On a similar note, leftover pizza will make you wish you were dead if you’re on prednisone and theophylline, and get caught in an endless queue at radiology without your bottle of Tums. 
I think the danger of those is that a bystander will choose to smack you on the head with it, as revenge over your unleashing the noxious odor of durian on them.
This is why if you’re microwaving or baking a potato, you really need to stab the skin (carefully, so as not to slip and stab yourself instead) in several places, to let the steam out and prevent explosions.
Yum yum. Salt and vinegar chips! So tasty! So delicious!
So painful later on when the entire inside of your mouth is sloughing off in sheets!
I had a friend who very recently swallowed a chicken bone in what was supposed to be a boneless filet. He felt it going down, but disregarded it, thinking it was just a small scratch. Several days later he couldn’t even swallow water & went to the ER where he learned he would be scheduled for esophogeal surgery later that day.
Chicken bone in the esophagus, infection, ICU, 11 days in hospital later, and he’s still recovering. Ouch!
…and I heard the first solid meal they tried to serve him was chicken! :eek:
Cutting a bagel in half can result in stitches.
http://karai.com/archives/2005/01/03/new-years-death-toll-mounts/
Especially around New Year’s, when it’s apparently obligatory to eat for good luck. I think I was also told that it was common practice to try to swallow the rice ball whole rather than cutting or chewing.
On her 16th birthday my daughter caught her hair on fire while reaching over to blow out the candles on her birthday cake.
It wasn’t funny at the time of course but fortunately my brother recorded the whole thing and it’s now required viewing at all family get togethers. (She wasn’t hurt, just some singed hair.)
I don’t quite get this one. If I’m feeling lazy, I won’t even core a pineapple. Other than being a trifle unpleasantly tough (in some cases. A lot of the time, it’s soft and sweet.), I’ve never noticed that the core has any sort of potentially dangerous properties.
I assume on the little girls, the combination of a rough core plus the natural enzymes in pineapple that break down proteins ended up giving them a hell of a sore mouth.
Aaaaaaah, OK. Yeah, I had forgotten about the proteolytic enzymes.
[post=6468524]Seafood cocktail sauce[/post].
I LOVE Wassabi. I suspect, for the purposes of this discussion, what I actually love is a Wassabi-flavored paste made from horshraddish, but that’s not the point. When I buy sushi, I eat every last bite of the wassabi - if there’s any left over after the sushi is done, it goes straight in my mouth.
One day, it was especially hot. I relished the way it burned in a “whoosh” up my nose. Half an hour later, my entire mouth was edemitous. The inside of my cheeks were almost dripping with the swelling. Eating was painful for two days.
I still eat all the wassabi straight. I just do so slower, and with more care.
Uncooked cashews can be quite irritatingto actually poisonous and relatively small quantities can kill you if eaten raw.
Doritos can apparently be used as a weapon. Watch out for Ted.
Excess consumption of persimmons, particularly unripe or on an empty stomach, is a leading cause of phytobezoars or indigestible food masses trapped in the stomach, the vast majority of which require surgery to remove. Betcha didn’t see that coming.
I’ve been burned by many a pizza and fried mushroom, but it wasn’t until last week I obtained food that actually carries a warning label. The Ruchi brand of my beloved Indian Mixed (achaar) pickle sports a disclaimer on the label that reads “Warning: To be consumed in small quantities with food. Not for mass consumption.”
Further, the label informs me to “use only dry spoon.” Huuuuunnnnnh?
I know it’s not for mass consumption. My wife tried it at our local Indian restaurant and exclaimed “That doesn’t belong in a mouth!” But where is the real danger? Maybe it’s from the spice Asafoetida, also known as “devil’s dung?”
I’m an American of mostly English descent, so I have that taste for Indian food. Just want to know if I’m harming my health by eating achaar straight, over the stove, with a plastic, DRY, spoon.
Not sure if this counts as its not something you’re suppose to eat raw, but I read that there was a scene in the Jackass TV series where one of the guys is dared to eat two teaspoons of flour. He did it, and almost choked to death because it absorbed all the moisture in his mouth and throat!