Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
by senorjazz on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:33AM
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but didn't santa claus used to be green until sponsored by coca cola? Or is that some kind of myth?
Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
by dfxm12 on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:47AM
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The Coca Cola bit is a myth. There are a lot of depictions of Santa in a red suit before Coca Cola used it in advertising: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/a-pictorial-histo...
Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
by Zenst on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:41AM
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Not a myth but true - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_suit
Re:How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safely?
by dagw on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:51AM
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The site you link to even claims that it is a myth:
"This change (to the red suit) is often mistakenly attributed to... the Coca-Cola Company...the red suit was shown on the covers of Harper's Weekly at least forty years before".
Coca Cola can however probably be given a fair amount of credited for making this the ubiquitous look.
Consider these folks: https://ambrosiasociety.org/
Who believe (among many other surprising things) that the legend of Santa Claus involves reindeer for this reason and point out that he wears red and white because so does that mushroom.
The bits of their ebook that I've read are less kooky than their website would make it seem.
There's also a video showing how to remove the neurotoxic component so that the other psychoactive component can be enjoyed. No urine or reindeer necessary.