Coca-Cola is Offering Free Cases of Coke for Circulating an Email about the Product-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: An email claims that if you’ll send a copy of it to as many people as you can, everybody on the list will receive four free cases of Coca-Cola. The Truth: It’s not true. It’s not …
Coke will give you free cans of soda for forwarding an email-Fiction! Read More »
Bananas from Costa Rica Infected with Flesh Eating Bacteria-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: People are warned by this email not to buy or eat bananas for three weeks because of the discovery that they can carry the dreaded flesh-eating bacteria. The story says that scientists have discovered the bacteria on bananas from Costa Rica, but …
Bananas from Costa Rica infected with flesh eating bacteria-Fiction! Read More »
Wheat is toxic because farmers routinely apply Roundup to crops days before harvest to dry down or kill the plants.
The Many Uses of Coke in Addition to Drinking It-Truth! & Fiction! Summary of eRumor: There are several versions of emails circulating on the Internet about Coca-Cola. Some criticize it from a nutritional and health standpoint. Others, such as the one below, depict it as a kind of cleaning fluid that people drink …
A Restaurant Served a Steak Contaminated with Human Urine-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: This alleges that a woman got sick after eating at a restaurant in and later tests on the steak revealed it was contaminated with human urine. The writer of the email says that there is a lawsuit as well as DNA …
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Cockroach Eggs Are Incubating In People’s Mouths-Fiction! Summary of eRumor: There are several different versions of stories about people who accidentally got infested with roach eggs in their mouths or salivary glands, then experienced a disgusting mouthful of hatched roaches. Some versions say a person got infected with the eggs by eating contaminated …
A viral email claims that an experiment at a science fair proved that water that has been heated with a microwave oven kills plants. The eRumor also alleged that eating microwaved foods leads to brain damage and other serious health conditions.
Are Burger Kings, Popeye’s Chicken and other fast food outlets on military bases closed because of a minimum wage mandate set by the Obama Administration?
A Facebook post warns that instant noodles contain a wax coating that can cause cancer and requires up to two days for the body to digest.
You Can Tell How Fresh the Bread is By the Color of the Twist or Plastic Tab Used to Hold it Closed-Truth! Summary of eRumor: This email says that if you want to know how fresh the bread is in your grocery store, look at the tie that is holding the wrapper closed. Bread …
The twist ties on loaves of bread tell how fresh they are-Truth! Read More »
