# So why shouldn't I eat the brown acid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 19, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835 "2002-07-19T16:58:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/21 "2016-02-07T16:52:50Z")
Does this thread set a new record for time between trip and flashback? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/22 "2016-02-07T17:44:35Z")
For the same reason you don’t snort the yellow snow? ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/23 "2016-02-07T18:10:33Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > The announcement was made by Wavy Gravy. Who, as it turned out, was smoking harmless tobacco the entire time. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/24 "2016-02-09T06:10:32Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Because, in the words of the stage announcer (possibly Bill Graham), the brown acid was “not specifically too good.” Jeez, doesn’t anyone else have the soundtrack? 🙂 Word. The last time I heard it was at least 35 years ago, and I knew immediately that somebody had \*\*not \*\*listened to it. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/25 "2016-02-09T06:13:45Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > The announcement was made by Wavy Gravy. I’d bet a zillion bucks that you’re wrong, and, again, I haven’t heard the recording in 35 years. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/26 "2016-02-09T08:49:11Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > I’d bet a zillion bucks that you’re wrong, and, again, I haven’t heard the recording in 35 years. You would lose a zillion bucks iirc ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/27 "2016-02-09T11:00:36Z")
Wavy Gravy made the follow up announcement. After the “…not specifically too good…” announcement, there was a “…if you think you’ve taken some poison, you can forget it.” announcement. That one was Wavy Gravy. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/28 "2016-02-19T10:33:24Z")
The brown acid announcement was NOT WG. Just got my trill back. BTW, WHY am I the first to post the link??? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/29 "2016-02-19T23:14:39Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > The brown acid announcement was NOT WG. That one–the one from the LP–is Chip Monck. Wavy Gravy (Hugh Romney) made the [“It’s not poison, it’s just bad acid”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV0AAF17LsI#t=16) announcement. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835/30 "2016-02-20T00:57:18Z")
Here’s [John Belushi’s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS83HGHU934) take on the matter. Geez, were we ever really that young? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-why-shouldnt-i-eat-the-brown-acid/119835.md?page=1)