

Also in the Dig for Victory campaign

 

[Lilliburlero]

Never had any problems.

With marzipan or C4?

 

[classic33]

Cyanide, isn't it? Though I think you've got to eat quite a lot. My dog would eat her body weight every day in fallen apples in summer and autumn (I live on a fruit farm) if she could get away with it, so has to be kept on a lead til we leave the property.

Not saying anything on that one.

 

[classic33]

With marzipan or C4?

Easiest way to find out is to eat a piece.

 

[welsh dragon]

As I understand it, the pips of apples are coated in a hard shell. This means that unless you chew the seeds, they will pass through your digestive system quickly and harmlessly. And even if you chewed the seed, the amount released is so small, that a human can quite easily cope with it. Just don't chew loads of them at the same time.

 

[classic33]

As I understand it, the pips of apples are coated in a hard shell. This means that unless you chew the seeds, they will pass through your digestive system quickly and harmlessly. And even if you chewed the seed, the amount released is so small, that a human can quite easily cope with it. Just don't chew loads of them at the same time.

Dry them out, powder them down and then use on some you don't like, when you give them an apple to eat.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I heard that if you have a wart, all you need to do is rub it with bacon and then bury the bacon in the garden and it'll go (the wart that is!). My nan used to swear by it. Not sure how it works...I like bacon too much so have never wanted to waste it

If you have a swelling iron a cabbage leaf and tape it to the swelling so i am told.

 

[TreeHuggery]

I always thought the seeds inside peppers were poisonous - have spent years telling people that they are, after eating a fair few recently, I'm fairly sure that they're....

 

[raleighnut]

If you have a swelling iron a cabbage leaf and tape it to the swelling so i am told.

Depends where the 'Swelling' is though.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Carrots allow you to 'see in the dark' a myth put about in WW2 by the Brits to confuse the Germans about portable (aircraft fitted) RADAR

Yeahbut Vit A is good for eyes and there is a fair bit in carrots, so im told.

 

[raleighnut]

Yeahbut Vit A is good for eyes and there is a fair bit in carrots, so im told.

Far more in 'leafy greens' (Spinach, Kale, Cabbage etc) and Lettuce though.

 

[welsh dragon]

You can all stick your vegetables where the sun don't shine. I still fancy egg and chips.