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Whenever I find a bay leaf in my soup/stew, I always eat it. I've been told I'm not supposed to do that, so I've been wondering if it can be dangerous in any way?
Some varieties are poisonous. Not the ones we use in cooking, by the way. But people can be pretty stupid and so the assumption is that all bay leaves are poisonous. It's safer that way.
My dad almost died from one. He choked on one at his work because the cook slipped one in the soup by accident. It wasn't supposed to be in the kind of soup he had, and he never noticed it in there. He was rushed to the hospital from work.
The sick part about it, was that my own mom and siblings get a little chuckle about it today. I think its pretty serious and not a laughing matter when someone chokes on something, and of course, at the time no one was laughing, but my mom and siblings look back and joke about it sometimes. He couldn't even speak, and his face changed colors. Thankfully, his friend was on break with him, and saw that he was choking. They said that if it would've shifted like even an inch more, he would've been dead.