"Woman's weapon," my ass.

[amanuensis1]

I read an interesting fic this morning, and it made me think: if you're going to serve someone poisoned food--the kind that needs cooking and assembling--how can you tell if the food's cooked to palatability before you serve it? You can't very well taste it and see. So you'd have to put the poison in at the end. But then you'd have this pot sitting on the stove and what if someone came in and said, "Oh, stew!" and sampled some? So it'd be safer to put it in the individual bowl it was going to be served in. But then you'd have to mix it around in the bowl to mix in the poison. And be careful not to lick the spoon after. And what if it got sloshed around the edges of the bowl and didn't look pristine for serving; then you'd have to put it in another bowl. And wash the first one real quick, before you took the poisoned one out for serving. And what gets out poison residue from dishware? Do you just use regular liquid detergent? Maybe you should throw away the bowl. But what if someone finds it in the garbage; then that's evidence. And what if it's the kind of poison that needs to be cooked into the food a little so the victim doesn't taste it? Then we're back to the pot on the stove. Damn, this is tricky.

Yes, I think about this kind of stuff.

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[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Read something a few years back where just about everyone at the feast ate the poison, but everyone also took the antidote, which was in the water. Only the one who was intended to die, who was known to have an aversion to the water, didn't get the antidote.

[dien.livejournal.com]

Clever! But I think there'd be a faint chance of someone not drinking the water just because they weren't thirsty, and that might blow it all...

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

The book had this thing about how toasts had to be made in water and in wine, and this was at a royal wedding where there were going to be lots of toasts...don't wanna say in case anyone wants to read it. ^_^

[dien.livejournal.com]

Oh, well that works then. :) But what book is this, pray tell?

And omfg, I love that icon. Can I userpicks it?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was made by evolutioneve and is gankable with credit! I love it. ^_^

[dien.livejournal.com]

Rock! Danke.