Daffodil bulbs and onions

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You couldn't' make this up! Know your onions I say :15:

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Keep Daffodils Away From Food, Stores Told

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Supermarkets are told to keep the plants away from fruit and veg, as mistakenly eating them can cause vomiting and diarrhoea.

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Supermarkets have been told to make sure daffodils are kept separate from fruit and vegetables to prevent customers eating the poisonous plants by mistake.

Public Health England (PHE) said people have been known to mistake daffodil bulbs for onions and the stems of a popular Chinese vegetable.

PHE has sent a letter to stores advising them on how to avoid this happening as the flower comes into season.

If eaten, daffodils can cause vomiting and diarrhoea and irritation to the mouth and throat, according to the British Columbia Drug and Poison Information Centre, which said symptoms can last anywhere from four to 24 hours.

Figures from PHE show that doctors and nurses have sought advice on poisonings linked to eating daffodils 27 times in the last year.

For each year that figures are held, the rate of poisonings goes up in spring and peaks in March.

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Cont: http://news.sky.com/story/1423059/keep-daffodils-away-from-food-stores-told
 
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Dad told me about this earlier.

Surely this just comes down to natural selection? If you can't tell the difference then........!
 
When I used to work in Sainsbury's one of my colleagues said a customer once came in and had a massive a go because she bought a daffodil thinking they were onions... he basically told her to fuck off lol. Surely you look at something before you buy it and / or eat it??
 
It's quite simple really.....

You plant daffodil bulbs, you get daffodils.

You plant onions, you get onions....... Lol
 
I don't think you are taking into consideration how stupid some people are. And some are really, really stupid.

We have to protect the idiots.
 
No, that goes back to the law of natural selection really Lewis.

Nature intended the very weakest and the most stupid of a species to die out, only the strong survive. We are now watering down the gene pool with idiocy!
 
In Norwegian they are both called onions, or rather, they are both called "løk"
I hope that helps.



 
In Danish, the word for tax is "skat" and the word for darling is also "skat".
 
BBJ - 8/2/2015 14:03

In Danish, the word for tax is "skat" and the word for darling is also "skat".
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Close John, it actually means "treasure", so you can see how it can be twisted to mean either tax or be used as a term of endearment. In Norwegian it's "skatt".

 
"Gift", pronounced "yift", is another interesting Scando word, it means both married and poison. Figure that one out.


 
Daffodil bulbs look very similar to shallots(type of onion). I guess if you stored them in the onion section of the supermarket confusion could arise.
 
I've seen pleanty of dafts by the onions but never daffs.

 
The Fear - 8/2/2015 15:04

I've never seen daffs by onions though, have you?
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Not right next to them, no....But I have seen them sold in the same section as fruit & veg. The problem is that they sell Daffodil bulbs in nets that look similar to shallots. Only they have a picture stapled to them with Daffodil flowers on. However the labels(picture) can tear off leaving the bulbs in a net with no description & looking very similar to a net of shallots.
 
So a few morons will get the shits and learn a lesson........my heart bleeds.


 
I recently heard a story that a guy was really ill in hospital after mistakenly eating daffodil bulbs

His consultant says that he will be coming out in the spring ;-)

I'll get me coat!!
 
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