Health and safety - a good reason not to eat biscuits!

[Alexa]

Aside from the refined carbs in biscuits, it appears they might be dangerous in terms of health and safety

This article is about the most dangerous biscuits and associatied injuries: Named: the UK's deadliest biscuit - , - Odd news stories, updates & weather - MSN News UK

Lol at people poking themselves in the eye with biscuits!

This is reassuring. In the UK I feel like a freak when the tea and biscuits come out and I don't partake. Is the same elsewhere?

[sallyseachange]

Too funny!!!

[Georgiana]

Accidents have included people poking themselves in the eye with a biscuit, falling off a chair while reaching for the tin, sustaining burns after dunking a biscuit in scalding tea, and being hit by fragments flying through the air.

Other people have reported choking on crumbs and damaging a tooth or filling on a particularly hard biscuit. One unlucky person ended up stuck in wet concrete after wading in to pick up a stray biscuit.

Falling off the chair, sustaining burns, choking or damaging a tooth I can understand... But how on earth do you poke yourself in the eye with a biscuit???

And... "fragments flying through the air"?

[FwL]

Originally Posted by article

One unlucky person ended up stuck in wet concrete after wading in to pick up a stray biscuit.

Now that's dedication.

[Alexa]

Originally Posted by FwL

Now that's dedication.

Haha! Yeah, that's what I thought. It would have to be a pretty nice biscuit - like a massive triple choc cookie with hazelnuts for me to wade into concrete!

[mizski]

I think I would do it for a custard cream!!! Boy, those are good. That article was hilarious!

We don't have much of a tea time here in the States (too bad...it's a nice tradition) but there is a fancy inn here in Chatham that has afternoon tea at 4 pm. It's pretty much a Full Tea with savories, scones and pastries. A lot of it is the traditional fare but with all the attention to diet these days, they now offer even some low-carb goodies like cuke slices with chive cream cheese, smoked salmon/cream cheese pinwheels, pecan halves with a berry Devonshire cream dollop, egg salad in cute little pepper "boats," chopped radish/poppy seed/cream cheese mixture in little baby arugula (rocket) wraps, etc. And they even have decaf versions of a lot of the teas including my beloved Darjeeling.

[JulieB]

Originally Posted by mizski

smoked salmon/cream cheese pinwheels, egg salad in cute little pepper "boats,"

Ohh great ideas

[imagood1]

the article is another reason we should avoid starches....LOL!!!