Owain wrote:

"Mike" wrote
| "r.p.mcmurphy" wrote
| i heard that antifreeze tastes sweet
| So does cyanide I believe.

I have always believed that it tasted of bitter almonds. Miss D L Sayers
("Bitter Almonds" (A Montague Egg Story): In the teeth of the evidence,
Gollancz, 1939.) is usually reliable on poisons.

Apparently, the ability to detect the almondy scent of cyanide is genetic -
if you don't have the right gene, you won't be able to smell or taste it.

Sheila
(I really must re-read the Sayers books.)