Now this could make for an interesting tort case — literally. Ok, it was technically an apple cake not a torte but liability is likely to follow a bizarre accident over a typo in a published recipe in Stockholm, Sweden. Instead of calling for two pinches of nutmeg, a type in the cooking magazine Matmagasinet called for “20 nutmeg nuts” resulting in at least four poison cases.
The affected people complained of mild symptoms of dizziness and headaches, but have recovered. The magazine immediately sent out 50,000 letters to subscribers to warn that “high doses of nutmeg can cause poisoning symptoms.”
It is not clear if other Swedes were laid low by the apple cake, but they may want to be extra careful on specificity in the sponge cake and, of course, the venerable torte.
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Holey cr*p, surely somebody can figure out that 20 nutmeg nuts might be a tad too much. Not even considering how much they cost.
Damn, you mean you don’t use household sponges in the sponge cake? I thought that tasted a little strange.
And were a little chewey…
Is there a chance that the Food section is where aging copy editors with tenure go to spend the remainder of their career?
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Celebrity-chef39s-recipe–the.4353066.jp
IL:
I will not tolerate disparaging comments of tenured aging individuals — it cuts too close to home.
JT
JT,
Just remember: Tenured professors never retire, they just fade away.
And people give me crap for my fondness for Entenmanns.
http://entenmanns.gwbakeries.com/index.cfm.
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Gesundheit
Palin, former beauty queen and PTA mom, with her all of a year and a half experience as Govenor of Alaska.
What a pick.
Dan Quayle in a dress.
“liability is likely to follow a bizarre accident over a typo in a published recipe”
The problem with modern tort law is that it fails to take into consideration the idiocy of the potential plaintiffs.
That recipe sounds like some of the stuff we ate in college!
‘That recipe sounds like some of the stuff we ate in college!’
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Were you reading ‘High Times’ then, too?
Yea Percy, what candidate you folks have got there in Palin.
What with her all of 20 months of experience as Governor of the the most sparsely populated and detached state in the nation, her BA in Journalism from the University of Idaho, and her vast experience on the Wasilla city council and PTA.
Should have known you guys would bring in a ringer.
And hey, if she doesn’t win look at the bright side.
She’s always got the annual Wasilla Bake sale and contest to look forward to, where her 20 nut nutmeg pie is sure to take home the blue ribbon this fall.
Patty C,
We were too busy drinking to worry about reading High Times.
Percy,
Your forgot to mention that McCain’s VP pick is currently under investigation for ordering the firing of a state trooper who just happened to be her ex-brother-in-law who had just gone through a messy divorce with Palin’s sister. http://www.adn.com/politics/story/468174.html
After reading that article, I understand why McCain picked her. She was as dirty as he was. She was a big oil lover and pro-life and unsure if global warming wss caused by human activity.http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/palin-corruption-investigation/. With a VP pick like this who is a an old buddy to Sen. Stevens,the right’s new Mr. Clean, McCain shows his usual poor lack of judgment.
You are right Cro Magnum about her lack of experience. How the Republicans can claim Obama is unexperienced, when the PTA lady would be one heartbeat away from the Presidency is amazing. Luckily, the American people will see through McCains’s weak attempt to put a crooked woman politician on the ticket.
CRO: YA, I KNOW THIS PALIN THING BOTHERS YOU MUCH ‘CAUSE IN YOUR COUNTRY WOMAN ARE PROPERTY.
In “my country”?
No, I don’t live in Alabama.
As for Palin “bothering” me, it should be bothering everyone at the notion of a guy who’s already at the age of senility picking a woman as a standby who by her own admission had no clue what the job of Vice president entails.
The notion of sending this “soccer mom” to meet with kings, presidents and parliments should bother all Americans to no end.
She is a rube. A woman barely qualified to operate a computer. She is second rate at everything she’s ever done, and picking her as a possible replacment for the President of the United States demonstrates the full onset of John McCains descent into dementia.
