One I heard of...
It's probably been heard and reiterated by someone else already. Ah well.

The story of a studenty man whose tightwaddy nature was such that he only ever ate porridge (probably cold). Consequently, he got ill, and the doctor reported it as the first case of scurvy in these lands for many a year.

Urban myth? Probably, but I'm not forking out a story of my own, unless I can profit from it.
(Impuritan, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 1:17, 4 replies)

That story came up in one of ye olde QOTW
Four years ago:

http://b3ta.com/questions/skint/post16232
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 3:15, closed)

I first heard this
when I was a student in the 80s.

There was an extra detail that made it more convincing: the skint/tightwad student in question went out and bought loads of porridge, and greaseproof paper, lined his drawers (ooer) with the paper, cooked the porridge, then poured it into the drawers, where it cooled and hardened. He then chipped blocks off it with a screwdriver when hungry. Result: malnutrition, scurvy.
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 13:00, closed)

yup
I heard that one in 1990
(inflateable, Mon 27 Oct 2008, 21:44, closed)

My cousin
said his flatmate at uni did that. He said he pissed his loan away on a hifi and spent the rest on a big bag of porridge oats. He got scurvey as a result. Now I don't know what to believe!
(claireyfairy There's a smell in here that will outlast religion, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 11:48, closed)