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Wild, Wacky & True – Magazine Recipe Causes Food Poisoning

According to canada.com, it seems that a simple typo in a Swedish magazine led to four people being poisoned.

See, a recipe for apple cake was posted, and “Instead of calling for two pinches of nutmeg, it said 20 nutmeg nuts were needed.” The error was spotted after printing, letters were sent to subscribers, and inserts were added to store issues. But these warnings didn’t reach everyone. One group of people still tried out this horrifically over-nutmegged recipe, and the four suffered poisoning symptoms like dizziness and headaches.

How can anyone choose to make that recipe and not question that amount, or not be turned off by it? One sniff of nutmeg is hint enough that it’s way too strong to imagine 20 nuts in one cake.

So, even if you don’t come to the conclusion that there was a typo, one would think that the recipe would just seem, well, gross. I can only imagine that those who ate it have taste buds that don’t measure sickening amounts of nutmeg.

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People whom cook regularly would know, however, someone trying for the first time would be clueless. I knew a woman whom turned over cheeseburgers after she put the cheese on. She never cooked until she got married.

Posted by Caviar | September 6, 2008 | 12:50 am | Permalink
 

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