• Almonds@mander.xyzEnglish
      16·
      6 months ago

      My chemistry prof would repeat over and over that “bitter is poison”. Bitter is one of my favorite flavor types, after spicy. If I lived before the internet I totally would have died after eating a tasty salad of poison xD

      • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        6 months ago

        Dose makes the poison. Most bitter flavors (that you eat) aren’t really meant to discourage you from eating them, it’s really meant for insects.

        Plant: I will make an unappetizing flavor to prevent myself from getting eaten

        Humans: finally, some good fucking food

      • earlgrey0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        Almonds over here telling everyone that the poison plant is totally fine and tasty! xD

        I agree though bitter is part of the spice of life and a very good flavor

    • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      If you’re really looking to spit in the eyes of Death:

      Mince some destroying angel and deadly webcap and cook into a nice mushroom ranch, sliver some bitter almonds and untreated cashew nuts over a nice hemlock cress with some of the shaved hemlock roots mixed in. Mix in thinly sliced manchineel apple and add belladonna berries on the top for additional sweetness. From what I understand, all of those actually taste pretty decent, so without the deadly poisons this’d be a bomb salad.

  • Pyr@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    6 months ago

    What we really need is to get rid of spines and thorns in blackberry bushes.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    English
    5·
    6 months ago

    A certain amount of bitter is needed to fend off the insects.

    I guess it’s just a choice of what kind and what amount of bitterness is in the plants.

    Maybe you can remove the original poison and replace it with a different kind of poison that’s non-toxic to humans, but still fends of other potential eaters.

    Just floating ideas here, but maybe a type of poison exists that can be deactivated by cooking the plants? That way, it could be eaten by humans, but would still fend off other invaders.