What's up with the ginkgo hate on this story?

The roasted or cooked nut of the ginkgo tastes good and is filling. Not something to eat in volume anyways. You'd probably quit before any toxicity manifests.

The fruit looks appetizing and at most smells a little funky when there are tons of them around a female tree.

I have always known it's inedible to humans so I have never tried but it could taste like custard given its color. Presumably whatever used to disperse it could eat it.

Other coniferous arils are tasty and sweet like yew for example even though the nut is supposed to be very poisonous.

> contact dermatitis

Lots of food is like this, for example mangoes.

In university, one year, our building started smelling like there had been a sewage overflow. Pretty soon, everything around started smelling like this - the stores, restaurants, cinema, etc. in central campus was stinking. It was soon found out that the decorative Ginko trees planted in the central part of campus were fruiting (probably for the first time since planting) and the fruit was getting crushed underfoot and carried everywhere. The smell took a few weeks to go away.

I eat foods with long history of co-evolution and domestication.

Barley and Yogurt, they are the dogs we domesticated from wolves that changed us too.

Daily barley water is a life changer, I don't think our digestive systems really function without a smidgen of daily barley.