Danger, Will Robinson

Food gets scarier all the time. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has added Mexican serranos to salmonella warning. A sample tested positive for the rare Saintpaul strain of salmonella. The FDA warns that consumers should avoid eating raw serrano or jalapeno peppers from Mexico at the current time.

Of course, there are more foods that can whup up on consumers. According to an AP story, British celebrity chef Anthony Worrall Thompson has apologized to the readers of Healthy and Organic Living magazine for mistakenly recommending henbane instead of fat hen as a salad ingredient. The latter is a member of the spinach family whose leaves are edible, the former whose name means “killer of hens,” is a toxic plant that can cause hallucinations, drowsiness and disorientation if ingested. Oops.