More than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits ranging from scalding from hot tea or coffee while dunking or breaking a tooth eating during a morning tea break, a survey has revealed.
An estimated 25 million adults have been injured while eating during a tea or coffee break – with at least 500 landing themselves in hospital, the survey revealed.
The custard cream biscuit was found to be the worse offender to innocent drinkers.
Hidden dangers included flying fragments and being hurt while dunking in scalding tea through to the more strange such as people poking themselves in the eye with a biscuit or fallen off a chair reaching for the tin.
One man even ended up stuck in wet concrete after wading in to pick up a stray biscuit.
The full list of riskiest biscuits:
- Custard Cream 5.64
- Cookie 4.34
- Choc Biscuit Bar (eg: Rocky) 4.12
- Wafer 3.74
- Rich Tea 3.45
- Bourbon 3.44
- Oat Biscuit 3.31
- Digestive 3.14
- Ginger Nut 2.99
- Shortbread 2.90
- Caramel Shortcake 2.76
- Nice Biscuit 2.27
- Iced Biscuits/Party Rings 2.16
- Chocolate Finger 1.38
- Jaffa Cakes 1.16
Is this serious? Cookie related injuries?
It beat the cookie to top a table of 15 generic types of biccy whose potential dangers were calculated by The Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation.
The Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation!? This sounds like a hoax… Oh wait, it is! “Hundreds of gullible council officials have taken part in a hoax health and safety survey on biscuit-related accidents in the workplace. The spoof survey was part of a campaign by the fictitious ‘British Biscuit Advisory Board’, an entity “created” by biscuit-maker Fox as part of a £3m advertising campaign.” fm-world.co.uk
Looks like The Telegraph has been duped. I wonder how long it will take them to figure it out, took me 5 seconds.
Source: The Telegraph
Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation? B.I.T.E. … I did hear similar item on CBC’s “As It Happens” about dunking injuries. Watch out for falling custard creams!
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