Re: YANI: smell food command



On 16 Nov 2005 22:37:53 +0000 (GMT), Martin Read
<mpread@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scribed into the ether:

>"rpresser" <rpresser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>If I get a chance to smell the contents of a tin before eating it, why
>>don't I get a chance to sniff a corpse before eating it?
>>
>>Yeah, I know, it would ruin the current game balance, and Nethack Is
>>Not Reality. But seriously, don't you think if I lift a zombie corpse,
>>I'm going to smell the corruption and consider not eating it?
>
>It should be noted that in the real world, meat can taste and smell
>*absolutely fine* and still harbour a potentially lethal quantity of
>food-poisoning bacteria.

But it also takes a while for them to be harmful. Certainly not
instantaneous. Any meat that is *that* tainted is going to be easily
discerned.
.



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