Physicians create a taxonomy of bread-bag fasteners that have been lodged in people’s colons

[pokerfan]

An unrecognized scourge has been lurking in our kitchens. It seems that each bag of bread has been fastened by a tiny little plastic chip of death, otherwise known as a bread clip. These are little loose pieces of plastic that fall off the bag, drop into food, and are sometimes accidentally ingested. That's when doctors come in — they have to yank the bread clip out of body's ungodly regions. Fortunately, physicians banded together and studied the kind of bread tags available, assigning each a name and family.





http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/09/23/after-one-colon-embedded-bread-clip-too-many-doctors-provide-design-analysis-call-for-reform

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[MerryBlooms]

1. Schoolhouse Rock: Bread Clip! n/t

[surrealAmerican]

2. I love the phylogeny chart.

I never knew two-sided fasteners existed. They must be quite rare.

[pokerfan]

3. I will never look at a bread bag fastener the same way again (nt)

[ElboRuum]

4. Toxodenta appears to be the most evolved...

...having developed multiple hooks for facility in grabbing the colon wall.

[BiggJawn]

5. People are eating these?

Or are they ""Falling" on top of them?

[kentauros]

6. That's what I want to know, too!

How can they swallow these things without choking in the first place? :shrug:

[pokerfan]

7. It was a million-to-one shot, doc!

Fusilli Jerry (Seinfeld)