That's a good point.

Also, spices can hide the fact that the food's gone slightly off due to improper preservation (at least until it comes out one end or the other in a ballistic fashion, but then it's possibly too late to pass the blame), so there might have been a bit of that, too.

Still, it's funny how we love eating stuff that'd kill or seriously inconvenience most everything else.

We are weird creatures indeed.