A woman named Mrs. Shaw made the news in the Lancaster Gazette, 1830, when she accidentally poisoned everyone at her dinner party, including herself.
Best not to mix that arsenic and bold taste.
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That is incredible! I would have thought also that if the pot had been washed an reused in the meantime that it was safe. Moral of this story is to keep one pot for killing rats!