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Weird injuries from food

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expatinspain · 19/05/2021 07:26

Last night I stabbed the roof of my mouth with a Dorito. It was bleeding for a good while and is still bloody sore this morning when I eat anything! Has anyone ever done that before? It's my first time being injured by a crisp 😂

What weird food injuries have you had?

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Ostryga · 19/05/2021 07:41

Took all the skin off the inside of my mouth after eating a whole bag of Co-op Chardonnay vinegar crisps.

LubaLuca · 19/05/2021 07:42

I've made my tongue bleed with a giant Double Lolly. More than once.

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expatinspain · 19/05/2021 08:00

Luba My daughter did that when she was little. Skin off her lip too 😱

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expatinspain · 19/05/2021 08:01

Ostryga OMG!! How? That sounds so painful!!

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doodlejump1980 · 19/05/2021 08:02

@Ostryga I did that too!! They are far too vinegary.

I’ve cut my hand trying to release an avocado stone.

LaMadrilena · 19/05/2021 08:04

I cut myself on a particularly crusty baguette the other day. Not on the knife, but on the actual crust.

Luckingfovely · 19/05/2021 08:05

I've taken all of the skin off my tongue by licking salt & vinegar Pringles Grin

Earlybirdmissedtheworm · 19/05/2021 08:06

My stepdad got a nasty burn from cutting into a Kiev and the hot garlic butter spat out at him

alloalloallo · 19/05/2021 08:08

A massive gash on my thumb from a frozen crumpet.

I caught got the crust from a tiger loaf just under a fingernail

Dontforgetyourbrolly · 19/05/2021 08:09

I did that too with co op crisps!

FrankiesKnuckle · 19/05/2021 08:11

My tongue piercing of 25 years suddenly became infected, my tongue swelled up and I had green gunk oozing from the site. I rather reluctantly took the piercing out knowing I'd never get it back in by the time the infection healed. A few days after starting the antibiotics I could feel something sharp in my tongue..... so I went at it with tweezers and pulled out a bit of popcorn skin (the hard stuff) from where my piercing had been - I'd eaten popcorn the night before my piercing had become infected.

UndeadSlut · 19/05/2021 08:12

Once had a double whammy - a sharp crumb of the crust of a tiger loaf went under my nail and stabbed me, I then used that nail to open a satsuma and the juice went in where it was already tender. Ouch! Just seeing the words tiger loaf has made me want some right now though so I clearly haven't learned.

idontlikealdi · 19/05/2021 08:16

Cut the roof of my mouth on a sherbet lemon

Burnt the roof of my mouth more times than I care to remember by insisting on eating pizza straight out of the oven. Weirdly satisfying popping the blisters...

petridishmystery · 19/05/2021 08:20

Years ago when I was at school there was randomly a massive craze on sherbet straws and I must have always tipped the straw onto the same place on my tongue as after a while I ended up with a smooth spot on my tongue! Guess from the acid? Didn’t take long to go back to normal once the craze for the straws died down.

LubaLuca · 19/05/2021 08:21

A roast chestnut exploded in my face. I looked like a cartoon character with a blackened face and hair blown back Grin

missjoanie · 19/05/2021 08:24

I enthusiastically bit into a jam doughnut that I didn’t realise had been warmed in a microwave. Scalding lava-like jam seared a trail down my chin. The scar is still faintly there, thirty years on.

Gumbo · 19/05/2021 08:24

I came very close to death recently from eating a marshmallow Hmm. It got fully lodged in my throat, Heimlich didn't work, I stopped breathing and an ambulance was called. No marshmallow will ever pass my lips again!

Latte40 · 19/05/2021 08:28

This has happened a few times but injuring my thumb by peeling tangerines- separating the thumb nail from the nail bed slightly then getting stung by the juice. DH reckons it's a lie!!

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 19/05/2021 08:31

Burnt my chin on a pizza.

Whataboutye88 · 19/05/2021 08:35

Got a prawn shell stuck in the back of my throat, couldn’t breathe, had to go to a & e to get it hoiked out with a giant pair of tweezers. Grim!

LagneyandCasey · 19/05/2021 08:39

Cracked my tooth on a hard piece of popcorn. Luckily I only needed a small filling. I haven't eaten popcorn since. Evil stuff!

Retrievemysanity · 19/05/2021 08:40

I burned my eyeball cooking rice Blush Had blisters going down it for a few weeks!

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expatinspain · 19/05/2021 08:46

My god food is so dangerous!! I can't get over the burned eyeball!! I remembered that when I was little I burned my lips really badly on a jam tart. My gran had taken them out of the oven and left them to cook and given me strict instructions not to touch them, but because I was a greedy little sod I took one and took a bite out of it. The jam was so hot and stick to my lips. I had massive blisters all over my top lip for weeks. I remember screaming the house down!!

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TheFutureIs · 19/05/2021 08:47

Allergic reaction to salt and vinegar Pringles. Lips were swollen to comic proportions

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expatinspain · 19/05/2021 08:47

Burnt my chin on a pizza I've done the roof of my mouth, actually, I do that most weeks 😂, but never my chin!!

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