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Snake found in broccoli

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A woman opened a bag of broccoli and found a live snake.

Tina Cosby was preparing tea for her family when she spotted the foot-long grey and black snake curled around the veg.

According to The Sun she said: "I took out the bag and put it on my kitchen worktop while I untied it.

"I was about to put my hand in to pull out the broccoli when I suddenly saw this snake inside. Its beady eyes opened and I threw a fit. It was staring at me and its little tongue was poking in and out.

"I was shaking and so terrified that I could feel my heart racing. I had to have a cup of tea to calm down - and then I felt sick."
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I thought snakes were on planes.

Do snakes have eyelids, or at least ones that can close? I thought they were transparent so she couldn't have seen it open it's eyes.
 
I have never liked broccoli and now I have another reason not to like it.
I do like snakes though....
 
You know how I knew snakes have no eyelids? This is such a cool story:

I took my copy of The Quark and The Jaguar to TAM4 with the express purpose of getting it signed by Murray Gell-Mann.

When I gave it to him to sign, he looked at the cover and said "this is the UK edition, yes?". I confirmed that it was and he said "ah, there's an error in here then".

He flipped immediately to the exact page he was looking for (no browsing required, thanks), and pointed to a sentence which ended with an analogy about a serpent opening its eyes. He underlined the sentence and said "of course, serpents don't have eyelids, I made a mistake".

What a great man.
 
Man, that's taking your organic food a little far isn't it? Processed food may have rat hair in it, but at least the rest of the rat isn't still connected to it with nose a-twitchin'. I'll stick with my frozen Birds-Eye Broccoli Florets, thank you very much.
 
tkingdoll said:
You know how I knew snakes have no eyelids? This is such a cool story:

I took my copy of The Quark and The Jaguar to TAM4 with the express purpose of getting it signed by Murray Gell-Mann.

When I gave it to him to sign, he looked at the cover and said "this is the UK edition, yes?". I confirmed that it was and he said "ah, there's an error in here then".

He flipped immediately to the exact page he was looking for (no browsing required, thanks), and pointed to a sentence which ended with an analogy about a serpent opening its eyes. He underlined the sentence and said "of course, serpents don't have eyelids, I made a mistake".

What a great man.
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That is a cool story.
 
Snakes actually have eyelids. They are just "fused", and transparent.
 
Deetee said:
Probably just it's nictitating membrane.
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Snakes don't have that. I know from handling 100s of the charming things and keeping them as pets, but go ahead and check the Wiki article you posted; snakes are not listed. Now, OTHER types of reptiles do have nictitating membranes, but not snakes.

BTW, I would be thrilled to receive a snake with my broccoli. Whenever I am out on a walk and encounter a snake, I generally try to catch it and bring it home to turn it loose in my garden. I have even captured rattlesnakes at campgrounds, and carried them off to safety so the silly humans would not kill them. Snakes are very cool.
 
Of course, I had to be eating broccoli as I was reading this thread. I still have not recovered from the trauma of finding an monstrous caterpillar in my cauliflower when I was a child.
By the way, the story of how my mother got a phobia of snakes involves my mother alone in her research lab, and a large snake that escaped from the lab above.
 
Tanja said:
Of course, I had to be eating broccoli as I was reading this thread. I still have not recovered from the trauma of finding an monstrous caterpillar in my cauliflower when I was a child.
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There's only one thing worse: Finding half a caterpillar in your cauliflower....
 
CFLarsen said:
There's only one thing worse: Finding half a caterpillar in your cauliflower....
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Even worse. The caterpillar was white and by the time I realised it was a chunky caterpillar rather than a chunk of cauliflower it was stuck on my fork. :eye-poppi
 
Broccoli is a weird veggie.

It doesn't taste of much, it looks...well, strange....but there's not much bad to be said about it.

Except when you are Elder Bush, of course... ;)
 
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