why don't more authors kill with undercooked food?

[doowopgirl]

Yesterday I had some green fish and carrots after reading the thread in the Ka-Tet Indicant...thought the fish looked a bit undercooked...blue hake...but it all came out in the wash and I flushed 'er down! But yeah, you don't read too much about food kills. Maybe it's too iffy. Where ya been!

I did once read a story where a woman fed her husband t death. Nothing poison, just rich and sweet and loads of it.

 

[doowopgirl]

How long ago did you read those books Autumn Gust?

I went through a V.C. Andrews phase. I found it really creepy the way the kids were hidden in the attic.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

I've heard that a small amount of polar bear liver is enough to kill, to overdose on something...vitamin A? Heard this in a nutrition class way back when...so someone offers you polar bear liver? You call Judge Judy. You take 'em to court! Take 'em for all they got. And get PETA involved. They have a swat team.

 

[Neesy]

I've heard that a small amount of polar bear liver is enough to kill, to overdose on something...vitamin A? Heard this in a nutrition class way back when...so someone offers you polar bear liver? You call Judge Judy. You take 'em to court! Take 'em for all they got. And get PETA involved. They have a swat team.

I better tell Andy in case he ever has to go to Churchill Manitoba (where the polar bears live). Right now he is in Nunavut and where he is, all they have are caribou, Arctic fox, muskox, Arctic hare etc.
oh yeah, and Arctic char as well out of Baker Lake (yummy!)

 

[AnnaMarie]

There's a fish that has been used in stories to kill people. It must be prepared by a chef (Asian) specially trained in how to prepare it or it is deadly.

 

[Neesy]

There's a fish that has been used in stories to kill people. It must be prepared by a chef (Asian) specially trained in how to prepare it or it is deadly.

Oh right - I think that was the theme of a TV show I saw where someone was murdered using this fish. Is it the blowfish?

 

[Dana Jean]

Oh right - I think that was the theme of a TV show I saw where someone was murdered using this fish. Is it the blowfish?

There is a Columbo episode where a chef is murdered using this fish, it was put in his wine.

 

[MadamMack]

Love that movie!

Me too . . .she was cooking that turkey way under-temp.

 

[Bryan James]

Fugu can wreck your day eternally.

 

[AnnaMarie]

Oh right - I think that was the theme of a TV show I saw where someone was murdered using this fish. Is it the blowfish?

I was thinking blowfish too. So, we'll say yes.

 

[Dana Jean]

Fugu can wreck your day eternally.

THis was the fish poison they used in Columbo.

 

[mstay]

Me too . . .she was cooking that turkey way under-temp.

And her two brothers told the new boyfriend not to eat it. And he did anyway because he loved her! Boy was he sick!!

 

[Autumn Gust]

How long ago did you read those books Autumn Gust?

I saw the film first, in the late eighties. I picked up the whole set of books (five total) from a thriftstore shortly after that. They were sappy and like a soap opera but still fun in a Peyton Place kind of way.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...my ex-wife tripped over the carpet and damn near decapitated my parents with a platter of pork-chops...

 

[Grandpa]

Yup, the polar bear's liver has toxic levels of vitamin A.

And the fish is the blowfish or, more accurately, the pufferfish. It's fugu in Japanese, and it's apparently easy to get the fish flesh poisoned, so the fugu chef has intensive training to keep that from happening.

I dunno. After experiences with buffets, I'm not feeling lucky, food-wise, enough to try it. If I'm going to risk my life, I'd rather it be through my own actions.

And my memory of the poison fish from entertainment media is an episode of the Simpsons. I don't remember it all that much, but apparently Homer didn't die.

 

[HollyGolightly]

...my ex-wife tripped over the carpet and damn near decapitated my parents with a platter of pork-chops...

You too, huh? I wonder how many of us have an ex-spouse? I always say it's best to get that first marriage out of the way early. Losing a platter of pork chops would be a deal breaker for me. I love pork and pork fat.

 

[HollyGolightly]

Let's not forget white oleander - though not a food technically, it can be concealed in food. Michelle Pfeiffer got into big trouble for that stuff.

 

[Out of Order]

With my wife's cooking it's a wonder I'm not killed every night.

 

[HollyGolightly]

With my wife's cooking it's a wonder I'm not killed every night.

You stop that!
I once rinsed spaghetti sauce off of some ground beef and reused it for stroganoff - but I didn't have any cream of mushroom soup for the stroganoff, so I substituted French onion dip. Then I cooked the green beans with vinegar instead of the Italian dressing because I didn't have the Italian dressing. All of this insanity in the same meal. You should have seen his face. This was way early in our marriage -like 2 or 3 weeks into it, and he's still scared of me.

 

[fushingfeef]

There's a Roald Dahl short story where a woman beats her husband to death with a frozen leg of lamb, then serves the murder weapon to the investigating policemen, destroying the evidence.