Recipes: November 2003 Archives

Eat Bagels At Your Own Risk

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So I was watching my new favourite TV show (since Angel has gotten so dorky and boring) Mythbusters
on the Discovery Channel. It is a show in which these two smart, geeky guys attempt to prove or dissprove urban legends by recreating them. In last's nights epsiode they ate a whole bunch of poppy seed bagels and lemon poppy seed cake to see if it would cause a false positive on urine sample drug tests. To everyone's surprise (at least mine) it did.

OK, now if this is true, I find this scary. My husband works a job that administers random urine drug tests, and according to their findings, he may very well eat one of my yummy homeade lemon poppy seed shortbread cookies, come out positive and get fired. This really seems not right.

I am curious if companies who rely on random drug testing realise the potential for false positives and if the concept is truly to deter drug use rather than to prove drug use?

In the meantime, this is a recipe for Lemon Poppy Seed Shortbread Cookies which I cannot eat anymore because of my diet. Bummer. This is not my exact recipe which is still packed away somewhere, but very similar. Enjoy and stay away from random drug tests.


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