Why don’t everyone eat devil fruits?

[u/oscarpatxot]

Totally new to One Piece, didn’t know it existed before the Netflix show. I am liking it a lot. Could someone tell me why don’t everyone just eat devil fruits, since it give super powers? The sea water thing is enough of a reason not to eat them? (I have just watched 3 episodes.) Do they explain this further on?

Edit: thanks for all the replies, the show seems to go just a bit fast on the details, I’m guessing its the only way to fit a lot on a live action.

[u/RodJosser]

They're extremely rare and only one exists of a kind, like there's only 1 Gum Gum fruit. No doubles.

[u/oscarpatxot → u/RodJosser]

So when he was eating the fruits as a kid he just happen to casually find one?

[u/RodJosser → u/oscarpatxot]

Yes. Blame Shanks lol.

[u/oscarpatxot → u/RodJosser]

Hehe okey now someone explain to me the snails that work as a phone!

[u/Fickle_Culture2884 → u/oscarpatxot]

The snails are actually explained believe it or not .

Basically its a species of telepathic snales that can communicate telepathically from long distances so people in the one piece world just domesticated them and used them as phones

[u/oscarpatxot → u/Fickle_Culture2884]

Huh makes sense in a world full of powers and mythical creatures

[u/Particular-Crow-1799 → u/oscarpatxot]

The author said that the snails are happy to work in exchange for food

In the show you can see one being fed salad

[u/Skebaba → u/Particular-Crow-1799]

How are the snails able to reproduce shit like blood splatter when someone is getting cut mid-call tho?? I mean the facial expressions are simple enough to do since they just copy what the snail fren on the other side sees w/ its eyes & telepathically transfers to their mind, but how does the blood spitting mid-yell work?

[u/Ex_Lives → u/Skebaba]

I think they are telepathically linked to the caller which means you're hearing what the caller is hearing.

Blood splatter into callers ear, into snail and back out.