Good to know...?

[kairon_gnothi]

Chewing tobacco is not a food.  Pillars v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 78 So. 365 (Miss. 1918

Comments

[ruthling]

so you really do get ptomaine poisoning from toes?

[crystalpyramid]

Apparently it's a technical term from before they discovered bacteria. Although there are definitely some poisons present in decaying flesh, ptomaine was a blanket term that predated a detailed understanding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foodborne_illness#.22Ptomaine_poisoning.22

[adfamiliares]

Whoa.