To think if you cannot tell the difference between a daffodil and a spring onion then you are an idiot [light hearted]

[Mammanat222]

Hoping OH doesn't come home with a bunch of spring onions next Sat.

m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31176748

Seriously though - supermarkets are now having to make sure they keep the daffodils well away from the fruit and veg so people don't eat them and poison themselves.

Madness.

Sorry link doesn't work.

I was at this earlier on the news. If you can't tell a bunch of bloody onions from a bunch of flowers then you're not ready to be alone in the supermarket. That's it - no more to be said!

There's already a thread about this. Daffodils look a lot like chinese leeks. They're also practically unknown as a flower outside of the UK and often sold near vegetables in supermarkets. Most people who have been poisoned are not from the UK

Survival of the least stupid. It'll kill of the people we could do without. That's why I put poison in Marmite jars.

If I was to visit a foreign country I'd at least try to learn a bit about local food. Not just wander into the nearest supermarket, but a bunch of bulbs and eat them, come I people, a modicum of common sense would be good.

Buy, not but!!

The BBC article is pretty clear on why it happens. Other thread explaining why you actually don't have to be an idiot to make this mistake is here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2302301-Who-are-these-idiots-who-think-that-daffodils-are-food

It's a bit of overkill isn't it? Just when you think they can't get any more bizarre...

I think Prof Paul Cosford, director for health protection at Public Health England, was bored and wanted to jazz up his week by checking if anyone was listening.

Well having actually lived in a foreign country I can tell you it's not as easy say you might believe.

It's like buying The Sun and thinking it's a newspaper just because its next to some

If in doubt ask, don't just shove it down your neck and then wonder why you're violently sick!

so are these Flowers or food?

Wow, posters being branded racist for thinking it's bizarre.

You might ask why we sell toxic plants in the same aisle as edible vegetables? It's hardly intuitive is it?

I've never seen daffodils actually mixed in with spring onions and spuds though. They are always in buckets with other things that are fairly obviously flowers

The in-bud ones are often sold in bunches laid horizontally in green plastic crates like veggies. I'm assuming these are the Issue rather than the obvious in-flower ones

I really have never seen them in crates like veggies. But if shops are doing that, yes they could easily stick them in buckets away from the spring onions to prevent confusion