LORELAI: Are you sure you didn’t just accidentally drop something in the food tonight, like, I don’t know, uh, strychnine or manure?
Strychnine, a highly toxic, colourless, bitter, crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly for killing rodents. Strychnine, when inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the eyes or mouth, causes poisoning which results in muscular convulsions and eventually death through asphyxia.
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