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Your warning at the end doesn't seem to square with your willingness to eat new varieties you've never seen or heard of before. How do you know beforehand that
by sparky_z 6y ago
Your warning at the end doesn't seem to square with your willingness to eat new varieties you've never seen or heard of before. How do you know beforehand that whatever mutation caused that Mulberry tree to produce fruit all season didn't also add toxic compounds to the berries? Is this a do as I say not as I do situation?
- peanutz454 6y agoMulberry is not a berry, its a composite fruit. There is such a small chance of toxic Mulberry. A little adventure is fine. If you really have to - start by putting the juice on lips, graduate from there, waiting at least a day between next step. When I pick fruits in the wild, I take a really small bite. But really, if I had to grow a Mulberry I would get a professional to do it for me from a known cultivar.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoLiving is a risk. The chance of toxicity occurring in new plants is possible but quite small, but it's not likely to kill you, just make you sick. Full recovery is highly likely. Life in perfect safety is not worth much to many people (inc. me), and indeed not possible unless you have a large cushion of money. Your small-c conservatism is fine for you and I won't judge you on it, but please don't expect it of others.
- sparky_z 6y agoYou seem to have misunderstood me as being in favor of perfect safety. I'm happy to eat a weird berry. This was meant as a joke about the excessively careful warning he put at the end of his post and how it didn't seem to jibe with the worldview he was otherwise advocating.