Re: Rhubarb? Toxic? (fwd)

[clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)]

Poster: clevin@ripco.com (Craig Levin)

> > They were worried about people walking through and nibbling on the
> >leaves, so
> > despite the fact that the colonists planted lots of rhubarb, there
> >was none
> > planted at the museum.
> 
> Gosh, you think they could have simply put up a sign, "Please don't eat
> our displays." ;-)

For that matter, you'd think that people would know enough not to
eat random herbs. Anyone who's even vaguely familiar with rhubarb
knows that only the stems are safe...

I assume that most of us, as children, wandered about in the
gardens of our parents and neighbors, and sometimes grabbed
things to put in our mouths-it's natural-kids do that all the
time. If you grew up in a city, as I did, you also ambled about
in parks and vacant lots-and as for the people who grew up in
the "safe" countryside, well...we all learned early on that
plants we didn't recognize weren't good for us-because Mom and
Dad smacked us when we started getting herbivorous. What's with
these people?
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Craig Levin
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