For those of you that thought you only had to worry about eating one too many poppy seed bagels before your next company drug test, check out this report from Bloomberg News:
More than 200 restaurants in the southern Chinese province of Guizhou were closed after they were found to be spiking their food with opium poppies, the South China Morning Post said, citing provincial officials.
Acting on tip-offs, Chinese police inspected 2,640 restaurants, seizing 3.2 kilograms (7 pounds) of poppy seed and 1.7 kilograms of poppy shells, the Hong Kong-based English- language newspaper reported...
...``Local people are not aware of the harm they will do to their health,'' provincial drug-control official Zhang Xing was quoted as saying. Eaters of poppy-spiked food can become addicted, the Post said.
And you thought the food from your local Chinese takeout was addictive!
Chow Fun indeed!
Oh those nitwits. You'd have to ingest a quarter acre of properly harvested poppy drippins every day to maintain any kind of 'habit'.
Although, the tea brewed from the shells is quite nice.
Posted by: Dr. Biggles | June 18, 2004 at 05:33 PM