Top Ten Deadly Veg
Killers could be in your house right at this very moment. They could be hiding out in the fridge and pantry, waiting for their moment to pounce. How will you deal with them when they do? Read Mark Steer's guide to the ten deadliest vegetables. You never know when you're going to need to overpower some vicious veg.
THE NULL'S TOP TEN DEADLY VEGETABLES
(click on the links for the inside story)
(click on the links for the inside story)
 |
10. Carrots As deadly as Clive Owen makes them look in the film Shoot Em Up? No, but don't shoot up with them. |
 |
9. Water chestnut It's no fluke that water chestnuts made the top ten. Oh wait, yes it is - it's parasitic flukes. |
 |
8. Parsnip Masters of disguise, parsnips can pass themselves off as one of the deadliest plants. |
 |
7. Avocado Avocados can take advantage of your weakness for rubber to do you in. |
 |
6. Pokeweed Cool name? Yep. Tasty teatime treat? Maybe. Massively toxic killer plant? You betcha. |
 |
5. Rhubarb Sometimes Mother was right - those rhubarb leaves will cause you no end of trouble. |
 |
4. Cassava Isn't it a bit funny that one of the world's commonest staple foods is full of cyanide? |
 |
3. Peanut Almost the ultimate vegetable killer, peanuts have got all the moves but lack originality in their methods. |
 |
2. Tomato A healthy food? I don't think so. They've even got friends with guns. |
 |
1. Potato On sheer number and variety of deaths the potato wins hands down as the deadliest vegetable. |
Disclaimer: If I say it's a vegetable, it's a vegetable. So there. No arguments.
Great articles on the Null:- Interesting - 'No fear' pill on the way
- Unsettling - Noxious niffs of new cars
- Oh stop it - The scratch and sniff diet
- Gadgets - Weird stuff from the Null shop
- Weird - Snot helps cyber-hooters smell
- Weirdos - Boffins bottle the smell of microbial farts
Join our Facebook group!
Thanks to B. James McCallum for bringing pokeweed to my attention.
Share this
