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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Banana w/peanut butter and mini chocolate chips.

Saltines with butter and jelly

[b]Raw potatoes and/or scallions with salt[/quote][/b]

You snack on raw potatoes ?[/quote]

Don't raw potatoes kill dogs?[/quote]

I’m not sure. I’m human and have been eating them since childhood.[/quote]

Raw potatoes can make you very sick, especially the eyes, spouts, or green parts.  I know a single father who prepared potatoes for himself and his daughter, but undercooked them.  They both got very sick - he was hospitalized for weeks and was out of work for months.  It's not common (because most people don't eat raw or undercooked potatoes) but it happens.

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-809/potato

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PP here.  You have to click through the WebMD link to get to the part about raw potatoes, but this is what it says:

It is LIKELY UNSAFE to eat damaged potatoes, green potatoes, and sprouts. These can contain poisonous chemicals that cannot be destroyed by cooking. These poisonous chemicals can cause sweating, headache, flushing, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, thirst, restlessness, and even death.[/quote]

PP again -- I realized I wrote "single dad" which had nothing to do with his cooking and I didn't mean it in a critical way about his parenting -- it's just that it has always stuck in my mind because he was such a good guy, trying so hard in really difficult circumstances, and then his life was upended by this (they had very few resources and the financial impact was devastating). [/quote]

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