Did Seinfeld teach you this?

Yes. Learned that from a Seinfeld episode.

Im learning people haven’t watched MythBusters

Back in 1997, I was in the US Army and one of the NCO's there told me to avoid Lemon Poppyseed muffins or anything with poppyseeds because I'd piss hot for the urinalysis tests as if I were on opiates or heroin.

Mr. Peterman would like a word.

A place I used to work at would fill the break room with free poppyseed food items right before a drug test to deliberately get false positive tests so they could easily fire people.

I always expected somebody to sue, nobody ever did.

did anyone actually get fired because of that?

(if not... no lawsuit)

That episode aired 20 years ago and I say aired because it was before online streaming became widely available.

Episode 3/Air date March 7, 2003

athletes in high school would say they ate poppyseed bagels to get excused from the random drug testing lol

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I thought you had to injest close close to 1 kg of then to piss a positive test

It was part of the paperwork during my last drug test.

That's right. White Lotus. Yam-yam. Shanghai Sally.

…unfortunately, you also have osteoporosis.

Not necessarily, but most “tests” keep this fact in mind and trace amounts of morphine are seen as normal.

It’s pretty outdated now anyways, isn’t it? If I recall correctly, the answer was yes but you’d have to eat a TON of poppy seeds for it to make your test positive. I think that now the screening tests they use are much more sensitive and can pick up false positives from poppy seeds more easily.

Several.

Might have been too hard to prove that it was the food at the time. Or maybe the persons that got canned really were using something that would show on the test anyway. Who knows.

wow. no second tests? no "chance of false positive" options?

That's so sketchy

So if you eat a couple pounds of poppy seeds do you get high as a kite??

Today I watched a Seinfeld rerun

His lines in that episode were classic

You are absolutely right. It's also why "it was 2nd hand smoke" doesn't work. They can tell the difference.

My dad, who is retired now, has a great story because of this. Before he retired, he worked at a metal producing plant and started getting "randomly" selected each month to get tested. After the 4th "random" selection he started keeping a poppy seed bagle in his desk. Sure enough, he got selected a 5th time so he immediately ate the bagle then went to get tested. 30 minutes later, he got sent home. Got 3 days paid vacation for a false positive because of state drug laws. He stopped getting "randomly" selected after that.

CBS news

2 NJ women were unknowingly drug screened before going into labor. B oth got false positives from poppyseed baked goods

Some guy that managed a place in Australia that I lived in, suggested that drug smuggling via bird seed (those compressed pyramid things) was highly lucrative & possible in the 70's. Dunno, possible. Motorcycle gang type.

Poor Elaine, metabolism of an elderly woman, also menopausal

I learned this is high school from a good girl failing for opiates. Her face when they said that was wild. They came in to the group of us who took them and looked at her and say she failed for it and that was the reason. Her parents did an investigation as to why she would of failed for it and that’s what the came to find out. Poppy seed salad dressing.

It may show a positive result in a basic test depending on how much you eat and the time between consumption and testing. It will not fool a quality lab test.

I once seen this bagel sandwich absolutely covered in the poppy seeds and was captioned/ had a comment saying that if ate it you would definitely fail a test for heroine.

Acquaintance of mine failed a workplace drug test due to purchasing 3 lunch rolls with poppy seeds on them in the period of one week. Testing is quite sensitive apparently.

She was going to meet the bushmen. And the bushwomen!