For a serious answer, there’s a whole process you can follow. It’s basically going from minimum exposure up through eating a small bit of it and waiting multiple hours to days between steps. If any show signs of being irritating or worse, don’t eat/use that plant. It’s slow enough that if you had to rely on it for finding your sole source of food, you’re going to have a rough, hungry time.
Something like:
Rub a little on hardier parts of your skin, wait and see.
Break up the plant to expose more of it and rub that on a small patch, wait and see.
Try it on more sensitive skin areas, wait and see.
Try holding a bit in your mouth, spit it out. Wait and see.
Chew some up, spit it out and wait and see.
Eat a tiny amount, wait and see.
I’m probably forgetting some steps, too. It’s genuinely very slow.
Worse yet, there are plenty of plants/fungi that would still fuck you up or kill you doing it this way, so the OP still has a point.
Fun fact: You can figure out if a plant is poisonous/toxic without snorting a fat line of it.
Yes, but not everyone wants to wipe leaves on their anus in front of others.
Bold move to start there, but someone’s got to do it.
you can just wipe them on your arm.
But how else can you tell for sure?
For a serious answer, there’s a whole process you can follow. It’s basically going from minimum exposure up through eating a small bit of it and waiting multiple hours to days between steps. If any show signs of being irritating or worse, don’t eat/use that plant. It’s slow enough that if you had to rely on it for finding your sole source of food, you’re going to have a rough, hungry time.
Something like:
I’m probably forgetting some steps, too. It’s genuinely very slow.
Worse yet, there are plenty of plants/fungi that would still fuck you up or kill you doing it this way, so the OP still has a point.