Labels Urged for Food That Can Choke

NY TIMES ^ | 5-25-10 | LAURIE TARKAN

[WOBBLY BOB]

On a July afternoon in 2006, Patrick Hale microwaved a bag of popcorn for his two young children and sat down with them to watch television. When he got up to change the channel, he heard a strange noise behind him, and turned to see his 23-month-old daughter, Allison, turning purple and unable to breathe.

[SJSAMPLE]

I love how products I use every day have a label specifically for California:

"This product is know in the State of California to cause..."

I even found one of them inside a box of bullets, as if the lead hazard was the worst thing.

Truly, I wish everything in California did cause cancer.

[ravingnutter]

Small children can choke on hot dogs if they don't chew them properly.

I have to be very careful as I have had acid reflux for so many years that I choke easily on foods, especially hamburger and lettuce. I never eat popcorn for that reason.

[hometoroost]

"as if the lead hazard was the worst thing."They should warn of the dangers of high-velocity lead injections.

[hometoroost]

The Philadelphia Eagles will have to label their pre-game playoff meals.

[Deb]

Somewhere Mama Cass cries, “Great timing, ass-wipes!”.

[Deb]

CORN KILLS!!!!
and
BEWARE THE BUILD-A-BURGERS!!!!

[bgill]

Water can go down the wrong way.

[NEMDF]

Hot dogs: they are currently on the dangerous list.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-22-1Achoke22_ST_N.htm

[bgill]

are the labels going to be in spanish too?

That's racist!

They should be in at least French, German, Ter Sami, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Comanche, Malay, Dutch, Thai, Italian, Swedish, and Klingon.

[rfp1234]

What about all the foods and drinks that contain the deadly Dihydrogen Monoxide?

[killer_rat]

You know, if Mama Cass had given Karen Carpenter a ham sandwich, both would still be alive today.

[I still care]

If you are 21 and don’t know popcorn can choke you, you are too stupid to live.

These stupid laws infuriate me. They just add costs to the product and waste my time.

I can remember when a manual was actually instructions on how to use a product, and not a list of idiotic warnings like, “Do not throw electrical products in water”.

With every product I use, there usually is one “idiot Manual” which I throw out.

When you get an instruction manual nowadays, half of it is in some stupid foreign langauge, and half of the rest of it is “idiot” instructions, leaving usually just a few pages of stuff you DO need. Car manuals in particular are truly huge wastes. For every page of specs or instructions, there is usually at least two pages of “warning, do not let children drive vehicles” or some such garbage.

rant /off

[twister881]

"I've never choked on a weenie."

[Arrowhead1952]

Well, just as long as you don’t choke the chicken...

[WOBBLY BOB]

True of the Vikings,too.

[hometoroost]

Lots of sports team candidates - the Eagles were just the first to come to my mind.

[TNdandelion]

Jello?

[TNdandelion]

That’s it! We’re all doomed. I’m heading to the nearest bridge.....

[svcw]

Well, that would depend wouldn’t it. ,-)

[Publius6961]

What the hell’s he doing giving a 23-month-old popcorn?!

Exactly!

Stupidity should be a jail-time offence. Specially so when it results in what is essentially child abuse.

I am sick of the cretins of society prompting our elected retards to pass laws affecting the hundreds of millions of the rest of us and forcing us to live like handicapped mental deficients.

Prosecute the morons, not the rest of us.