[net.cooks] Death by Radishes

nemo@rochester.UUCP (Wolfe) (03/25/85)

> How about two slices of bread liberally covered with butter, with sliced
> radishes in between.  Disclaimer--I don't eat this, but my husband loves
> them.
> Betsy Cvetic

One caveat when eating radishes - don't eat a lot and drink coke at the
same time.  A friend of mine got married last summer, and had some of his
buddies up for the nuptuals.  While we were out celebrating his last night
of bachelorhood, the topic of radishes and coke came up.  Seems one of their
friends back at U Kansas had (for unknown reasons - perhaps just to be
obnoxious) prepared for a basketball game by eating a bag of radishes and 
drinking a couple of colas.  This produced an enormous quantity of gas
in the stomach, which the perpetrator then inflicted upon people rooting
for the opposing team.  The odor most resembles that of a landfill.  I didn't
believe them and did the experiment myself.  I ended up on the couch that
night - last time I ever try that!
Nemo