Ok, show of hands, how many of you run around the wilderness in BatMUD eating
vegetables and fruit? Thought so. Plants are used mainly (I don't wanna say
"exclusively" here because some smartass will remind me of the two rangers
that actually cook up a vegetable stew every other month) by druids and
alchemists who use them for spells and potions. That's why you need a skill to
identify, pick and handle them. As if you didn't know that already. The
slender orange cone I had turned out not to be a regular carrot once I asked
someone with high plant lore, it was a mystic carrot. I'm sure Ugg the Grunt
wouldn't know the difference even though he ate enough of them to make him
shit orange. (He'd probably shit sparkling and humming orange from the mystic
carrots.)

CM