"Tim Tyler" wrote in message ...
In uk.rec.gardening Jim Webster wrote:

: you said

: : : Our taste buds do their best to warn us about many plant toxins.

: so do a taste bud test and tell us which are safest, raw red kidney
beans or
: raw peppers

It would prove nothing. I never claimed that all plant toxins were
detected - or that the efforts of our taste buds to warn us were
always successful.

in fact anyone who followed your suggestion could have ended up seriously
dead

Jim Webster