Reply #10: it wasn't ricin because "nobody got sick." [View All]

[radfringe]

reminds me of a conversation between my father and my grandmother (on mother's side). My dad's side of the family is from Germany, my mom's is from Italy.

we were sitting around the table at my grandmother's house and the subject of mushrooming came up

my dad turns to my grandmother and says "Ma, when you were a little girl in Italy, did you pick mushrooms?"

Grandmother: yes, we often went for mushrooms

Dad: how did you tell the good mushrooms from the bad ones?
( My dad was expecting some little folksy test to tell the good from the bad, like dip it in milk and if it turns green then it's not a good one... )

Grandmother: How did we tell the good ones from the bad ones?

Dad: yeah, so you know which ones were safe to eat

Grandmother: (shrugs and says matter of factly) we fed them to the cat

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

on edit: before I get blasted for cruelty to animals - what she meant was that the cats were believed to be able to tell the difference - if they didn't eat or lick the mushtoom it was a bad one. If they tried to eat/lick one then it was ok. NO CATS DIED FROM THIS TECHINQUE