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Join Date: Oct 2004
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The only time I hurled was from mayo where I misread the expiration year. I thought the 6 was an 8 and figured only a little off at the time. I had recently gone back to normal foods after a medically necessary super strict diet, so everything tasted weird.
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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I think all of those are horrifically bitter. The character may hurl just out of taste revulsion if not technical poison. Until a few years ago the mere idea of raw celery would make me gag. Forcing me to eat it despite its normal food safety would have made me vomit.
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Ireland
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They might use something more dangerous than vinegar for their equivalent of pickling.
Regarding the bitterness: we dislike the taste because of the danger. This proposed character will taste these as regular nuts, herbs, and berries. Last edited by Dingle; 02-02-2016 at 05:41 PM. Reason: didn't notice previous post |
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Many acids are more toxic than corrosive. I believe that if you've suffered moderate burns from hydrofluoric acid, you've already taken in a lethal dose.
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Join Date: Mar 2012
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Indiscriminate eating of random plants. Most of them are mildly poisonous. Few will kill you. many will make you sick. At least without the +8.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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HF is an unusual case -- while there are plenty of toxic substances that are technically acids (e.g. hydrogen cyanide), most of them won't cause burns at all, and major acids that are likely to burn you (sulfuric, hydrochloric, nitric) are primarily dangerous for their corrosiveness.
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Okay, I should have written, "some acids..." Or maybe even just one acid?
I was trying to think of something toxic that could be used to pickle. A quick search shows that pickling, by definition, is either in vinegar specifically, or by means of fermentation which leads to lactic acid.
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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There is also a form of it in metallurgy that using strong acids such as sulfuric or hydrochloric. But immunity to poisons wouldn't protect you from such; they inflict actual corrosion damage to hit points, and no immunity exists for that.
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Luxembourg
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Colorful mushrooms are good for showing off.
If resistant to metabolic hazards instead of poison, wearing benzene as a perfume ? And of course, lead-based paints for plates... |
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
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The other factor is, of course, that examples that have reason to be consumed are the best. "Detoxifying it was too much of a hassle" and "But it tastes good!" are the reasons I came up with so far, but perhaps there are others. (Note: the 'showing off' is more of an OOC thing than IC. I.e. I'm looking for things that would be casual for the culture but impressive/scary for outsiders.) |
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