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You’d have to use a very strange definition of edible. For something to be edible it does not only need to be able to fit down your throat, it has to be capable of nourishing you without harming you. You can swallow paper and it won’t harm you, but it also can’t nourish you and is thus inedible. You can eat this mushroom and it’ll probably provide some kind of nourishment, but then it will swiftly kill you and thus it is inedible.

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Erika3sis@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Jimmy Neutron “sodium chloride” ass reply, “everything is edible at least once” is a common joke that works precisely because words’ definitions are not rigid

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- booty@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, it’s a very common joke which I argue does not work because despite the fact that there is leeway in how words are defined (that’s kind of what my entire comment is about) there is no valid definition of edible which includes mushrooms that definitely kill you if you eat them.
  
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  - Erika3sis@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Whatever you say, Bazinga Neutron
    
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    booty@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    At least I’m trying to have a conversation instead of just jumping into a thread and insulting people for no reason.
    
    In other words, fuck off, asshole.
    
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- Owl@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  A bollard isn’t edible, even once.
  
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