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(Some Guy)   Today's scare-mongering news ratings grab: (whispering) If a bunch of unlikely things all happen at once (full volume) PANCAKE MIX CAN KILL YOU   (nbc5i.com) divider line
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Layer3Ninja
2006-06-16 1:48:33 PM  
Nice headline. :)

I lol'd...or something.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-06-16 1:58:57 PM  
Tonight at 11: 'Linoleum: Silent Killer in Your Kitchen!'

(Dave Barry)
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 2:05:06 PM  
I prefer hallucinogenic ergotism, myself. But whatever.
 
boojl
2006-06-16 2:05:30 PM  
So... If you're deathly allergic to mold, moldy pancake mix can kill you? Why is the article limited to, or at least focusing on, pancake mix? Wouldn't anything moldy be something you'd want to avoid?
 
Menofearthereaper
2006-06-16 2:11:04 PM  
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe you shouldn't be eating any foods that are 2 years old.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2006-06-16 2:11:41 PM  
boojl: Wouldn't anything moldy be something you'd want to avoid?

Sssh! Don't spoil all the scare-mongering fun!

After this word from our sponsors: If you left a fire burning in the fireplace and then had a huge gas leak,
YOUR HOUSE COULD EXPLODE WITHOUT WARNING!
 
Fnord
2006-06-16 2:12:16 PM  
Will no one think of the bunnies?!
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 2:34:20 PM  
Menofearthereaper: I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that maybe you shouldn't be eating any foods that are 2 years old.

Pancake Bunny says...
[image from i29.photobucket.com too old to be available]
"Man up, Nancy!"
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 2:38:25 PM  
boojl: For one, you might not even be aware you have a mold allergy unless exposed in sufficient quantity/concentration. Secondly, there are lots and lots of types of mold - even sensitive people may not have reactions to all of them. And there might be something about pancake mixes that fosters the growth of certain "bad" molds - I would suspect the buttermilk and egg additives.

But yeah -- old and moldy food of any sort probably isn't the best stuff to be eating.
 
lordargent
2006-06-16 3:09:15 PM  
Diogenes [TotalFark]

boojl: For one, you might not even be aware you have a mold allergy unless exposed in sufficient quantity/concentration

The article makes it sound like they were aware of the allergy.

They said a 19-year-old who suffered from a mold allergy

Unless, of course, they mean she suffered from it from the time she ate the pancakes to the time she died.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 3:19:34 PM  
lordargent: See, this is what you get when you don't RTFA. I responded out of the context of the victim.
 
Diogenes [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 3:25:56 PM  
[image from simpsonsland.net too old to be available]
"I'm Kent Brockman. On the eleven o'clock
news tonight, a certain kind of soft drink
has been found to be lethal. We won't tell
you which one until after sports and the
weather with Funny Sonny Storm."
 
commonsensless13
2006-06-16 3:46:14 PM  
this stuff is as bad as tabasco... we should ban them both!
 
jakomo002
2006-06-16 3:47:19 PM  
"Still, doctors say people shouldn't abandon sunscreen: They probably should use more."

Oh, aha. Um, thanks.
 
PancakeBunny
2006-06-16 3:47:20 PM  
LIES!!! Enjoy the pancakes!
 
platypusjones
2006-06-16 3:47:46 PM  
Vicks Forumula 44D is NOT an acceptable substitute for Log Cabin, either.

but boy did my chest clear up after breakfast.

\DRTFA
 
melz
2006-06-16 3:47:57 PM  
Um, devil cakes? No, thank you.

/obscure?
 
jakomo002
2006-06-16 3:48:25 PM  
Wrong thread? Ack.
 
Walker [TotalFark]
2006-06-16 3:49:05 PM  
OH MY GOD IN HEAVEN!!!!
[image from img.photobucket.com too old to be available]
 
TheSignPost
2006-06-16 3:49:51 PM  
Thank God - I keep my pancake mix in the fridge.


/ phew
 
pixistick
2006-06-16 3:49:54 PM  
Who eats two year old pancake mix anyway?


Oh, never mind. That guy did.
 
ateksuni
2006-06-16 3:50:17 PM  
Actually, jakomo002, that was oddly on topic...

TWO YEAR OLD pancake mix???

Ewwwwww.....
 
TwoBitFratWhore
2006-06-16 3:50:28 PM  
[image from abclocal.go.com too old to be available]

This just in, eating moldy food might be bad for you.
 
Theonceovertwice
2006-06-16 3:51:07 PM  
"A twinkie has a shelf life of twenty years. If you eat a twinkie that's twenty years and one day old, do you say, 'Ewww, does this taste funny to you?'"
 
Were_Outta_Bort_License_Plates
2006-06-16 3:52:05 PM  
FTFA: "A lot of the molds that might develop in a pancake mix, for example, are more likely to be things that are kind of like bread molds or wheat molds that may occur."

