Food 'Urban Myths'

[Mandragora]

Link I gave was to NHS website - so no ulterior motive there other than health education, I'd imagine. Still, up to you - either ignore or note, it's a free country

 

[Markymark]

Makes me wonder about all those Chinese and Indian take-aways I've eaten since 1977...

Re heating rice is not much of an issue. The problem is usually rice left at room temperature when the bacteria grows.

Chances are the takeaways adhere to foid hygiene policy to prevent this.

The idea that because you've eaten loads of rice from all sorts of places without issues means it's harmless is just simply not understanding what risk means at all.

 

[swee'pea99]

Eating Nandos makes you a ledge, apparently. I've no idea what a ledge is in this context, but I read it on the internet so it must be true.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 3746674, member: 259"]Eating quinoa makes you go left wing.[/QUOTE]

Read that in the Graun?

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 3751864, member: 9609"]hmmm . I eat lots of apples and I always eat the whole apple, the wooden stalk is the only bit left. I must be living proof that the theory is wrong, iether that or I aint got long left LOL[/QUOTE]
Or proof that you're a true Scot.

 

[stephec]

Bread crusts are "the best bit". Are they?

I mean nutritionally.

According to my gran it gives you curly hair.

 

[raleighnut]

According to my gran it gives you curly hair.

But where, is the question.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3746674, member: 259"]Eating quinoa makes you go left wing.[/QUOTE]

Saying quinoa bestows you with a speech impediment.

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 3751864, member: 9609"]hmmm . I eat lots of apples and I always eat the whole apple, the wooden stalk is the only bit left. I must be living proof that the theory is wrong, iether that or I aint got long left LOL[/QUOTE]

Snopes.com has an answer http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp

 

[classic33]

[QUOTE 3751864, member: 9609"]hmmm . I eat lots of apples and I always eat the whole apple, the wooden stalk is the only bit left. I must be living proof that the theory is wrong, iether that or I aint got long left LOL[/QUOTE]
Possibly

 

[Archie_tect]

But where, is the question.

Warrington, apparently...

The idea that because you've eaten loads of rice from all sorts of places without issues means it's harmless is just simply not understanding what risk means at all.

Oh Mark, I didn't mean 'I've eaten loads of rice from takeaways so it's rubbish and there's no risk'. I meant, 'Isn't it lucky that I'm still here!'

 

[Markymark]

Oh Mark, I didn't mean 'I've eaten loads of rice from takeaways so it's rubbish and there's no risk'. I meant, 'Isn't it lucky that I'm still here!'

Ah, misunderstood.

 

[jhawk]

"When the ice cream van rings its bell, that means he's ran out of ice cream, Jack."

At least that's what my Dad told me to save him a few quid over the childhood years. Sneaky.

 

[Hitchington]

A workmate had been told by someone he trusted that mushrooms were poisonous until they have been cooked. So when he saw me eating a salad lunch with bits of raw mushroom in it, he practically knocked the box out of my hand in an effort to save my life .

The guy's a hero

 

[vernon]

The potato one has a grain of truth, the green is actually chlorophyll, harmless enough, but tubers that have been exposed to light enough to develop chlorophyll also develop solanine, which is poisonous, but unless you eat a lot of green potatoes the amount in the skin will not harm you, but any with eyes that have sprouted should be discarded.

These are the only bits that I discarded from the potatoes that I used to make oven chips tonight.

I might be gone some time....