Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!amdcad!lll-crg!caip!atux01!hedden From: hedden@atux01.UUCP (D. Hedden) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: Killer Apples Message-ID: <162@atux01.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 14:38:55 EST Article-I.D.: atux01.162 Posted: Mon Feb 10 14:38:55 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Feb-86 20:14:38 EST References: <3012@pesnta.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: CSEd, AT&T Communications, Piscataway, N.J. Lines: 10 Summary: Apples not deadly In article <3012@pesnta.UUCP>, earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace) writes: > I heard that the seeds of apples contains arsenic or strychnine (or something > like that). If you chew about 10+ seeds, you're a gonner. Any truth to this > I wonder? Believe it or not, I know two people who regularly eat an entire apple, core and all. They have been doing it for years, and plan to do it tomorrow if they are still alive. "The moving hand writes ..."