Don't fall for this hoax

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IvoryParchment
IvoryParchment Posts: 651 Member
in Food and Nutrition
This seems a bit more malicious than the usual urban legend:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/bananas.asp

There is no flesh eating disease in bananas, and if you ate a banana, you do NOT have to burn off your own flesh to prevent amputation or death!

Who is sick enough to make something like that up?
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  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
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    I have never heard of that in my life. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Crystal817
    Crystal817 Posts: 2,021 Member
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    :huh:
  • RonSwanson66
    RonSwanson66 Posts: 1,150 Member
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    I blame the "40 Bananas a Day" people. The bananas have HAD ENOUGH and they're fighting back.
  • UponThisRock
    UponThisRock Posts: 4,522 Member
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    I blame the "40 Bananas a Day" people. The bananas have HAD ENOUGH and they're fighting back.

    Pretty sure it's "30," lol.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
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    We all knew bananas were the worst food you could eat while dieting. Now we know why!
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
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    The CDC set up a special hotline for this? I guess I should be glad that people are trying to verify the information before believing it, but... wow.
  • RonSwanson66
    RonSwanson66 Posts: 1,150 Member
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    On the bright side, I foresee the cost of bananas dropping, just like pork did after the last swine flu scare.

    I'm thinking of spreading a particularly scary hoax that involves lobster.
  • missdaisy79
    missdaisy79 Posts: 566 Member
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    Ron, could you think up one involving filet mignon and red wine please?
  • Andylee63
    Andylee63 Posts: 154 Member
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    Bring back the Banana Man
  • tuneses
    tuneses Posts: 467 Member
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    I hear red wine has arsenic in it. Get a TV doctor to back that and lets watch the price drop. go and spread the word on the internets!!!
  • Barneystinson
    Barneystinson Posts: 1,357 Member
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    The flesh eating disease referenced is probably someone who confused it with bacterial / fungi infections that plague our modern Cavendish banana crops:

    http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-06/can-fruit-be-saved


    It's an interesting article.
  • sjohnny
    sjohnny Posts: 56,142 Member
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    I heard that 18 Year Old Single Malt is worse than bananas and arsenic laden red wine combined! Spread the word! Think of the children!
  • Pocket_Pixi
    Pocket_Pixi Posts: 1,167 Member
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    On the bright side, I foresee the cost of bananas dropping, just like pork did after the last swine flu scare.

    I'm thinking of spreading a particularly scary hoax that involves lobster.

    Please do as long as the price of lobster will come down I am all for it lol
  • salmasy
    salmasy Posts: 15
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    We all knew bananas were the worst food you could eat while dieting. Now we know why!
    exactly how are they the worst food to eat?
  • RonSwanson66
    RonSwanson66 Posts: 1,150 Member
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    We all knew bananas were the worst food you could eat while dieting. Now we know why!
    exactly how are they the worst food to eat?

    They contain a flesh-eating virus. Haven't you been paying attention? ;)
  • pamelajean76
    pamelajean76 Posts: 1
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    :noway:
  • rochey1098
    rochey1098 Posts: 285
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    On the bright side, I foresee the cost of bananas dropping, just like pork did after the last swine flu scare.

    I'm thinking of spreading a particularly scary hoax that involves lobster.

    Genius really :laugh:
  • hillm12345
    hillm12345 Posts: 313 Member
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    We all knew bananas were the worst food you could eat while dieting. Now we know why!
    exactly how are they the worst food to eat?

    They contain a flesh-eating virus. Haven't you been paying attention? ;)

    Well... the zombie apocalypse had to start SOMEWHERE...
  • kayelrick
    kayelrick Posts: 31 Member
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    I heard that 18 Year Old Single Malt is worse than bananas and arsenic laden red wine combined! Spread the word! Think of the children!

    :happy: love it . . . especially Bushmills . . . .

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