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Don’t Eat These Behind The Wheel

24 July 2009 No Comment posted by Kin

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Insurance.com released its list of the 10 most dangerous foods to eat while driving.  While driving distractions these days focus one talking and texting on a mobile device, it’s easy to overlook food as a distraction.

Here’s the top ten breakdown from the site:

  1. Coffee – Even in cups with travel lids, somehow the liquid finds its way out of the opening each time you hit a bump.
  2. Hot soup – Many people drink it like coffee and run the same risks.
  3. Tacos – Any food that can disassemble itself will leave your car looking like a salad bar.
  4. Chili Dogs – The potential for drips and slops down the front of clothing is significant.
  5. Hamburgers – From the grease of the burger to ketchup and mustard, it could all end up on your hands, your clothes, and the steering wheel.
  6. Barbecued food – Ditto. The sauce may be great, but if you have to lick your fingers, the sauce will end up on whatever you touch – and that wheel will be tough to grip.
  7. Fried chicken – Another food that leaves you with greasy hands, which means constantly wiping them on something, even if it’s your shirt.
  8. Jelly donuts – Have you eaten a jelly donut without some of the center oozing out? It’s simply not possible.
  9. Soft drinks – Not only are they subject to spills, but also the carbonated kind can fizz as you’re drinking if you make sudden movements, and most of us remember cola fizz in the nose from childhood. It isn’t any more pleasant now.
  10. Chocolate – Like greasy foods, chocolate coats the fingers as it melts, leaving its mark anywhere you touch. As you try to clean it off the steering wheel you’re likely to end up swerving.

I didn’t see pizza on the list, so I guess it’s semi-safe to install one of these in-car pizza ovens.  Nothing like steaming hot pizza on the road.

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