Comment on Pioneers

LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, but not everyone wants to wipe leaves on their anus in front of others.

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  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bold move to start there, but someone’s got to do it.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    you can just wipe them on your arm.

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• criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But how else can you tell for sure?

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  • LurkingLuddite@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For a serious answer, there’s a whole process you can follow. It’s basically going from minimum exposure up through eating a small bit of it and waiting multiple hours to days between steps. If any show signs of being irritating or worse, don’t eat/use that plant. It’s slow enough that if you had to rely on it for finding your sole source of food, you’re going to have a rough, hungry time.

    Something like:

    1. Rub a little on hardier parts of your skin, wait and see.
    2. Break up the plant to expose more of it and rub that on a small patch, wait and see.
    3. Try it on more sensitive skin areas, wait and see.
    4. Try holding a bit in your mouth, spit it out. Wait and see.
    5. Chew some up, spit it out and wait and see.
    6. Eat a tiny amount, wait and see.

    I’m probably forgetting some steps, too. It’s genuinely very slow.

    Worse yet, there are plenty of plants/fungi that would still fuck you up or kill you doing it this way, so the OP still has a point.

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