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Two Pinches of Negligence: Magazine Causes Poisonings Due to Typo in Apple Cake Recipe

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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30 thoughts on “Two Pinches of Negligence: Magazine Causes Poisonings Due to Typo in Apple Cake Recipe”

  1. “As for that V.P. talk all the time, Iā€™ll tell you, I still canā€™t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day?”

    Sarah Palin

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    Yea, she’s a keeper.

  2. If my earlier comment ever makes it out of “awaiting moderation” I could correct a misspelling. It should be inexperienced not unexperienced.

  3. In “my country”?

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    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.

  4. CRO: YA, I KNOW THIS PALIN THING BOTHERS YOU MUCH ‘CAUSE IN YOUR COUNTRY WOMAN ARE PROPERTY.

  5. 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.

  6. And hey, if she doesn’t win look at the bright side.

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    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.

  7. 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.

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    Should have known you guys would bring in a ringer.

  8. ‘That recipe sounds like some of the stuff we ate in college!’

    ****

    Were you reading ‘High Times’ then, too?

  10. “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.

  11. Palin, former beauty queen and PTA mom, with her all of a year and a half experience as Govenor of Alaska.

    What a pick.

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    Dan Quayle in a dress.

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  16. IL:

    I will not tolerate disparaging comments of tenured aging individuals — it cuts too close to home.

    JT

  19. Damn, you mean you don’t use household sponges in the sponge cake? I thought that tasted a little strange.

  20. 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.

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