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10 Jan 2016, 10:22 pm

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^ Eating your trilby might do the trick

Someone should eat Taylor Swift.
That would do the trick.
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I once ate printer paper as a kid. My siblings and I were doing some weird x factor type thing where we tried to eat weird things. Soaked in water and salted. What a dumbass :P

I ate boiled peanut shells.
It was a real learning curve.
I learnt that boiled peanut shells induce vomiting.


NEVER eat apricot kernels. They contain cyanide.


A single apricot kernel contains about ½ milligram of cyanide (Committee on Toxicity, 2006)


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10 Jan 2016, 10:23 pm

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^ I've eaten apricot kernels too.
I'm still alive, so far.


I stand corrected.

You obviously didn't eat enough to kill you - But cyanide is accumulative. I wouldn't eat too many more.


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10 Jan 2016, 10:25 pm

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^ I've eaten apricot kernels too.
I'm still alive, so far.


I stand corrected.

You obviously didn't eat enough to kill you - But cyanide is accumulative. I wouldn't eat too many more.


^^^ Just like arsenic


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10 Jan 2016, 10:25 pm

They have a very strong flavour - much like how you would imagine a beetle would taste.
I think you'd have to eat a lot of them to get poisoned and the flavour would prevent that for a lot of people.


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10 Jan 2016, 10:26 pm

A lot of Aspies are into these deadly things

I can almost see their fascination in them


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10 Jan 2016, 10:27 pm

Raleigh wrote:
They have a very strong flavour - much like how you would imagine a beetle would taste.
I think you'd have to eat a lot of them to get poisoned and the flavour would prevent that for a lot of people.


Did you know, nutmeg is an hallucinogen? Same though. You'd have to consume more than I could stand to get anywhere on it though. I ought to know. I tried. YUCK!


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10 Jan 2016, 10:32 pm

^ haha!
I used to take apricot kernel oil daily for about 6 months.
I don't know if there's cyanide in that.
It's probably wondrous that I'm still alive.


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10 Jan 2016, 10:34 pm

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^ haha!
I used to take apricot kernel oil daily for about 6 months.
I don't know if there's cyanide in that.
It's probably wondrous that I'm still alive.


I think they synthesize the amygdalin out of it. Hence, no bitter flavour.


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10 Jan 2016, 10:35 pm

^^^ and no toxic effects


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10 Jan 2016, 10:40 pm

In 1993, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets tested the cyanide content of two 220 gram (8 oz) packages of bitter apricot kernels imported from Pakistan that were being sold in health-food stores as a snack. The results showed that each package, if consumed entirely, contained at least double the minimum lethal dosage of cyanide for an adult human. The apricot pits were recalled and removed from stores.[2] There was one reported case in the medical literature of cyanide toxicity from apricot kernels from 1979 to 1998 in the United States.[3] On average, bitter apricot kernels contain about 5% amygdalin and sweet kernels about 0.9% amygdalin.[4] These values correspond to 0.3% and 0.05% of cyanide. Since a typical apricot kernel weighs 600 mg, bitter and sweet varieties contain respectively 1.8 and 0.3 mg of cyanide.

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10 Jan 2016, 10:44 pm

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In 1993, the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets tested the cyanide content of two 220 gram (8 oz) packages of bitter apricot kernels imported from Pakistan that were being sold in health-food stores as a snack. The results showed that each package, if consumed entirely, contained at least double the minimum lethal dosage of cyanide for an adult human. The apricot pits were recalled and removed from stores.[2] There was one reported case in the medical literature of cyanide toxicity from apricot kernels from 1979 to 1998 in the United States.[3] On average, bitter apricot kernels contain about 5% amygdalin and sweet kernels about 0.9% amygdalin.[4] These values correspond to 0.3% and 0.05% of cyanide. Since a typical apricot kernel weighs 600 mg, bitter and sweet varieties contain respectively 1.8 and 0.3 mg of cyanide.

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and as I said, it's cumulative. I wouldn't eat too many of them. It never leaves the body. Just like arsenic.


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10 Jan 2016, 10:47 pm

Arsenic And Old Lace - Now there's a funny movie.

Cary Grant, Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre.

Old Frank Capra movie


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10 Jan 2016, 10:48 pm

^ And yet apricot kernels are touted are a 'cure' for cancer.
That was probably what saw my step dad off.
That's how I ended up with the apricot kernels/oil.
I inherited them :(


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^ And yet apricot kernels are touted are a 'cure' for cancer.
That was probably what saw my step dad off.
That's how I ended up with the apricot kernels/oil.
I inherited them :(


Doctors used to recommend smoking to cure peoples' coughs.


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10 Jan 2016, 10:50 pm

ImAnAspie wrote:
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^ And yet apricot kernels are touted are a 'cure' for cancer.
That was probably what saw my step dad off.
That's how I ended up with the apricot kernels/oil.
I inherited them :(


Doctors used to recommend smoking to cure peoples' coughs.


And it's true. Smoking does stop you from coughing - it'll also kill you!! ! :skull: (back to the skull)


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10 Jan 2016, 10:51 pm

^ Yeah, it would seem to be a permanent cure :skull:


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