green bits on crisps

rok

for the crisps/tayto eaters out there ...
when you're eating a bag of crisps and one has a green bit on it, do you eat it or put it to one side?
when I was a kid the consensus was that the green ones were 'unsafe' but I don't know of any bad side affects!

Dinxminx

I eat them. I like to live dangerously.

Dizzyblonde

Green bits of potatoes are said to be toxic but I don't think eating one green crisp would make you sick.
I eat around the green bit rather than waste the whole crisp!!

star-pants

Toxic really?... I always thought it was just where the skin hadn't been removed properly.
Though if it's rather green I won't eat that bit

Dave!

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

Green bits of potatoes are said to be toxic but I don't think eating one green crisp would make you sick.
I eat around the green bit rather than waste the whole crisp!!

LOL! Now that's getting the most out of your money

I chuck them away. Occassionally I give them to a homeless person. It's the least I could do.

Statso

Nope would throw that crisp away, same with a chip, if theres one of those black lumps on the chip it gets thrown away! Ugh makes me feel sick just thinking about eating one of them..

Cathmandooo

Hah I eat around the green bit too, dont like to waste crisps

Havent seen many recently though!! GM crisps

uglyjohn

im fairly sure the green bits are toxic/poisonous......not bothered finding more info but i read something about it ages ago.

the thing is you need to eat stupid amounts(eg a couple of kgs) of the green stuff before it kills you so i wouldnt worry about one crisp.

Dizzyblonde

They can make you quite sick - the green colour is caused by exposure to light so potatoes need to be kept in a dark place.

http://www.foodscience.com.au/spuds.htm

Rob_l

has anyone ever got sick from eating them?

themadchef

Not sure if it's an old wives tale but i heard that eating green potatoes when in the early stages of pregnancy was dangerous....i never asked why though. Anyone else hear that?

ScumLord

uglyjohn wrote: »

im fairly sure the green bits are toxic/poisonous......not bothered finding more info but i read something about it ages ago.

Ye shower of lillypants, wolf them into you, sure they'll do you no harm. You might even get a slight buzz of them.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Normally if I can be bothered I eat around 'em. If I can't be bothered then I usually just shovel them into me mouth without looking

uglyjohn

ScumLord wrote: »

Ye shower of lillypants, wolf them into you, sure they'll do you no harm. You might even get a slight buzz of them.

hey!!!! i eat them! why is my manhood being challenged?

here is the snopes page.

http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/potato.asp

healthy adult needs to ingest about 4.5 pounds in one sitting. basically you cant poison yourself unless you are really trying to......and if scumlord invites anyone out for a night on the spuds i'd suggest giving it a miss, there are easier ways to get a slight buzz that dont involve vomiting, diarrhea, and paralysis of the central nervous system.

Rhiannon14

Never knew they were toxic, I just ate around the green bits cause they look icky-lol. But a brown spot on a chip, sure it's just a bruise!

Maple

eat them. you'd want to eat a million billion of them before they'd do you any harm.

copacetic

uglyjohn wrote: »

hey!!!! i eat them! why is my manhood being challenged?

possibly because you appear to be scared of a crisp?

rossie1977

holy sh*t, green bits on potatoes are toxic and have been known to cause death :eek:

thanks for that Dizzyblonde, never will i look at a spud the same again

RxQueen

i eat them, never thought of them being dangerous before !! hahha made me laugh tho,, "hay how did you end up in hospital , i ate a green crisp!!

uglyjohn

copacetic wrote: »

possibly because you appear to be scared of a crisp?

uglyjohn wrote: »

hey!!!! i eat them! why is my manhood being challenged?

as i said....i eat them, they are good. prefer the shriveled black ones though.

Sam Vimes

Rob_l wrote: »

has anyone ever got sick from eating them?

i don't scrutinise my crisps very closely so i've never even noticed these green bits. i'd say its safe to assume i've eaten a great number of them and i'm still alive

seamus

The guy who first brought potatoes to Britain (it wasn't Raleigh) was almost lynched because people thought he was trying to poison them. The plant is a member of the nightshade family and the skin of very old potatoes can kill (in sufficient quantities).

Rob_l

Commander Vimes wrote: »

i don't scrutinise my crisps very closely so i've never even noticed these green bits. i'd say its safe to assume i've eaten a great number of them and i'm still alive

Me too, just wondering is anyone blaming crisps on some near death experiences

Terry

It's just a bit of chlorophyll.

Lands Leaving

Its potato blight, colorado beetles and some plague. Crisp eating is a perilous pursuit.

Gekko

I was thinking about asking the same thing on here the other day!

I don't eat them...but then I'm a fussy git

2 stroke

You would have to eat a lot of green potato to kill yourself or even to be very unwell. However I would like to ask the question, Do you eat green potato and suffer migrane?

Papergirl 1

Ah now I'm dying for a packet of salt & vinegar hunky doreys......funny cos your nearly always gauranteed to get a green crisp in a bag of them!!

smelltheglove

cant believe i just seen this thread i was just talkin to one of the guys in here about that,Im on the nightshift in here and i got meself a nice packet of tayto and had to pick at least 3 green chrisps out and thats the ones i seen........oh my god im gonna diiiiieeee!!!! So to answer your question i just chuck them in the bin

rok

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

They can make you quite sick - the green colour is caused by exposure to light so potatoes need to be kept in a dark place.

http://www.foodscience.com.au/spuds.htm

jaysus I used to eat around the green bits too instead of wasting the precious crisp but after reading that I think I'll have change my tayto habit

leninbenjamin

actually the green bits are small rents in the space time continuum. they look green because inside this anomaly time goes backwards... if you eat enough of them they can actually help reverse the aging cycle.