have you ever been injured w/a food item?

[spidergoolash]

today i'm sitting down *relaxing* w/my daughter. she's swinging a piece of licorice around in her hand and inadvertently swung it into my eyeball http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/indiff.gif damn, that hurt.

also, did you ever notice how some food is sharp? take potato chips, for instance; if you don't chew them properly they scrape your throat going down. feels like you swallowed a damn razor blade. food can be dangerous ... things to ponder ...

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"it's easier to stay out than get out"

[Prox]

Hmmmmmm...well I actually cut my self on one of those carmel suckers once. I dont remember how but i think i got it so it was really thin then it somehow sliced my tounge. Kinda hurt.

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uh yeah . . .

[mthrlangl]

Hrm. When I was little I choked on chicken skin..does that count?

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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help. - Calvin

[JHowse]

http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif I've got the best one, so far. One time when my brother and I were pretty young. I was 10 and he was 13, I think, he and I got into a fight while we were helping my mother unload groceries. At the time we got those pepperoni logs that you slice up in the food processor. Well, he took one of those things and hit me on the head with it. I saw stars. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/frown.gif

[possum37]

I carved the turkey at our staff Christmas dinner last year - just a small occasion with us 10 full-timers...I didn't slice myself open, but I *did* have a rough time removing the leg from the body. I finally did so, but whacked my hand against the counter, which REALLY hurt. The resulting moise made my boss (who was making the gravy) jump and splatter hot gravy on himself. Another co-worker, the third and final guy in our group (see, this is just to show that you shouldn't leave guys unattended in the kitchen), was laughing at us and not paying attention to what dish he was picking up, so he picked up a very hot glass serving dish. From his language I'd assume that hurt him.

Then we got laughed at, coming back from the kitchen with all that wonderful food, looking like refugees from the battle of Gettysburg...

You know, only here at Soup do you find people who have food-injury anecdotes...we really are quite an interesting bunch of people. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif


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My knob tastes funny.

[liltaz]

I've also cut myself on a sucker.



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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."

- Woodrow Wilson

[spidergoolash]

poss, i wish i could have been there to see that http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif you wrestling w/a turkey and all ... jeez.

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"it's easier to stay out than get out"

[possum37]

To be honest, I was kinda thinking the same thing about the licorice incident...http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif...ironic as I *just* bought a package of Twizzlers at the grocery store this morning, too... http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif


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My knob tastes funny.

[spidergoolash]

yes, and the stunned expression on my husband's face when he asked me what happened to my eye http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

"that would only happen to you, wouldn't it" he said.

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"it's easier to stay out than get out"

[KNSinatra]

I'm one of those chronic tongue burners. You'd think that after 20 years, I would have learned my lesson by now -- don't drink any liquid that still has massive plumes of steam coming from it. But no, be it coffee, soup, even seemingly harmless hot chocolate, it's inevitable. And then I can't taste anything for the next two days. I've also burned my eye with altoid dust. How I managed that one, I still wonder....

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"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."

-Erma Bombeck

[Boone]

Hit my brother in the privates with a package of frozen string beans once. He was in a lot of pain. Does that count? I usually try to avoid confrontations with my food items. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif



<font color="#000000">[Edited by Boone on August 19, 2000 (edited 2 times)]</font>

[zmifwaf]

Not quite getting injured by food, but when I was a young'n I was peeling a carrot and took a piece of my thumb with it. As I recall, I did it on two separate occasions. (Kids never learn.)

I've also eaten so many sour-patch kids that they burned my tongue.

[Boone]

sour patch kids http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

[KNSinatra]

<FONT COLOR="Red">RED</FONT c> sour patch kids... http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/naughty.gif

P.S. If you're wondering about all those editting trials, that making-text-colored thing is more complicated than I expectedhttp://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/wink.gif



<font color="#000000">[Edited by KNSinatra on August 19, 2000 (edited 3 times)]</font>

[spidergoolash]

i got a chuckle out of the altoid dust one http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/lol.gif

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[monsieurjohn]

my sister was opening a can of jalapeños and it sqirted her in the eye, under the contacts and everything. she was, as i understood, in a lot of pain (yelling, jumping up and down, etc) and my mother was trying to figure out what was wrong, and my sister was yelling what was wrong, but my mother couldn't understand it... oh, it was a mess. funny from a third-party point of view, though. http://www.aliensoup.com/ubb/smilies/smile.gif

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