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Doctors Classify Bread Clips In Hopes Of Developing A More Safely Digestible One

September 22, 2011 / bread, classification, dangerous, eating things, i got up and made a foldover pb&j at like 3 in the morning last night, learning by looking, of course you are, oh did we cure cancer already?, plastic, sandwiches, taxonomy, what in the, you've got to be kidding me

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This is a classification of bread clips because doctors contributing to the British Medical Journal want to create a "gastrointestinally safer" version by pointing out all the dangers the ones currently in use. Alternatively, LEARN HOW TO MAKE A F***ING SANDWICH WITHOUT EATING THE BREAD CLIP.

Hit the jump for a close-up of the anatomy of a bread clip and a phylogenetic tree (yes, seriously).

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Phylogenic Plastic Bag Clip Classification [buzzfeed]

Thanks to Casie, who's never eaten a bread clip before but did swallow the pull-tab off a soda can on a bet once.

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  • This is actually a jokey take on cladistics methods in evolutionary biology. If you ever take an undergraduate course on the subject, you'll inevitably get an assignment where you have to make a phylogenetic tree for office supplies or something equally ridiculous.

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