Fruit-related chemical burns

[compilerbitch]

Someone in the next-door office brought in a large quantity of fresh limes from his garden. (Yes, it's the middle of winter, but this is California, so I'm not going to start caring that you're all cold and moany now, am I?)

I took a couple.

They looked really nice.

They smelled really nice.

I ate one of them.

I now have chemical burns inside my mouth.

*is stupid*

Comments

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

owwwwww! *hugs*

[redbird]

My sympathy.

I wouldn't call eating one stupid; I probably wouldn't do it myself, because I don't like that much sour all by itself, but julian_tiger comes to no harm from the bits of lime pulp we let him have.

[darcydodo]

Why chemical burns? I presume you don't just mean something from the fruit being so acidic, do you?

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was just the citric acid, I think. It basically stripped all the mucous off the lining of my mouth, and left a strip about an inch long along the inside edge of the gum on the lower left side of my mouth feeling quite damaged. It's still sore now, several hours later.

I had a weird stomach ache for a while earlier too.

It was clearly a lime's lime. I should be hardier to that kind of thing, being a limey and all.

[dave-t-lurker.livejournal.com]

ow! *hug*

Now we know the truth, the Alien was really a citrus fruit.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Wow. Reserve them for putting in gin ;)

[arrhythmia.livejournal.com]

Cue 'stupid limey!' jokes from coworkers?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I discovered a couple of years ago that if you cut a kiwifruit in two, leave it for fifteen minutes, and then eat it, it'll make your lips bleed. There's strong stuff in those fruit.

[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. My sympathies.

o/~ Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet / But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat ~/o