Always read the label
When purchasing herbal tea from the health food shop, I have discovered it is imperative to read the contents and instructions of said tea before opening.

That way you won't do as I did this weekend and imbibe 7 cups of something that is essentially liquid laxative and has a warning on the packet stating 'Do not drink more than one cup in any 24 hour period.'

It serves me right for having set foot in a health food shop in the first place and goes some way to explain why Gillian McKeith has such a constant expression of sour faced disgust on her raddled old mush...
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Mon 31 Mar 2008, 23:58, 4 replies)

Similarly
things like dried apricots and prunes should have a health warning on the packet. A mate and I once munched our way through a packet of each on a motorway journey to London. We had to make an emergency pit stop at Keele services to deposit our shifting payloads. Parked in the disabled spaces at the door and ran in, it was that urgent!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 9:30, closed)

I had some of that herbal tea once
I thought it was actually quite nice, like...


/Apologies, anyone who hasn't come into contact with someone from Ashington may not get that...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 1 Apr 2008, 11:42, closed)

DG
Mr BobFossil is actually from very near there (Morpeth), and his mother works in Ashington.

I don't get your reference though...
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 12:02, closed)

^
Having just gazzed BobFossil with the reference, for anyone else wondering, the word herbal, when pronounced with a full Ashingtonian-esque pit drawl sounds a bit like the word 'horrible'...

/Apologies again.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 1 Apr 2008, 12:27, closed)