In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> But what made that first brave soul pluck a mushroom from the ground and eat
> it? So many nightshades are deadly. What wild critters were they watching
> to determine this one was okay and that one wasn't?

I think it's hard for people in industrialized countries to realize just
what hunger is--and what a person might do to avoid starving. If you're
hungry enough, you might try to eat anything--especially if you don't
have culturally indoctrinated ideas of what is yucky.

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