maxine in ri wrote:
>
> OMG! Tapioca's poisonous? Who knew! Why, that must be why I'm the
> way I am. Wait til I tell the folks at the USDA about this. They'll
> pull all that evil stuff off the shelves faster than they did tampered
> Tylenol! If I live that long....

Oh, it's much worse than that! Many of us remember
the tapioca bomb that nearly sank a ship in 1972.

http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/tapioca.asp