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I once had a nasty case of food poisoning from a zucchini salad that I made. I always assumed it was from not washing them properly or undercooking them, but maybe this was it! In any case, my wife still hates zucchini even though it’s been many years since that incident.

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TL;DR- Do not under any circumstance eat a vegetable which does not taste the way its supposed to taste.

Bitter gourd tasting sweet ? Bottle gourd/Cucumber/Zuccini/Pumpkin tasting bitter ? Straight to the trash.

In India a lot of elderly drink raw veggie juice on empty stomach in the morning and they don't usually discard veggies like this because bought with 'hard earned money' and die because of the toxicity. Two of several cases.[1][2]

[1]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/healthy-woman-...

[2]https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/man-dies-afte...

Re: Toxic squash syndrome

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I once had a nasty case of food poisoning from a zucchini salad that I made. I always assumed it was from not washing them properly or undercooking them, but maybe this was it! In any case, my wife still hates zucchini even though it’s been many years since that incident.

Your wife loves you very much and/or your nasty food poisoning had very nasty external effects.

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I once had a nasty case of food poisoning from a zucchini salad that I made. I always assumed it was from not washing them properly or undercooking them, but maybe this was it! In any case, my wife still hates zucchini even though it’s been many years since that incident.

Your wife loves you very much and/or your nasty food poisoning had very nasty external effects.

> Your wife loves you very much

That's generally the idea of marriage.

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Is there a public list of HN's special cases? Like how GitHub repos are listed by user path, I think some sites show subdomains, if there are URL patterns that do or don't get stripped off submissions. Would be interesting to read if it's not sensitive.

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I have a friend who is mercifully* mildly allergic to the entire ragweed* family so I guess this means that there is an up side to it :D

* It's not a common allergy and the fruit and vegetables in encompasses are often used lightly in all sorts of foods without being explicitly listed. She once even got a cocktail with something (possibly cucumber?)

* All squash, pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, zucchini, etc

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