Congratulations to last week’s Food Fail Friday winner, “Puke the colors of the rainbow,” taking 37% of the vote in what amounts to one of our more hotly contested weeks. Keep the food fails coming, and keep on voting!
After slicing fresh chili peppers, don’t impulsively touch your face. The oil from the pepper will seep into your skin, and no amount of water or plea bargaining will stop the ever-intensifying burn. #LFMF
When eating a piping hot burrito, do NOT swallow it, in the hopes that once it's in your stomach it will cool down. You will end up burning your esophagus & it will feel as if you're swallowing 1,000 nails for the next week. #LFMF
Despite what the commercial may have said, it takes much more than 3 licks to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie pop. Imitating the owl will be painful. #LFMchildhoodF
If your ground turkey tastes like tuna fish, DON’T EAT IT. Just don’t eat it. And don’t try feeding it to the dog to see if she thinks there’;s anything wrong with it, either. You’ll both regret it. #LFMF
As for the peppers.
Wear some hypoallergenic gloves while cutting. When done put the peppers somewhere where no more hands will touch them, just utensils. Then don’t contaminate any surface with your gloves. I remove one to turn on the sink to rinse the cutting board and knife and open/shut the diswasher. While using the gloved hand to manipulate the cutting board and knife.
Even washing your hands several dozen times thoroughly doesn’t remove the capsaicin. Only switching back and forth between a cooking oil and soap and water multiple times works.
Or rinsing with a liquid antacid/water mix. Wearing gloves is easier, but that and multiple handwashings aren’t the ONLY things.
Can we get a moratorium on any hot pepper related fails? There’ve been a crap-ton of them on here.
I’m assuming that’s why there’s a single representative here for the whole genre.
That single representative is unneeded given that we’ve had so many of them recently. By now, anyone who could possibly LFTF has already done so.
Umm… Really, Burrito? If it’s too hot to eat, it’s too hot to swallow. Even little kids know that much.
Basic food rule: Poultry that smells “off”… is.
There’s a reason you always kill your own chickens in places where there’s no refrigeration.
umm, can we just assume that the mods made these up because they wanted to get out of the office and go invent their own food fails that they won’t remember tomorrow night?
I’ve done the pepper thing… with a tiny orange EXTREMELY INSANELY hot pepper… and wanting to get a bit of grit out of my eye.
Velocity is right about one washing of soap and water not getting the capsaicin off. And twenty minutes using the spray nozzle from the sink to flush your eye out is not fun. Hence my vote for that as a top food fail.
Particularly since I’ve survived both the burrito and tootsie pop with much less pain, and anybody who eats off-smelling poultry is a dolt. (And only I’ve only met two dogs that wouldn’t eat *anything* they were given or found.)
i envy turkey-person. everyone i know has already met enough off-smelling foods to know better. i wanna live in a place where its strange and unexpected to the point people don’t know not to eat it. sad sad….