Peaches

[alSeen]

has anyone noticed in the WoT world peaches are poisonous? can anyone explain how that happened like did RJ say anything about it?

[Tintomara]

*confused*
I must have missed that! Any example of where you read that?

[Tim]

From wotmania's FAQs:

Peach
Peaches are poisonous in the Third Age of the Wheel Of Time world (they were not in the Age of Legends (Winter’s Heart, Wonderful News)), and the pit is the most poisonous part of the peach. It is a rapid-acting poison, rapid enough to use on a weapon. The assassins who attacked Elayne had daggers poisoned with gray fennel and powdered peach pit. One of the assassins was stabbed with a poisoned dagger by Hanlon and died – poisoned by both the fennel and the peach pit according to Nynaeve (Winter’s Heart, A Plan Succeeds), judging by the appearance of the dead man’s eyes and tongue. Kernels of Prunus tree fruits (such as apricot, cherry and bitter almond (bred out of sweet almond)) contain compounds which make cyanide when crushed. Cyanide is indeed a rapid-acting poison. The unripe fruits of Prunus species release cyanide when eaten, as poisonous as the Wheel of Time ripe peaches.

Also, from RJ's blog, October 5th, 2005:

{71}For Child of Lir, peaches being poisonous in the world of tWoT is one of the things I did to make the world different. Though peach pits do contain small amounts of cyanide, which was once manufactured through processing peach pits. Several other fruits with pits, such as apricots, also have trace amounts of cyanide in the pits. And almonds may be the first genetically engineered plant since humans bred the deadly, to humans, cyanide levels out them to make them edible for people.

[nirb]

I read somewhere that RJ just wanted it that way.

I think there are a couple of "as sure as peaches are poison" quotes as well.

I love peaches, why not liver?

[alSeen]

im like peaches too. but tim that was EXACTLY the quote i thought of in the book. didnt know where it was though. thanks u