Guest 713- Registered: 19 Mar 2011
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I see that the the health people have written to all major supermarkets,asking them to display DAFFODILS away from the fruit & veg as people might get confused,& think that they might be things like onions & try to eat them
Are people that stupid,by thinking that DAFFODILS are fruit & veg?
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#2
I heard that, must be a concern for them to do it!!
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Jan Higgins
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#3
I saw this on the news this morning has H&S gone bonkers, thinking of the Carry On films I thought daffodils had another use.
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Andy B
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#4
Its more like when people mistake just the bulbs for onions.Someone i worked with a few years ago told me of a story of their grandmother making a stew and going to the shed to get some onions but picked up daffodil bulbs by mistake and used them instead.He said that his grandmother and someone else in his family who ate the stew became seriously ill and almost died.Took them along time to recover.Seems daffodil bulbs can be highly poisoness.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
Not as mad as it sounds, they are similar to what Chinese people consider to be food.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31176748Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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#6
Chinese cooking does use spring onions but they do not look like daffodils, but I can understand the bulbs being mistaken for onions
Peter might know of another Chinese vegetable that looks like a daffodil.
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Reginald Barrington
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#7
Easy mistake to make in fairness, Alium Tuberosum
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#8
We have lots of allium tuberosum in our garden. Not easily confused with daffs though. But daffodil flowers are edible.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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#9
The picture is the chives in the form they are sold in asian markets it's the similarity to daffs in bud that must cause the confusion, I can imagine expats in china buying them and putting them in vases and being suprised when they open.
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