More than half of all Britons have been injured by their biscuits while having morning tea. 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 revealed...
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....
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....
The custard cream biscuit was found to be the worse offender...
More of the gruesome details at
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The New Shelton wet/dry.
Ha! They used this bit on "Wait, Wait" this week-end. Heh.
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