Green Peppers

[sophie_1003]

I was told today that green peppers shouldn't be eaten raw as they are sharp and can perforate your innards. This sounds like a load of rubbish to me but has anyone else heard about it?

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Sounds like rubbish to me too.
I like raw peppers and I'm definitely not dead

[Vagrant]

I eat 'em all the time, and I'm also alive and kicking.

Not sure, but I think Subway use them as a standard extra - so definitely a load of bovine excrement.

[sophie_1003]

The gentleman who told me said he knew someone who went to hospital because of eating a raw green pepper then warned me how I should always cook them!

[anneasquith]

was the gentleman drunk ?

[Vagrant]

Yep, just checked Subway website - if they were dangerous to eat, Subway would have been closed down, and you would have heard about it.

[gingejbee]

My old grannie insisted on peeling cucumber because "the peel is poisonous". It turns out that it's the only part worth eating!

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

My nan used to say if you swallowed chewing gum it would wrap around your heart.
I think this gentleman may have attended the same school as my nan.

[anneasquith]

i thought swollowing gum went straight to your lungs, thats what i was told

[sophie_1003]

I don't think he was drunk!
I was actually at work and helped him find the red peppers, I mentioned we also had packs of red and yellow peppers on offer but he said "Urgh I don't like yellow peppers, or green peppers...did you know some people eat green peppers raw?!" I replied that I liked green peppers raw, it was then he said that I shouldn't eat them raw as they have sharp edges! He didn't appear to be kidding but maybe he was, didn't believe him either way!
Did a Google search before asking on here and a couple of websites said that green peppers are unripe red/yellow peppers so should be avoided (am going to ignore this as well!) but no mention of sharp edges!

[looobylooo]

when i was young, i used to think that the seeds i always ate in grapes would get embedded in the chewing gum i was always swallowing, and id end up having a 'grape tree' growing inside of me ...

not heard that about green peppers sophie - sounds a strange one that, doesnt it.

[4getmenot]

and if you swallow bubble gum you blow bubbles out your bum when you poo

[RATTER15]

A load of old tosh!!!!

[4getmenot]

sam peppers are bad for you though

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

ROFL 4getmenot.
I have a sudden hankering for bubble gum

[4getmenot]

or when you trump :-)

[anneasquith]

if you swollow a grape seed you get appendicitis! if you go outside with wet hair you get pneumonia ! you must take syrup of figs every friday night even if you dont need it.

[4getmenot]

If you crack your fingers you get arthrytis