Have you ever eaten bay leaves?

My friend made some vegan chili tonight for peoples. I was telling her about how you're not supposed to eat bay leaves right before she crushed them up and put them in the chili haha.. I just wanna know if any of you have ever eaten bay leaves before... and you're okay? Hah. I know you can't digest them and stuff. The only information I found when I researched it was just on some forums and some people say its fine but a few people said it can like scratch your organs or something... yeah so I'm hoping thats not true.
So any experiences here? Help me out.. I'm paranoiddd

 

you'll be fine...its just hard to get the leaf down. if she chopped it up and what not, no worries.

 

Sounds unlikely for them to do much harm besides maybe giving you the shits or something. Then again, we ARE talking about chili here - chances are, you won't even know the difference!

 

i smoked bay leaves once!1 oh man im never doing that again i became really paranoid after and had smoked nothing pryer or had anything to drink my pipe was clean so there was no residue to blame these feeling on lol but here me out when i tell you they have affects!!!scary ones, i saw nothing adn didnt hear any voices or whatnot but its just normal sounds creaking stairs dogs barking in the neighbourhood all terrified me and non ehad done so before i started crying at one point i was absolutly terrified!!

 

I have put bay leaves in veggie chilli but could not find them to take them out when it was done. So apparently someone ate them and everyone is fine, so I wouldn't worry about it.

 

most people just pick them out.. i wouldnt imagine why someone would eat one.. they are very tough

 

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