Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I LearnedEnglish · 9 days agoTIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.www.smithsonianmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down16
arrow-up1185arrow-down1external-linkTIL at one time, people thought that tomatoes were poisonous.www.smithsonianmag.comQuilotoa@lemmy.ca to Today I LearnedEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square31linkfedilink
minus-squareDamaskoxlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 days agoThe lengths someone has needed to go to find out whether something is edible, not poisonous, etc… “Damn, Mike boiled these mushrooms once and died. What if I boil them once more? Hmm, tastes okay. And I didn’t even die!”
minus-squareMehBlahlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 days agoYou mean starvation. Historically starvation is how they learned what will and wont kill.
minus-squareRegrettable_incidentlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoApparently, there is one type of highly poisonous mushroom that is fucking delicious. Then you die horribly.
The lengths someone has needed to go to find out whether something is edible, not poisonous, etc…
“Damn, Mike boiled these mushrooms once and died. What if I boil them once more? Hmm, tastes okay. And I didn’t even die!”
You mean starvation. Historically starvation is how they learned what will and wont kill.
Apparently, there is one type of highly poisonous mushroom that is fucking delicious. Then you die horribly.