sca-cooks Re: Spice Use and Food Poisoning, etc.

[JTRbear at aol.com]

In a message dated 97-04-10 09:51:53 EDT, you write:

<< Some of the things our ancestors did with food, we would not consider.
 But
 eating rotten meat is not one of them.  (Eating live animals, on the other
 hand...)
 
 	Tibor >>

Actually the Icelandic people used to burry a type of a Greenland shark that
was too toxic to eat fresh and after in had started to rot releasing the
cyanic acid.  They called it Hakarl.

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