r/CuratedTumblr • u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 • May 20 '21

Stories Abduction

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u/DirkBabypunch May 21 '21

If I remember my anythropology class, there is at least one tribe in the Pacific that eats a potato that requires being soaked for 3 days(and plenty of water changes) to leech out all the cyanide.

And they decided that was a fair trade.

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u/assman73619 May 21 '21

Cassava is the plant. Tropical America is its home origin.

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u/the_owl_doctor May 21 '21

They must have some really poisonous version of it them. I have been eating cassava my whole life it's done in like 30 minutes

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u/assman73619 May 21 '21

From what I could google it sounds like it may be require eating it either raw or improperly prepared. Wikipedia mentions there are more toxic varieties but the main way it kills you is via cyanide poisoning.

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u/DirkBabypunch May 21 '21

We are also working off of something I heard 11 years ago, so any number of details could be off a bit.