# I ate moldy bread...Ahhhh! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 5, 1999, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375 "1999-08-05T00:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/1 "1999-08-05T00:20:00Z")
So, I inadvertantly ate some moldy bread, funny it tatsed ok. Now, can this stuff hurt me? Or will it just cure some minor infections? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/2 "1999-08-05T00:45:00Z")
Before we can answer your question, we’ll need more details. Wheat, white or rye? Toasted or plain? Peanie-budder and jam or baloney? Mustard, mayonnaise, butter or margarine? * * * “There will always be somebody who’s never read a book who’ll know twice what you know.” - D.Duchovny ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/3 "1999-08-05T00:49:00Z")
Are you dead yet? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/4 "1999-08-05T01:45:00Z")
I did this once. I got a mild but very unpleasant bout of food poisoning. I didn’t hurl, but I spent most of a day wanting to. Just wanted you to know what you’re in for. BTW, syrup of ipecac does work. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/5 "1999-08-05T02:49:00Z")
Sorta disproves your handle, what? Get well soon! * * * Zymurgist ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/6 "1999-08-05T03:12:00Z")
It can be nasty if you are allergic to penicillin. A friend who had such an allergy accidentally ate some moldy bread. He hurled so violently, he burst the capillaries in his cheeks. After that, he was fine - just a little red-faced from the whole incident. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/7 "1999-08-05T03:23:00Z")
Hope all this reasures you Omni ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/8 "1999-08-05T03:35:00Z")
Lots of fungi are as benign as lots of the bacteria we carry all the time (you probably don’t want to know about that), my advice is that if you get really sick, go to the ER, if you feel like hurling, induce it. Let us know how it comes out 😉 Larry ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/9 "1999-08-05T04:51:00Z")
Oh, you’ll be fine. That’s what stomach acid is for. My husband says I’ll kill him yet. * * * “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” - Rhett Butler ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/10 "1999-08-05T05:46:00Z")
T+ 05:22:32 and no signs of unpleasant side effects. I…I…I hope th…th…that I d…d…don’t get any of…f…f…f the…those nasty side eff…ff…ff…ects. N…N…No one mentioned…d…d uncontr…tr…trollable stuttering! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/11 "1999-08-05T05:54:00Z")
Ha! Yup, you’re a goner! Actually, the molds that grow on bread are mostly not the same molds that make penicillin. What you just gobbled down was little more than a healthy dose of protein. Consider it to be part of a nutritous breakfast… (Of course, depending on what part of the country you live in, it could have been…nah, we won’t even think about that. The hallucinations stop after only a few hours, anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/12 "1999-08-05T05:54:00Z")
You were on time about casting aspersions; I hope you’re not having any inflamitory responses to the mold. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/13 "1999-08-05T11:17:00Z")
Don’t worry too much Omniescient, my mother always used to say that anything that doesn’t kill you will only make you stronger, and you ain’t dead yet. 🙂 * * * It only hurts when I laugh. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/14 "1999-08-05T13:27:00Z")
Where’s teen hippie on this one, one of the active parts of LSD grows on moldy rye bread. * * * Formerly known as Nec3f on the AOL SDMB ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/15 "1999-08-05T13:51:00Z")
Not to frighten you or anything, but was the mold black? Never eat black mold. If I remember my microbiology correctly, black mold is usually a nasty little thing called Aspergillus; it’s very poisonous. Don’t inhale it either- that can kill you too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 1999, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/16 "1999-08-05T14:53:00Z")
Remember, if children begin to accuse you of witch craft, save a sample so that is can be used as evidence in your trial. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 1999, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/17 "1999-08-06T00:20:00Z")
Ergots, from which LSD is produced, as well as numerous other pharmaceutically useful substances (anyone remember Delysid?) grows on the rye plant itself. I dunno if you can get ergots off of rye bread - seems it would be too processed or something, but this is just a WAG. * * * Cave Diem! Carpe Canem! ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 1999, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/18 "1999-08-06T06:51:00Z")
Got all that omni? don’t cast aspersions on asparagus, don’t speak in argot,hold your breathe till your black in the face and you’ll be OK. Oh , do save a sample like cmetzb said it will come in handy at the autopsy. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Smooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dr\_Smooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Smooth)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 1999, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/19 "1999-08-06T18:48:00Z")
You should know if you eat anything your body does not like within 72 hours or so. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Berry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Carl\_Berry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Berry)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 1999, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375/20 "1999-08-06T19:45:00Z")
We haven’t heard from the all knowing one since shortly after mid-night thurs! Do you suppose he’s with his maker getting answers to all of our questions? R.I.P. * * * Zymurgist [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ate-moldy-bread-ahhhh/2375.md?page=2)