If you had one chance to eat or drink something poisonous without dying or experiencing any health repercussions, what would you try?

Favrion@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 45 points –

For me, maybe petrol.

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A glass of mercury, it looks like it tastes delicious.

Sooo elemental mercury. Not absorbed well in the GI tract. I had a patient who took time cracking open thermometers from boilers for a while and then attempted to drink it mixed with some coffee to commit suicide. We show up since he called 911 and now wanted to go to the hospital. Call poison control for recommendations for local hospitals since this isn't common and i don't know what hospitals can handle this thing. Poison control cites that it isn't well absorbed, if at all, in the GI tract. I was pretty surprised.

So really you could drink it and find out the taste with very small if any repercussions.

Ya know, just saying.

Didn't uh.. something like Lewis and Clarke..

Didn't they use mercury based laxatives, and that was used to track their path?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-reconstruct-lewis-and-clark-journey-follow-mercury-laden-latrine-pits-180956518/

Should have used an everlasting pill if they didn't want to be tracked by their poop.

a single pill would serve a whole family during their lives

"Hey Dad, can I get the everlasting pill when you're done with it?"

"Check back in a few hours."

🤢

Yeah elemental mercury ain't that bad. It's all those organic compounds of mercury that are the baddies.

And.... you know, shiny poops that hit the bottom of the bowl with a THUNK , that would be something different. You'd literally lose a few pounds every time you went to the toilet.

Does lava count as poisonous

By the power granted to me by no one in particular:

I'll allow it.

I mean... alcohol? You can already buy it easily prepared in all sorts of delicious ways.

Am I not in the spirit of the thing?

The effects is what makes it delicious, no effects means no upside to drinking the poison

You haven't changed my mind, but now I'm mildly concerned about you and I'm here if you need help.

Yep, alcohol is definitely delicious. Getting drunk is fun too sometimes sure... but often I quite decide not to have another beer because despite wanting more of the flavor, I don't want more of the effects.

I would see what the big deal with heroine is

If you don't experience any of the reprocussions, would it even do anything?

You would probably get high but have the incredibly painful withdrawal symptoms.

Granted, the euphoria alone would probably incentivize you to try it again anyway, so I still wouldn't

I heard some poisonous mushrooms are very tasty...

I mean you don't need invulnerability to find out, you just gotta choose wisely, since you only get one shot.

The fly agaric mushroom. I wanna see if it makes me taller.

Totally. Seem them everywhere, and they're so cute. Would be great to just munch them, buttered on toast...

Monster.

Four Loko, the official drink of poor decisions.

I was paid to drink that stuff for a few years...I'd never do it for free, let alone pay for it.

Where you on clinical trials or something?

Hahaha almost!

Worked in a brewery where they canned it on contract. As part of my job I supported the quality dept, and part of that was going to the daily tasting panel to sign off on the day's production.

My worst enemy. I get a full stomach and less of a nuisance to worry about.

Whatever psychedelic supposedly broadens your mind or whatever

I’ve always hoped a shot of petrol “could” be delicious. Spicy, dry and with deep earthy undertones…