The Poisonous Typo

By Alex in Food & Drink on Sep 5, 2008 at 12:10 am

We have so many typos on Neatorama that I’ve decided to call ‘em features rather than errors. But as far as I can tell, we haven’t made anyone physically ill with our typos.

Here’s a story of a typo that actually sent people to the hospital:

On Thursday, a popular Swedish food magazine recalled 10,000 store copies after a mistake in one of its cake recipes left four people sick, dizzy and in pain.

"There was a mistake in a recipe for apple cake. Instead of calling for two pinches of nutmeg it said 20 nutmeg nuts were needed," Matmagasinet’s chief editor Ulla Cocke told Agence France-Presse.

Link – via Freakonomics

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Woogie
Sep 5th, 2008 at 1:12 am
I’ve actually used Nutmeg to get high. It is far from a pleasant experience. I can understand it making people sick given what it did to me. Got a bit buzzed, but dear god the side effects. Nausea, dizziness, head clogged full of gunk, mervousness, palpatations etc…

Don’t do cake ingredients, kids! Drugs are fine.
Tracy
Sep 5th, 2008 at 1:51 am
If someone actually thought putting that many nutmeg nuts into a recipe was a good idea, they probably shouldn’t be in the kitchen. I’m actually pretty impressed that so many people managed to choke down enough of the cake to get sick; it must’ve tasted awful.
sam
Sep 5th, 2008 at 1:55 am
High doses of nutmeg can also cause pretty terrific hallucinations.

And I mean “terrific” in the 1920′s way, not like “super awesome.”
Moodindigo
Sep 5th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Smoking the tiniest amount of Nutmeg can produce the most amazing amount of vomit.
CSI
Sep 5th, 2008 at 2:48 am
You have to wonder who would actually put 20 nutmeg nuts in a cake. Must be the same people who help disgraced politicians smuggle money out of Nigeria.
Sofar
Sep 5th, 2008 at 2:49 am
This sort of thing usually happens a few steps down the line from the person who actually wrote the article. Where do you even get nutmeg nuts anyway?
TwoDragons
Sep 5th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I was about to comment on the gullibility of anyone who puts 20 nutmeg nuts in a cake, but it looks like most everyone else here in on the same level with me in that respect. And good grief, that must have been one seriously expensive cake. Nutmeg ain’t cheap, especially in nut form.

I love nutmeg, is small doses. sprinkled on a cappuchino. Or in eggnog.

Mmmmmmm…eggnog…

–TwoDragons
TwoDragons
Sep 5th, 2008 at 8:28 am
IN small doses. Aargh.

–TwoDragons
Miss Cellania
Sep 5th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I dunno, I feel a little sick every time I spot a typo that I should’ve caught days ago.
Christophe
Sep 5th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
“Smoking the tiniest amount of Nutmeg can produce the most amazing amount of vomit”
Mmm… I smell the sweet odor of a bad prank to be done
Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
Sep 5th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
They couldn’t have been experienced cooks.

And how did they even eat enough to make themselves sick? Surely it would have been too strong a flavour to stomach.

Blech.
honk
Sep 5th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Not to split hairs, but if I see “passerbys” one more time I may actually become physically ill.
Thomas
Sep 7th, 2008 at 2:41 am
I’d heard that nutmeg can be done similarly to heroin, and was used by sailors mostly. Can’t remember where I heard that.
Ali S.
Sep 8th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Nutmeg is a dangerous substitute to drugs which have been well documented. Don’t know how many times an ambulance had to cart off one of the freshmen back in my Dorm because some got the idea that Nutmeg was an awesome marijuana substitute!

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