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To: evangmlw
Never heard of anyone getting drunk on bread. Never heard of anyone beating his wife, his dog, his child, or killing someone after eating a loaf of bread. Never known anyone to be arrested for public drunkness or making an idiot out of themselves after eating a few slices of bread.

Not in modern times. In the middle ages and prior, ergotism from eating bread was relatively common.

148 posted on 06/19/2006 11:50:06 AM PDT by tortoise
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To: tortoise

Indeed, the prevailing theory regarding the halucinations that started the Salem witch trials was bad bread.


149 posted on 06/19/2006 12:04:33 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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