2020 Pending Review
Historic DA - Food Stuffed
(March 1809, London) Silverware is used daily as a necessity during meals. Obviously, these tools are used to help people eat, and not to be eaten.
However, John Cummings believed knives to actually be edible. When he saw a circus sword swallower put a knife in his mouth, he genuinely thought you could eat knives. John tasted a knife afterwards, and for some reason loved it.
John kept consuming knives each day. On one occasion, he ate 4 knives and quickly passed 3 with no ill-health. He later swallowed 14 knives and after some days with abdominal pain he passed all of them. He finally swallowed 20 knives and a case but after a few days he had only passed the case.
He continued this odd hobby for FOUR YEARS. When Cummings time finally came coming, doctors found a knife blade and spring were found in his intestines, and between 30 to 40 fragments of metal, wood, and horn in his stomach.
What the actual Hell.
Submitted on 12/19/2020
Submitted by:
Hugh D
Reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539548/