[Ellendra]

Shoot, there’s too many people who think potatoes grow above the ground, like an eggplant. Or that owning a pig means getting free pork and sausage forever, without ever killing the pig. I had someone try to convince me once that gooseberries were poisonous. And another person tried to claim that you can eat any plant in the world “as long as you eat it slowly enough.”

Urbanites will eventually come looking, but I think the herd will be drastically thinned by that point. Unfortunately, it’s the most dangerous ones who will be left.

[MrB]

There was an old joke about a farmer with a three legged pig.
Seems the pig was super smart and had saved the lives of the family members many times over.

When asked why the pig only had three legs,
the farmer replied “when you have a pig that’s that good, you don’t eat him all at once”.

[MrB]

Here it is:

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A traveling salesman trying to make a buck was driving through the plains of Nebraska when he decided to stop at a farmhouse coming up on his left.
As he was walking up the driveway toward the front door of the house, a pig with three legs caught his eye. It was just hobbling through the grass.
When the farmer answered the door and asked what he was selling, the salesman first asked about the three legged pig.
“That pig is the most amazing pig in the land, son.” The farmer said
“Last year, our house caught fire when we were all asleep and that pig ran in and woke us all up one by one and saved our lives!”
The salesman was surprised. “That is one special pig” He said.
The Farmer replied, “That’s not all. Last summer, that pig jumped into the pond and dragged my drowning son to safety. He would have died.”
The salesman was in disbelief as to how incredible this pig was. “One question. Why does he have 3 legs, is it from the fire?” He asked
“No son, ya see, a pig like that you just don’t eat all at one time.”

[blam]

"And another person tried to claim that you can eat any plant in the world “as long as you eat it slowly enough.” "

Don't Eat Polk Salad

""The roots, berries, seeds and mature stems and leaves of pokeweed are poisonous," says Extension Food Scientist Jean Weese. There are at least three different types of poison in this plant -- phytolaccatoxin, triterpene saponins, an alkaloid, phytolaccin, and histamines.

[allmendream]

Yep, so as I line them up in my scope I will reflect upon the likelihood of just how many people they ended up killing, how much food they stole from starving women and children, to get themselves out of the city and survive day to day - all to end up at the end of my driveway (and eventually in pig slop).

[bgill]

Some pigs are smarter than humans.