FabSwingers.com forum: eating daffodils

By *reelove1969 OP Couple
over a year ago

bristol

just heard on the news that supermarkets are being urged to move them away from the fruit and veg as some people are confusing them with food and eating them !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is it the 1st of April?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think it was people confusing bulbs with onions.

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By *ickawitchCouple
over a year ago

Away with the fairies (Liverpool to you)

I know some flowers are edible and I ate a lot of daisies growing up (don't judge me I also ate a lot of other stuff parents don't like children eating)

but I am not sure if daffodils would make you sick??

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By *evaquitCouple
over a year ago

Catthorpe

Nothing surprises me these days. Once served broccoli to an adult guest, sane too, apparently and they asked what the little trees were.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just goes to show how stupid some people are. I sometimes wonder how they manage to breathe without a leaflet telling them how.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Nothing surprises me these days. Once served broccoli to an adult guest, sane too, apparently and they asked what the little trees were.

is how we used to describe them to the kids - green trees - brocolli - snow trees - cauliflower

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"just heard on the news that supermarkets are being urged to move them away from the fruit and veg as some people are confusing them with food and eating them ! "

LOL!!!!

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By *anatee175Couple
over a year ago

Sunderland

I'm sure I've read somewhere that a man died from eating daffodil bulbs as they are poisonous he mistook them for onion.

Claire

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's how humans use to eat. U had to have faith

Nature was cruel not to warn us

Oh wait maybe God warned us

Haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm sure I've read somewhere that a man died from eating daffodil bulbs as they are poisonous he mistook them for onion.

Claire "

Yes they are extremely poisonus.. The bulbs can look like shallots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm sure I've read somewhere that a man died from eating daffodil bulbs as they are poisonous he mistook them for onion.

Claire

Yes they are extremely poisonus.. The bulbs can look like shallots"

would be shallot - sorry bad joke

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just a thought but don't supermarkets label their goods nowadays?

I can just see Mondays headline, Family of five in Hospital after mother mistakes 42inch HD TV for pizza, when interviewed a close friend says they will be suing Sainsburys for failing to put cooking instructions on the Box

Gimp

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Stupid people can die of ignorance.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Stupid people can die of ignorance. "

Everyone is born ignorant but there are those that have cautious characters and question....

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"Stupid people can die of ignorance. "

As can intelligent people.

In fact, it makes me think that the person who first picked the daffodil, in some Dutch greenhouse, had evil in his heart and thought 'kill, kill, kill' when he picked that particular plant. His evil somehow got inside the daffodil and so, with a foreboding sense of inevitability, some poor sod purchased the innocent bunch of daffs, unaware that a

bedevilled stem was lurking therein.

Er....which he then chopped up, herbed and spiced it, baked and ate it with some fava beans and an average Chianti.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i recently ate a daffodill bulb and was rushed into hospital . The doctors were very symapthetic and said i should be out in the spring

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By *ittlebitWoman
over a year ago

Plymouth

Daffodil bulbs are really toxic don't eat them!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Leave them where they are....

I feel that health and safety is allowing the more stupid amongst us to live and breed....

I'm not advocating the genocide of the stupid people but let's just take the warning labels off stuff and do away with 'idiot proofing' everything and let the world sort it's self out...

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By *teveanddebsCouple
over a year ago

Norwich

"just heard on the news that supermarkets are being urged to move them away from the fruit and veg as some people are confusing them with food and eating them ! "

Was it Gerald?

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

Just did a bit of research. Apparently in 2012 a special leaflet was handed out to the Chinese community in bristol raising awareness of the toxicity of daffodils following several hospital admissions for severe vomiting after eating them.

Before they are in flower daffodils bear quite a resemblance to Chinese chives. Perhaps the same confusion is happening here?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

It's why they are labelled 'daffodils' and not 'Chinese chives'. There in plain English for all to read.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"It's why they are labelled 'daffodils' and not 'Chinese chives'. There in plain English for all to read. "

All well and good if you can read English

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I,Fox,got stupidly d*unk at a party in Denmark and for a dare eight three daffodils.

I was violently ill and would not recommend it.

Mind though, after throwing them up I went straight back in and other silly things.

Happy days.

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By *win PeaksCouple
over a year ago

Northamptonshire

Surely if they are that stupid to eat daffodils they should be allowed to do so and delete them from the gene pool.

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By *ildt123Man
over a year ago

Huddersfield

Yes it's mainly aimed at the Chinese community as they look like Chinese chives but can make you very sick, not sure if people have died but about 27 people admitted to hospital.

You could say it is natural deselection lol but I guess if they are near the veg section and those that can't speak English are ending up in hospital it's fair enough

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Surely if they are that stupid to eat daffodils they should be allowed to do so and delete them from the gene pool."

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"It's why they are labelled 'daffodils' and not 'Chinese chives'. There in plain English for all to read.

All well and good if you can read English

When in Rome......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Daffs are toxic and if eaten they will cause severe vomiting at best, death in worst case.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its for the heard of thinking lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i recently ate a daffodill bulb and was rushed into hospital . The doctors were very symapthetic and said i should be out in the spring "

Haha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I once had a six year old child of a couple who had just moved into the village I was living in ask....

Why I had buried my potatoes in the ground

I explained that I had not burried them they were growing there and I was digging some up for him and his parents for tea

He proclaimed me a liar as potatoes come from Sainsbury's

I really worry what we are teaching our children about where their food comes from at times

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By *hite SnakeMan
over a year ago

leeds

"Yes it's mainly aimed at the Chinese community as they look like Chinese chives but can make you very sick, not sure if people have died but about 27 people admitted to hospital.

You could say it is natural deselection lol but I guess if they are near the veg section and those that can't speak English are ending up in hospital it's fair enough"

Another reason why they should learn English.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

"Yes it's mainly aimed at the Chinese community as they look like Chinese chives but can make you very sick, not sure if people have died but about 27 people admitted to hospital.

You could say it is natural deselection lol but I guess if they are near the veg section and those that can't speak English are ending up in hospital it's fair enough

Another reason why they should learn English."

I agree. If I emigrated I'd expect to pick up the local lingo. Enough not to get get poisoned anyway.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Do divs think they are asparagus

Her

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

just need to learn how daffodils are spelt in case they are a different plant in somewhere like Holland perhaps..

so sprouts are not actually fart bombs then..?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Nothing surprises me these days. Once served broccoli to an adult guest, sane too, apparently and they asked what the little trees were.

They're Bonsai Oaks, aren't they?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sometimes the gene pool needs a little chlorine

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"just heard on the news that supermarkets are being urged to move them away from the fruit and veg as some people are confusing them with food and eating them !

Was it Gerald?"

Brilliant; - Woop, woop!!

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Apparently the shoots are similar to some Chinese growths, so it may also be due to overseas people buying here and their confusion.

I dislike the dry flaky skins of Daff bulbs and wouldn't consider eating them, and touch them as little as possible.

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