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And potatoes are a nightshade. Mind you, there are an awful lot of nightshades - peppers, tobacco, aubergine etc - so maybe it's nothing to get too worried about, unless you're unusually sensitive to alkaloids.
Bitter almonds contain high levels of prussic acid, from which cyanide can be refined.
And everyone knows that brussels sprouts have the unique quality of being poisonous to everyone in close proximity while leaving the ingester completely unharmed. As any fule kno, Hassan-i-Sabbah, leader of the Hashishin, employed this method to assassinate the ninth Fatimid Caliph in 1087, although it wouldn't of course have been at a christmas dinner, and he did use tincture of prunes as an accelerant.
Cookery is a lethal art - at least it is when I'm in the kitchen!!
Bitter almonds contain high levels of prussic acid, from which cyanide can be refined.
And everyone knows that brussels sprouts have the unique quality of being poisonous to everyone in close proximity while leaving the ingester completely unharmed. As any fule kno, Hassan-i-Sabbah, leader of the Hashishin, employed this method to assassinate the ninth Fatimid Caliph in 1087, although it wouldn't of course have been at a christmas dinner, and he did use tincture of prunes as an accelerant.
Cookery is a lethal art - at least it is when I'm in the kitchen!!