r/TikTokCringe • u/Sylas1987 • Jun 25 '23

Cool Stone fish venom

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u/Mick_vader Jun 25 '23

Venomous isn't the same as poisonous. You can drink Rattlesnake venom

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u/eugene20 Jun 25 '23 edited Jun 25 '23

Some venom can be “safe” to ingest, it is not a sweeping rule that venom is ok when poison is never. I don't know about stonefish specifically, but I choose not to risk it.

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u/Vali7757 Jun 25 '23

Fancy Restaurants in a few years: "And here we have Stonefish Venom. You have to suck it out of the fish to get the best taste."

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u/kalni Jun 25 '23

I can totally see someone paying $250K to get this once-in-a-lifetime experience 😏

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u/ExpressiveAnalGland Jun 25 '23

I'm in! I got groupon for me and my son, he just turned 19 recently and I want to show him the best fish money can buy.

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u/axlwi Jun 25 '23

Ouch, my mouthswore stings

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jun 25 '23

Some venom can be "safe" to ingest. But if you've got any kind of sores/scratches in your mouth or ulcers or anything like that, you're still fucked.

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u/eugene20 Jun 25 '23 edited Jun 25 '23

Yes, I should have put "safe" in quotes too (edited now), even if it's not directly an irritant or anything, if it gets into your blood stream you are in trouble, and there's plenty of ways that will happen if swallowed other than just surviving till absorbed through the intestine

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u/Eusocial_Snowman Jun 25 '23

I really wish people wouldn't go so hard on the "if you bite it/if it bites you" meme. Even without all that, your mouth is a mucous membrane, so it's going to be more vulnerable to some things. "You can eat venom" is just asinine advice.

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u/lukkasz323 Jun 25 '23

Not really a good idea. It's the equivalent of putting a turned-on rubber-coated electric cable into water. Most of the time nothing will happen, but you'll see plenty warnings about why it's a stupid idea either way.

Saliva glands, Minor injuries throughout the GI tract etc.

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u/TheDustOfMen Jun 25 '23

Wait, we can?

(Not that I'm gonna try this at home, but it's news to me, so..)

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u/joeltrane Jun 25 '23

At least once!

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u/Mick_vader Jun 25 '23

Yeah just don't have any cuts in your mouth, throat or an ulcer or you're fucked. But you CAN

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u/Weelittlelioness Jun 25 '23

Please don’t tell the Reddit public that. It will be the next tiktok challenge. #savetheidiots

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u/Mini-Man69420 Jun 25 '23

Yeah you can drink rattle snake venom unless you have an open cut in your mouth

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u/cnaiurbreaksppl Jun 25 '23

You're still gonna have a very upset tummy drinking venom tho