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Exploding rhubarb chutney wrecks retirement flat
The Telegraph ^
| 7/5/2013
| Hayley Dixon
Posted on 07/05/2013 2:11:15 PM PDT by markomalley
The homemade preserve blew up in the fridge, ripping the door off of its hinges and rocking Margaret Goodwin’s flat as she lay asleep at 7am in the morning.
When she went to see what the "bomb" was she found that her family photographs has been smashed by the fridge door as it was flung across the kitchen, knocking a chunk from the wall.
The explosion had also temporarily lifted the ceiling, leaving cracks in the top of the wall, living room and porch, and blew the casing off an extractor fan.
The rhubarb chutney, a gift from a friend, had exploded when gas fermented and built up inside the glass jar. "If I had been standing in the way, it would probably have killed me" said Mrs Goodwin.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Food; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: fermentation; napl; rhubarbchutney
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Can you imagine the damage that would have been done had the same thing happened after it had been consumed? Talking about lighting f*rts!
To: markomalley
lighting f*rtsProlly would backfire and blow yer head clean off.
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:13:18 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(barry your mouth is writing checks your ass cant cash)
To: markomalley
GOSH! I hope this doesn’t give the Jihader’s any ideas. On the other hand though I might invest in Rhubarb, and canning.
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:18:40 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: markomalley
Exploding rhubarb chutney wrecks retirement flat...Man. I just hate it when that happens.
To: markomalley
I hate when that happens.
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:31:47 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: markomalley
It must not have been sterilized properly.
If it had not exploded, and they had tried to consume it, the food poisoning could have made them very ill or killed them.
Either way, they were lucky. This could have come out much worse.
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:32:05 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: markomalley
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:33:17 PM PDT
by
bgill
(This reply was mined before it was posted.)
To: markomalley
I saw this happen to home made sauerkraut in one of those 1.5 ga pickle jars in my friends basement LOL
What a stinky mess.
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:33:37 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: markomalley
Could have been worse. The penguin on the Telly might have blown up.
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:34:10 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: markomalley
The Horror!
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:34:30 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:37:13 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(I'd give up chocolate but I'm no quitter)
To: TADSLOS
oh, intercourse the penguin!
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:58:42 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:59:17 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: TADSLOS
“...and now Radio Four will explode.”
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posted on
07/05/2013 2:59:32 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: markomalley
This happened once when Lena’s favorite lutefisk canning recipe went very wrong and destroyed the town of Lost Overshoe, MN.
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:08:53 PM PDT
by
TaMoDee
( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2013! Geaux, Pack, Geaux!)
To: markomalley
Just great. Now Homeland Security is going to label rhubarb a WMD.
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:13:04 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
To: TaMoDee
Two daughters doing dishes in a hurry. One covered broilere with the remains of chicken dinner.
Slipped full and unwashed into the pantry to be washed later. In April.
August. One exploded broiler pan....all over the pantry.
You cannot begin to imagine the odor.
I think my relationship with the girls went downhill from there.
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:21:26 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
To: rockinqsranch
Now that would put the Yorkshire rhubarb triangle (Wakefield, Bradford & Leeds)on the map!!
To: bigheadfred
Prolly would backfire and blow yer head clean off.
Yea, but thankfully God provided us with gas escape holes.........
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posted on
07/05/2013 3:23:33 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I ain't no cracker, I'm a white a$$ soda biscuit...)
To: rockinqsranch
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_Triangle
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