My great grandmother died eating moldy bread according to nana
Then also how about a moment of silence for those who figured out how to melt and mix metals, imagine the unholy fumes in that OSHA nightmare, because there’s a more toxic way to make bronze before they figured out how to do it with a dash or two of tin as the second ingredient, the “seasoning” for the copper.
Ah yes, the electric fruit.
In case you ever need to know:
0 Avoid having to do this. Make someone else do these things if at all possible. Have a “Mikey”.
1 Separate the plant into its various parts—roots, stems, leaves, buds, and flowers. Focus on only one piece of the plant at a time.
2 Smell it. A strong, unpleasant odor is a bad sign, as is a musty or rotting odor. Keep a special lookout for pear- or almond-like scents, which can be evidence of cyanide.
3 Test for contact poisoning by placing a piece of the plant on your inner elbow or wrist for 8 hours. If your skin burns, itches, feels numb, or breaks out in a rash, wash off your skin and don’t eat the plant.
4 If the plant passes the skin test, prepare a small portion the way you plan to eat it (boiling is always a good bet).
5 Before taking a bite, touch the plant to your lips to test for burning or itching. If there’s no reaction after 15 minutes, take a small bite, chew it, and hold it in your mouth for 15 minutes. If the plant tastes very bitter or soapy, spit it out and wash out your mouth.
6 If there’s no reaction in your mouth, swallow the bite and wait 8 hours. If there’s no ill effect, you can assume this part of the plant is edible. Repeat the test for other parts of the plant; some plants have both edible and inedible parts. Starting to feel sick? Time to bring it up.Note: According to my MDs, allergies take two exposures for your body to freak the fuck out. So if you’re allergic to peanuts, the first time your body won’t react. The first time is your body developing antibodies or whatever the fuck it does to have allergic reactions. The second time? That’s when you swell up like Violet Beauregarde or whatever your body does. So there’s that going on too.
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Keep a special lookout for pear- or almond-like scents, which can be evidence of cyanide.
Maybe get a few other people to smell it, for this one, bonus points if they’re entirely unrelated to you. Not everyone can smell it, and there may be a genetic component to it.
0 Avoid having to do this. Make someone else do these things if at all possible. Have a “Mikey”.
This killed me.
If the plant tastes very bitter or soapy
brb, eating soap
brb, going to go lick some frogs
Now tell me about nettle soup
you should probably add liquid to the nettles. I’ve never had it. I wouldn’t bite the pointy bits.
The fact that our survival is so dependent on death is one of many reasons why I believe there has to be an afterlife.
your assumption being things have to be somehow fair?
My assumption is that typically death and survival are opposed
How the hell did they decide that cashews were edible… Like every part of the plant is poisonous except the nut.
TIL I love danger nuts.
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And they goofed up. People now consume plant based drugs like caffeine, cocain, nicotine, THC, pyote, 'shrooms, and so on. These are all poisons. Also, aspirin is based on a poison. Most drugs are based on plants. I’m including mushrooms because those would be discovered the same way.
All plants make toxins, they don’t want to be eaten (ripe fruit aside), most of us are pretty good at detoxifying the plants we consider food, but still some people overdose on vegetables. That kale guy who ate kale smoothies, kale salads, charred kale, and nearly nothing else wound up in hospital having exceeded the dangerous dose
It’s a shame that safe limits are not commonly available for everyday plant based food - two bags of vege chips is enough to make many people quite sick, but it won’t tell you on the package.
I didn’t know that about veggie chips. Also, wouldn’t imagine overdosing on Kale. The things you learn.
The trouble is there are dangerous or even lethal amounts of practically every vegetable, but it’s nearly impossible to find the numbers.
The only advice is to have great variety, and don’t eat stuff with an ingredients list, but that’s also hard to do
I went a tad extreme since I’m allergic to several of the staple plant foods (notably all the grasses, wheat in my food makes me sick, bamboo in my clothes makes me itch) so I quit all plants (and I haven’t died of scurvy even once!). I still wonder what is the LD50 for cabbage.
That sounds terrible.
THC and magic mushrooms aren’t poisonous lol.
Sola dosis facit venenum
At home we basically make this observation everytime we eat artichokes; how the fuck did people discover that this spiky flower from this plant full of spines had the base of each petal commestible?
Watching animals, the same way we discovered most things were safe
Probably mostly kids and dogs.
The ones who lived doing the same thing are pretty cool too.
“Let’s both eat a huge bowl full of these toadstools that have green blood and scream when you poke them.”
“You should definitely do that. I might just have a really small bite and see how it goes.”
I don’t get it…
Funny how the picture is a guy tripping balls on peyote
Really liked the art. Anyone knows the source?
I don’t know the answer, but Alex Grey has a painting called Death that this reminds me of.
Great scene from the show Norsemen
