Might have been one of the poor sods the tribal leaders hand picked to test which mushrooms and other hunter-gatherer fodder was safe and which not. That or some bloke whose missus was trying to poison him with something she reckoned was so nasty looking it had to be deadly.
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Boxox, AKA "beef tea". Remember that?