Did you think a poisonous fruit could take down Alicia Silverstone? On Aug. 20, the “Clueless” star biting into something that fans later identified as a potentially dangerous food. In the video, the actor appeared on a street in England and held up a small orange fruit that looked similar to a cherry tomato.
“OK, I’ve discovered something that I can’t figure out what it is, and I need your help. I just bit into it because it was on the street and we were discussing whether this was a tomato or not,” she said, accidentally dropping the item on the ground. The 47-year-old then panned the camera over to the outside garden where she found the fruit and said she wasn’t sure what it was.
“It’s definitely not (a tomato) because look at these leaves,” she said. Silverstone then implored her fans to help her figure out what she had bitten into, saying she was in England. “So, what the heck is this? Because when you open it up, it looks like that,” she said and showed the fruit on the ground.
“And if I bite it — I don’t think you’re supposed to eat this — but it’s almost like a pepper? Does anyone know what this is?” Social media users were quick to flood the comments with reactions. “Eating random stuff from bushes when you don’t know what it is, is a level of non anxiety that I can only aspire to,” one wrote. Another commented, “Girl! berries are either great or freaking poisonous! Don’t eat rando bush-things.
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