If my earlier comment ever makes it out of “awaiting moderation” I could correct a misspelling. It should be inexperienced not unexperienced.
“As for that V.P. talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day?”
Sarah Palin
Yea, she’s a keeper.
Cro Magnum,
This VP pick also believes that creationism should be taught in public schools. I smell a radical religous right rat here. I am officially starting the rumor that the radical religous right accepted McCain for the quid pro quo of being able to choose the VP. And who better for the revs to pick, but a creationism, oil drilling advocate who doesn’t believe that human activity causes global warming!
Rafflaw said.
Cro Magnum,
This VP pick also believes that creationism should be taught in public schools. I smell a radical religous right rat here.
Your nose doesn’t fail you either. Palin is an “Evangelical Christian”, which represents the most dull witted membership of any church world wide save maybe radical muslims (terrorists).
Evangelical Christianity ignores science, logic, reason, and even most Christian concepts in favor of some unnatural absorition with events from the Torah.
John Ashcroft, the guy who decided the statue of blind justice was too pornographic so he had it covered with a sheet, was also an evangelical. In fact, he was a Pentacostal, the craziest of the evangelicals, who think they can speak in tongues because God enters their bodies in meetings. I have no problem mind you with people accepting such primitive beliefs but I do have a problem putting such a person in charge of 7500 Nuclear Missles.
Sara Palin, is the worst possible choice McCain could have made. She is the Harriet Myers of the 08 election.
The question now is, are these so called “Hilary supporters” smart enough to see through this obvious capitulation to them to try and woo their votes, or will they eat it up, hook, line and sinker?
John Ashcroft would actually be a BETTER pick than this lady. He has at least studied law. What a joke. Republican women should feel insulted.
True. At least he had the sense to refuse to authorize the Bush domestic spying program, even when they tried to trick him while he was sick.
And he could pound out a great rendition of “let the Eagle Soar”.
“A WONDERFUL MOTHER OF FIVE, A WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO A DOWNS SYNDROME BABY INSTEAD OF ABORTING IT, A WOMAN WHO HAS FOUGHT CORRUPTION, A WOMAN WHO USE TO GET UP AT 3:00 AM TO HUNT MOOSE,”
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percy,
I’m not cetain I would site these as resons to endorse a candidate, except for her being a wonderful mother. Congratulating her for failing to abort a child who has downs syndrome is insulting. If by fighting corruption you mean “is in the middle of a corruption scandal” that’s true, but not helpful. And just getting up at 3 a.m. to go kill a moose may or may not constitue a ringing endorsement. If she got up to hunt and actually used the meat to feed family, friends or the poor I’m all for it. If she did it for a head on the wall, not so much.
I think the whole idea of voting for any candidate based on race, ethnicity, gender etc. is both stupid and dangerous. One look at the bush administration should cure everyone of that thought. It’s really one of the most ethnically, racially and gender diverse crowds we’ve ever seen in the whitehouse. Each person, be they white, black, Hispanic, male or female, gay or straight etc. shares a common character–evil.
So this woman isn’t voting for another woman because she’s a woman. I’m quite certain I’m not alone in feeling that way.
P.S. I don’t know what “bathtub buddy hookers” are but it was funny to read.
Jill,
I’ll take that woman’s getting up at 3:00 to hunt moose over Dick Cheney’s style of “hunting” any day.
I’m with you, Gyges. Getting out of your SUV to shoot at just released animals is barbaric and doesn’t constitue hunting, just wanton. lazy slaughter.
Here, this is on Sara Palin. It’s hysterical. We could all use a good laugh! (From Red State Update.)
Hey Jill.
You know what another hysterical thing about Sarah Palin is?
Her resume.
After seeing her assult rifle picture I think she was chosen to appeal to 1. conservative men, 2. conservative women and 3. liberal activists (she apparently tried to shoot a cop):)