This is why your mama told you not to eat slugs

[MillCreek]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/health/man-dies-after-eating-slug-on-dare/index.html

Cause you could get rat lungworm and die.

[230RN]

Didn't the Great Design Engineer In The Sky design something into most creatures to reject stuff like that?

[Ron]

Never a good idea to over rule the innate disgust response.

[Fly320s]

Everything in Australia can kill you.

[230RN]

Everything in Australia can kill you.

True, but  you don't have to invite them to.

Never a good idea to over rule the innate disgust response.

Speaking of the innate responses the Great Design Engineer In The Sky seems to have provided us with, I remember once jumping five feet to one side at a rattlesnake's rattle before I even integrated it.

It was like my ears had a direct connection to my legs and the hell with having the brain figure it out.  I understand horses show the same kind of reaction, but I can't verify that.

Terry, 230RN

[MechAg94]

Didn't the Great Design Engineer In The Sky design something into most creatures to reject stuff like that?

Do you mean the ability to make fire and actually cook stuff?

[makattak]

I have to admit, my mama never told me not to eat slugs.

In fact there's a whole host of things she never told me not to eat but normal human revulsion keeps me from eating them. Any kind of raw meat, for example.

I mean, at least COOK the thing!

[Hawkmoon]

I have to admit, my mama never told me not to eat slugs.

In fact there's a whole host of things she never told me not to eat but normal human revulsion keeps me from eating them. Any kind of raw meat, for example.

I mean, at least COOK the thing!

Seconded.

[cordex]

Didn't the Great Design Engineer In The Sky design something into most creatures to reject stuff like that?

Yes, but there is a built-in override to that rejection mechanism:  The double-dog-dare.

[230RN]

I seem to have discovered another innate reaction:  cats versus cucumbers.   Seems to be real, there is a whole set of youtubes on the subject.

Sample:

https://youtu.be/pXv44YL_Gio  (5:32, funny)

Looks like they mostly "integrate" it before "recognizing" it, unlike my rattlesnake experience, where there was no integration at all, I just leaped at the sound.

Curious, wot?  I've had cats throughout most of my life, never noticed this cucumber-cat reaction before coming across it in looking at "funny cat" videos.

Terry, 230RN

[Fly320s]

Has anyone tried a different vegetable?  Or something completely different, like a green sock?

In other words, I wonder if cats are startled by cucumbers or startled by an unexpected item magically appearing next to them.

[LadySmith]

Has anyone tried a different vegetable?  Or something completely different, like a green sock?

In other words, I wonder if cats are startled by cucumbers or startled by an unexpected item magically appearing next to them.

It's usually any unexpected item that looks even vaguely snake-like.
Cats & snakes really don't get along.

[lee n. field]

I have to admit, my mama never told me not to eat slugs.

Likewise.  Kind of assumed it was obvious.

Everything in Australia can kill you.

Tropical Africa's pretty good at that too.  All kinds of weird diseases and parasites.

Back in my Screw of I library days, this thing would pass through my hands every once in a while.  Much cringe inducing pics.  Much cringe.