How do you get an artichoke thistle out of your throat???

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Inspired by my MN name I bought some artichokes yesterday. DH and I had them as a starter last night and when we got to the hearts a obviously did not remove all the thistles. Since 8pm last night I have had a really annoying scratchy tickle at the back of my throat. At first it made me want to gag and now its just annoying. I have gargled, dranks big gulps of water, eaten bread. Nothing helps. Any ideas?

Think I may change my name to Melon - much safer as a starter. But nasty in a tagine.

Maybe you've scratched the back of your throat, and that's what you're feeling, rather than the thistle itself still being there? I'd have thought that the bread, water etc would have shifted anything solid that was there.

Maybe you are right serenity - it just feels like a thistle but that could be because I keep picturing it as a thistle. Bloody artichokes. Who would be stupid enough to eat a vegtable named after its uncanny ability to lodge itself in your throat?

I know someone who got the bristle from a pastry brush stuck somewhere at the back of her throat (the brush had shed bristles in whatever she was baking and she'd eaten one by accident)-she described the feeling just as you did, an annoying, scratchy tickle.

She went to her GP who sent her off to the hospital to have it removed but I'm not sure of the details of what they did though I'm afraid.