Michelle Collins described becoming ‘violently unwell’ after eating daffodils.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Good Morning Britain, the actress who portrayed Cindy Beale in EastEnders recounted the hazardous misstep.
Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard, the show’s hosts, were discussing how M&S was called out on social media for putting daffodils in a place where they may be mistaken for spring onions and eaten.
While Ben was originally perplexed that someone might confuse the flowers for the veggie, Michelle had live evidence.
She stated that she had been making culinary videos during lockdown and had decided to create a stir fry using spring onions.
‘I brought home what I thought was a spring onion, cooked it, chopped it up, put it in the wok, had a few tastes and next thing I was running to the loo.
‘I was violently, violently sick.’
Many thought he was ‘totally insane,’ she claimed, but ‘when you put them together, they seem similar.’
Lycorine, a poisonous substance found in all sections of the daffodil, can induce symptoms such as stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhoea.
Botanist James Wong, who pointed out Marks and Spencer’s risky blunder on Twitter, noted in his post that the blossoms are ‘packed with minute crystals, so biting into one is like swallowing a box of tiny needles.
‘Properly nasty.’
The retailer has subsequently apologised, calling the flower placement a “real error.”
Michelle appeared on the show to advocate for free school lunches for all students in the UK, describing how her mother did not want her children to eat free meals because of the shame associated with them.
Her mother worked three jobs and “truly suffered,” but the children would have had to wait in a separate line for a free dinner, which she described as “humiliating.”
Michelle argued further that she had heard from teachers that youngsters who do not have a nutritious lunchtime meal have low focus levels and may even fall asleep in the afternoon.
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