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Peanuts are fatal to some people, yet we eat them all the time. Here's a counter-example to your first claim. Another one is Fugu fish, which I personally ate a
by DenisM 13y ago
Peanuts are fatal to some people, yet we eat them all the time. Here's a counter-example to your first claim. Another one is Fugu fish, which I personally ate at a restaurant, and which are known to be deadly if not prepared correctly.
Rollercoaster is dangerous to anyone with weak skeleton, and can likely induce heart attack as can a horror movie. Here's a counter-example to your other claim.
Do you have any examples that support your claims?
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- cdman 13y agoAFAIK you can't actually eat "real" Fugu in any but the most select places. What you get as Fugu is a domesticated / non poisonous version usually.
- DenisM 13y agoThere's a small number of chefs in US who are certifie4d to prepare the real fugu, and I was visiting one of them. I did not find anything special in it, by the way. :)
- epo 13y agoMisrepresented fish is said to be common in the US (http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2013/02/21/fake-fish-on-shelves-and-restaurant-tables-across-usa-new-study-says/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2013/02/21/fake-fis...). How do you know you were getting fugu?
- Alex3917 13y ago> Peanuts are fatal to some people, yet we eat them all the time. Peanuts are banned from most schools. > Another one is Fugu fish, which I personally ate at a restaurant, and which are known to be deadly if not prepared correctly. That applies to most foods, e.g. tomatoes, rhubarb, etc. When is the last time you had chicken-of-the-woods in a restaurant though? Oh wait, never. Because 90% of people find them delicious, but the other 10% cyanose and then start projectile vomiting and shitting themselves. Of course on your own that's not a big deal because you just bioassay it on yourself first, but in a restaurant that doesn't work.
- DenisM 13y ago>Peanuts are banned from most schools. Well, that's a far cry from you can't buy in any restaurant or store no matter how much you're willing to pay. So, we have established there are foods that are dangerous and can be had at a restaurant (raw fish, raw meat, peanuts, fugu), and there could be some foods that are dangerous and cannot be had at a restaurant (chicken-of-the-woods). That's much less dramatic now, is it not?
- Alex3917 13y agoI wasn't claiming that there are no potentially dangerous foods that you can buy at restaurants, only that there are many potentially dangerous foods that you can't buy at restaurants.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoWhat are some more examples that are not mushrooms? Genuinely curious.
- Dove 13y agoCasu marzu[1] comes to mind, though wikipedia indicates that it's legal(ish) again. Not that I think it would be that great a loss to society if it were unavailable, but there you go. Kind of an extreme example, though. I don't think that it justifies the notion that society suffers under a tragedy of many useful foods being unavailable. I also would need to be persuaded of that. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu
- foobarbazqux 13y agoOh yeah, I've seen that, it's like the lemon party of food porn or something. And anyway, it's only dangerous if the maggots are dead! I thought of a more mainstream example (to repeat myself from another reply) - there's a lot of regulations surrounding raw milk and cheese.