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The unusual thing about that Asda takeaway range is that it doesn’t tell you the ingredients anyway, so I guess we have to take it on trust they aren’t trying to poison us:)
Apparently you can buy seaweed from Asda deli counters as a side dish and this is why the notice is there. I can’t swear it’s not in anything else from the deli given that I don’t work there, but in my personal opinion (which you accept on your own risk) Asda wouldn’t be so stupid as to put hidden seaweed in their dishes after going to the trouble of putting “don’t microwave seaweed” on so many of their dishes in the standard legal stupidity of worrying everyone about nothing just in case some poorly trained sprog puts seaweed in the microwavable container then sticks the microwave instructions on it. Asda (Walmart) will be able to stand up in court and go “BUT WE TOLD YOU NOT TO MICROWAVE SEAWEED!” and hopefully the judge will go “that’s not good enough, as you put microwave instructions in it making it look like it can be microwaved” resulting in the lawyer being fired and all the “warning, may contain nuts” notices being removed from the cashew nut packets.
Alternately, may result in the hiring of more lawyers and “seaweed is a lethal poison” being painted across the British Isles in letters that can be seen from space, as well as “seaweed, just say no!” leaflets being given to every shopper as a mandatory condition of access, Asda being awarded the nobel prize in health and safety and the collapse of the entire ocean current system due to being overrun by seaweed, which can now only be removed by classified level government biochemical warfare specialists.
yes, why not?
I fear it will remain one of life’s mysteries.
I came across this page, where a reason is given: http://www.aqa.63336.com/brilliant_answers/2009/12/why_should_i_not_microwave_seaweed.htm
The unusual thing about that Asda takeaway range is that it doesn’t tell you the ingredients anyway, so I guess we have to take it on trust they aren’t trying to poison us:)
Apparently you can buy seaweed from Asda deli counters as a side dish and this is why the notice is there. I can’t swear it’s not in anything else from the deli given that I don’t work there, but in my personal opinion (which you accept on your own risk) Asda wouldn’t be so stupid as to put hidden seaweed in their dishes after going to the trouble of putting “don’t microwave seaweed” on so many of their dishes in the standard legal stupidity of worrying everyone about nothing just in case some poorly trained sprog puts seaweed in the microwavable container then sticks the microwave instructions on it. Asda (Walmart) will be able to stand up in court and go “BUT WE TOLD YOU NOT TO MICROWAVE SEAWEED!” and hopefully the judge will go “that’s not good enough, as you put microwave instructions in it making it look like it can be microwaved” resulting in the lawyer being fired and all the “warning, may contain nuts” notices being removed from the cashew nut packets.
Alternately, may result in the hiring of more lawyers and “seaweed is a lethal poison” being painted across the British Isles in letters that can be seen from space, as well as “seaweed, just say no!” leaflets being given to every shopper as a mandatory condition of access, Asda being awarded the nobel prize in health and safety and the collapse of the entire ocean current system due to being overrun by seaweed, which can now only be removed by classified level government biochemical warfare specialists.
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