Also, if I ever swallow a bay leaf, nobody here will ever hear of it, unless it somehow makes the news and I was a really funny Darwin Award recipient because of it.
If I didn't want to call the doctor right away, I would probably go to WebMD or someplace first, or call the poison center if I was really scared.
You're all great people but this isn't the first place I think of when I want medical advice.
I'm not familiar with this primitive, but based on her thread titles alone, she appears to be a silly old woman, much like Judy "grasswire" but perhaps not as addled. (However, don't take that for Gospel, as first impressions can be deceiving.)
I've heard the old adage about not swallowing a bay leaf since I was a young lad, but one time I did, from a bowl of stew at Duffy's Tavern in Lincoln, Nebraska, when I was in college. I however didn't worry about it, despite that bay leaves are "supposed" to be poisonous. If they were poisonous, why would they be cooked in food? No ill effects, although I could tell I swallowed it.
Duffy's was a college bar, but it's a state law in Nebraska--still on the books but not enforced, although it seems generally observed (I haven't ever seen a bar in this state without it)--that a business serving alcoholic beverages has to keep a pot of fresh soup available for customers.
Duffy's stew was made by an ancient woman with an accent; she's probably dead by now, and I wonder if they still have that stew. It was excellent. But it was the first and only stew I ever saw, and had, that had bay leaves in it. One wonders what bay leaves do for it.
