According to the BBC News, Saturday Kitchen host Antony Worrall Thompson once told an interviewer that the wild plant henbane was “great in salads.” There’s a teensy little problem with that particular piece of advice. Henbane, according to the U.S. Forest Service, is highly poisonous, causing “loss of muscular control, dilation of the pupils, heart palpitation, hallucinations, delirium (‘madness’) and in large doses, coma, and death.”
Turns out what Worrall Thompson actually meant to say was fat hen, better known in North America as lamb’s quarters, which, per Edible Wild Food, is a very much edible — healthy, in fact! — weed that is presumably great in salads. A slip of the tongue can happen to anyone, but that one could have had particularly dire consequences. Thankfully, no one seems to have heeded Worrall Thompson’s advice, which seems like a wise course of action, at least when it comes to his thoughts on weeds.
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