cleb
Today, I found out that the seeds of the Cherimoya fruit are toxic. I found out by eating the entire fruit, including all seeds. FML
Collection
Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Same thing different taste
Anonymous
Germany
Nature is healing
Today, I ended up in the hospital by accidentally eating poisonous berries, from a plant that I've known since childhood to be poisonous, which I also recognized as belonging to the nightshade family. I still don’t understand what made them look tasty. Brain fart of the century, I guess. FML
Anonymous
Juicy
Today, I got excited when I learned that the fruit on the trees by my apartment building was ripe and free to pick. I picked myself some juicy summer plums and enjoyed them. Minutes later, my tongue started burning painfully. Turns out, I'm allergic to plums. FML
Anonymous
Bisbee, United States
Influencer brain
Today, I decided to be adventurous and try a new exotic fruit. I bought a dragon fruit, but no one warned me that it looks better on Instagram than it tastes. Now I have a fridge full of disappointment and a dragon fruit that's more like a dragon letdown. FML
Anonymous
Tasty
Today, I found out that my kids played around with a bunch of caterpillars they'd found in the yard, then informed me they'd eaten a few. I then had to scramble to Google "Is this kind of caterpillar poisonous?" FML
Ryuuchild666
Today, I bought a 3 lb bag of pears. The first two bites were delicious! The third bite revealed a worm and its thousands of eggs. FML
Anonymous
Lebanon, United States
Today, I found out that I am allergic to one of the preservatives that they put in aloe. I found this out after I put some on a severe sunburn I have. Not only am I sunburned, but now I am severely itchy as well. FML
Anonymous
Milford, United States
Today, instead of reaching for some unhealthy food, I tried to eat some dates instead. It was all fine until I bit one in half and saw a rather large, squirming maggot inside. FML
Anonymous
Pica?
Today, my mom ate some flowers without knowing if they were safe. Turns out they are slightly poisonous and she had an upset stomach, but she will be fine. Her excuse? "I didn't know it had poison." I had to explain that's exactly why you don't eat plants you don't know are poisonous or not. FML
kp.
This FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff
Australia
Gotta have it
Today, I found ants all over my chocolate, but I'm so addicted that I just wiped them off and ate it anyway. FML
rivercitybarf
United States
Today, I found out that worms in apples aren't something that you just see in cartoons. FML
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Glowworm56 27
Anyone else immediately look up what a cherimoya fruit was after reading this?
julfunky 29
A safe way to go about eating any fruit: don’t eat the seeds unless you know they are safe.
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Glowworm56 27
Anyone else immediately look up what a cherimoya fruit was after reading this?
Zekfen 17
I did, but I stopped reading when they quoted somebody as saying it is better than pineapple. Inconceivable! Just for future reference for people, the pits of peaches, cherries, plums and apricots are also deadly poisonous when ingested because the turn into a form of cyanide.
Ilmoran 20
Although they do contain a compound that breaks down into hydrogen cyanide, you would have to eat around thirty raw peach pits (even more of the others) in a day to get enough cyanide to suffer any ill effects. And then it would take even more to get seriously ill.
dino-rex 16
Well, it's true. They are usually better than pineapples (and believe me, I love pineapple). As for eating the seeds... they are pretty darn big, it's like swallowing a huge pill each time!
Xandler 8
Apple seeds as well. I want to say most if not all fruits that contain a "pit" of some sort are poisonous because they contain a form of cyanide after metabolization. The amount you need to consume can be on the high end of the spectrum though.
julfunky 29
A safe way to go about eating any fruit: don’t eat the seeds unless you know they are safe.
RichardPencil 32
Don’t eat a Chlamydia fruit — it’s all toxic!
Adam Daniel 20
No joke tho I was in the Philippines and I ate one of these. Good as fuuuuuuck
LAUGHINGKOMODO 25
Tell me when you dead.
interesting33 37
googled it. these are supposed to be amazing, like incredible. But the seeds and skin are very toxic.
ARISKomuniszt 24
This is the fault of Capitalism. ... oh wait, maybe I should stop doing this or I'll get the masses of downvotes again...
Davros 12
Think my girlfriend had cherimoya once but pretty sure she just needed some antibiotics.
blahblabbity 19
but who actually eats the seeds of any fruit??
julfunky 29
Many people eat the seeds of pomegranates.
blahblabbity 19
i always eat the flesh and spit the hard part out. i assumed everyone did that lol
BiGTiMeNeRD 29
You telling me you spit out banana seeds?
LAUGHINGKOMODO 25
How about kiwi seeds? or strawberry seeds? or any berry lol?
blahblabbity 19
but those are tiny and not ROCK HARD
DanielleinDC 34
Well, yeah, when you eat pomegranates, what you're eating is the seeds. You don't eat the rind.
dwight7476 11
Seeds make shit it you want instead laxative it’s the way to go