Cite? I can’t find anything on Medline or PubMed to this effect.
Apart from the fruit (or tuber) tomato as well as potato are poisonous. I won’t cite, since my reference books are in a language none of you understand. This is common knowledge.
I’ve read the reason Europeans used to think these plants are poisonous is because they ate the green parts which ARE poisonous.
Cicuta virosa, the water hemlock, is possibly the deadliest plant in Europe (America?) There are reports of people getting severe poisoning from skinning an animal that died after eating the plant. That’s pretty potent IMHO.
There are dozens of poisonous plants in the Apiaceae family. The edible ones like the carrot are more like an exception.
Scientific American had an article on tomatoes back in the 70s (I guess) that mentions this. Most Old-world solonaceae are poisonous. Many New-world solonaceae are hallucinogenic. It’s one Hell of a family. I wonder whether it’s just a coincidence that ‘tomato’ ‘potato’ and ‘tobacco’ are such similar-sounding words.
Zombie fruits and vegetables!?!
g-r-r-a-a-a-i-i-i-n-s
Eating any kind of produce left out since 2003 would be a bad idea.
Yes. It’s a coincidence.
((pulls up chair, waits to see The Zombie Stomp))
Potatoes are named (mostly) after sweet potatoes, whose latin name is Ipomea batata.
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Actually, there is no rule against zombies in GQ, as long as relevant information is being added to the thread. Given that luce_gilmore’s post provides new information, it’s OK. (So everyone can stop reporting it.;))
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THey’re all descended from the ancestral pomacco plant.
…You say to-back-oh and I say to-bake-oh…