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I prefer cookies myself.
Half of Brits injured by biscuits
More than half of all Britons have been injured by biscuits, according to a new survey.
Injuries range from being scalded by hot tea or coffee while dunking to breaking a tooth while eating biscuits, reports the Daily Telegraph.
An estimated 25 million adults have been injured while eating during a tea or coffee break - with at least 500 landing themselves in hospital, the survey found.
The custard cream was found to be the worse offender. It beat the cookie to top a table of 15 generic types of biscuit whose potential dangers were calculated by The Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation.
Custard creams get a risk rating of 5.63, this compared to 1.16 for Jaffa cakes, which was the safest biscuit of all in the evaluation.
Research company Mindlab International were commissioned by Rocky, a chocolate biscuit bar, to conduct the research.
It found almost a third of adults said they had been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking or trying to fish the remnants of a collapsed digestive.
It also revealed 28 per cent had choked on crumbs while one in 10 had broken a tooth or filling biting a biscuit.
More unusually, three per cent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven per cent bitten by a pet or "other wild animal" trying to get their biscuit.
Mindlab International director Dr David Lewis said: "We tested the physical properties of 15 popular types of biscuits, along with aspects of their consumption such as 'dunkability' and crumb dispersal."
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The Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation??? BITE? lololololol, Love it.
Distracted UNited Kingdomers
DUNKERS?:eek::D
Why not just put labels on the packages like cigarettes have?
The Surgeon General has determined that dunking your biscuit can cause bodily injuries/is hazardous to your health.
There is a sinister way you can read that sentence....I'll pass on the joke?:eek:
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Oreos and milk...the perfect snack! And, I have never been injured by either one of them! :D
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