Posted: November 22nd, 2007 - 6:53pm by Ben Chapman

Couple of fun ones tonight, first one is a pretty sweet video about quick cooking a turkey (they do mention a thermometer, but I don't see it being used).



A Thermite Thanksgiving


Second one is a nice food safety story about what happens when you eat your hair.  Here's a preview picture (this was removed from an 18-year-old girl).

from a New England Journal of Medicine article covered on CNN:

She complained of a five-month history of pain and swelling in her abdomen, vomiting after eating and a 40-pound weight loss.
After a scan of the woman's abdomen showed a large mass, doctors lowered a scope through her esophagus.
"On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years -- a condition called trichophagia," the authors of the article wrote.

My favourite part of the article is:

A year later, the pain and vomiting were gone, the patient had regained 20 pounds "and reports that she has stopped eating her hair."

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