Talk about making a meal of it.
An English woman was left in considerable pain after dislocating her jaw while trying to munch on a triple decker burger.
Nicola Peate seemingly bit off more than she could chew in a Liverpool restaurant and the triple-patty got the better of the diner.
The 25-year-old had to have her jaw moved back into place by medics, though her fiancée did finish the remainder of the ‘Kids in America Burger’, containing pretzels and candied bacon, before the pair made their way home – oblivious to the seriousness of the injury.
“I didn’t think I’d dislocated it – you don’t expect it to happen eating a burger! But I tried to eat it with a knife and fork and couldn’t. I couldn’t open my mouth fully,” she told The Mirror.
“It felt like I had cramp in my tongue, then I started to get an ear ache and a headache. The next morning I woke up and felt really, really ill. The whole side of my head was hurting.”
The Emergency Department at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital confirmed her fears and a doctor quickly manipulated her jaw back into place using his thumbs. Nice.
Let that be a lesson to all you hungry dare-devils out there.
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