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100% thought this would be about eating jellyfish (which I'm completely on board with because they've stung me upwards of a dozen times and that old Klingon proverb that says that revenge, much like jellyfish, is a dish best served cold).

Apropos of stinging plants though both of my parents are supposedly very allergic to poison ivy. I maintained an immunity to it until I was around 27-28 when it began to affect me very slightly. Now if I graze it I can get away without ill effects merely by washing the urushiol off with dish soap within a half hour or so. I've heard of gardeners and outdoorspeople eating it in small quantities to maintain their resistance to it. While I'm not particularly keen to try this there is something poetic about it.



I have severe food allergies and have used desensitization to expand what I can eat. It can take months and occasionally backfires, but it works.


Subsequent exposure to poison ivy definitely increases, not decreases, the reaction, at least in my family's genes.

My dad got exposed a few times in a row and had to stop eating cashews (same plant family) for awhile.


> eating it in small quantities

Risking your throat closing up seems Darwinian.

People don't usually have an Epipen within reach?


Eh, jellyfish isn't really any good. For the money, there's many better things to eat. I should admit I've only had it the once, but that's enough for me.




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