...more likely COMPARED TO WHAT? CHRIST IN A SIDECAR, ANYONE WITH A PULSE CAN BE A FARKING JOURNALIST (or scientist, apparently).
 
Freshie
2006-06-16 3:52:52 PM  
Not a word of a lie, on Toronto's CityNews tonight it's about how tending your garden can kill your unborn fetus.
And they announce it exactly the way the headline reads.

The saddest part is the lady used to do pretty good health stories, but the station is trying to get ratings for their news, so now it's all death and dismemberment by oxygen...
 
stellar_wench
2006-06-16 3:53:02 PM  
I wonder it eating old meat can kill you? Can other rotten food kill you? I demand more research in this area!

Oh... wait...
 
Jake Leg
2006-06-16 3:53:50 PM  
I'm fairly sure I have a box a Bisquick in my pantry that my wife had when we first moved in together nearly four years ago.

Would you say it is time for people to panic, and run amok in the streets?
Yes, I would Kent.
 
runchkin
2006-06-16 3:54:00 PM  
TwoBitFratWhore: This just in, eating moldy food might be bad for you.


Appropriate use of Romero.
Ten points for TwoBitFratWhore.
 
NotANinjaJustABox
2006-06-16 3:54:03 PM  
Tonight, Air, gas of life or secret government death vapor, found out at eleven!

/name that reference
 
JohnBigBootay
2006-06-16 3:54:26 PM  
I was just sitting here thinking to myself,

"Hmmm, I have some damp moldy three year old pancake mix in the cabinet - mmmmmm I know what's for dinner tonight!"

but now that I've read this article I think I might opt for Taco Bell.

WHO EATS OLD MOLDY PANCAKE MIX?

/or even new moldy pancake mix for that matter
 
NotANinjaJustABox
2006-06-16 3:55:15 PM  
Wow. Please forgive my horrid use of commas and grammer in the above post.
 
DatYellowGuy
2006-06-16 3:55:22 PM  
This was one of the myths on snopes like a long time ago...or I think I saw it there.
 
ak4799mm
2006-06-16 3:55:25 PM  
Good form, submitter, good form.
 
August11 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 3:55:56 PM  
Is it me or are we in a serious news lull. Doesn't something really big always happen right about now?
 
ScummyTheGymbag
2006-06-16 3:56:06 PM  
Freshie
ow it's all death and dismemberment by oxygen...

I KNEW that channel was BAD!
 
TwoBitFratWhore
2006-06-16 3:56:23 PM  
oops, crap. forgot the preview.
 
bencollins
2006-06-16 3:56:26 PM  
Real deal...

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/pancake.asp
 
Freshie
2006-06-16 3:56:29 PM  
NotANinjaJustABox
I had to read it twice to fix it in my head. Must have gotten a batch of that bad oxygen.
 
Spank my ButtMonkey
2006-06-16 3:58:00 PM  
rule of thumb, if it has been in your cupboard for years, and the bugs won't nest in it, throw it away

or donate it to katrina victims

//was that crude?
///I don't want to be...oh wait...yeah, I am crude
 
I_Attack_People
2006-06-16 3:58:06 PM  
submitter: PANCAKE MIX CAN KILL YOU

...with deliciousness!
 
JMB
2006-06-16 3:58:06 PM  
I wrote a paper once about how ergot mold may have just caused the Salem witch-hunt.

Wet year, improperly stored grain, BAM!, instant hallucinogen (sort-of).

/I woke up for this headline?
//Yeah, I guess I did.
///Going back to bed. *FOOMP*
 
cretinbob [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 3:59:11 PM  
Darwin strikes again....

what kind of asshat eats two year old pancake mix?
 
Telak
2006-06-16 3:59:17 PM  
Next on fox, when expired foodstuffs go bad!
 
DaCaptain19
2006-06-16 3:59:21 PM  
I, for one, am glad they chose to show a picture of pancakes.
 
JMB
2006-06-16 3:59:55 PM  
W00T! First simul-posties!

2006-06-16 03:58:06 PM I_Attack_People

submitter: PANCAKE MIX CAN KILL YOU

...with deliciousness!

2006-06-16 03:58:06 PM JMB

I wrote a paper once about how ergot mold may have just caused the Salem witch-hunt.

Wet year, improperly stored grain, BAM!, instant hallucinogen (sort-of).

/I woke up for this headline?
//Yeah, I guess I did.
///Going back to bed. *FOOMP*
 
FriarReb98 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2006-06-16 4:01:27 PM  
August11: This Day in History (pops) Nope, not really...
 
Theonceovertwice
2006-06-16 4:01:36 PM  
"Wow. Please forgive my horrid use of commas and grammer in the above post."

And for spelling "grammar" wrong?
 
Lamune_Baba
2006-06-16 4:02:47 PM  
[image from coldwarpeacemuseum.org too old to be available]
 
Deschit
2006-06-16 4:03:12 PM  
mmmm... Ricin Krispie Treats
 
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