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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: K Frame on May 13, 2022, 10:43:49 AM
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Mushroom roulette!
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/7-poisonous-mushrooms-and-what-happens-if-you-eat-them?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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What happens when you eat them?
You die, and report the circumstances of your death to your friends so they don't eat them.
Seriously, I wonder how many deaths had to occur before the co-relation between a given mushroom and its effects became known. Kind of strange to think about.
I'll stick to canned mushrooms, thank you, where a known species was grown in a known dark room and was fed with known decaying matter.
And one also wonders, from a Darwinian species-survival viewpoint, what advantage do poisonous mushrooms have, with no obvious warning mechanism, for the survival of that particular species? Kind of like the "deadly virus" question, where a species kills its own host.
Could it be simply that a dead victim provides food for more mushrooms?
'Tis a puzzlement.
Terry, 230RN
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I avoid the whole Is That Mushroom Poisonous by not eating mushrooms.
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I avoid the whole Is That Mushroom Poisonous by not eating mushrooms.
Correct answer.
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Canned = good. (Until some mushroom farmer hires some illiterate bonehead to tend the crop and the bonehead introduces another species like they do in the old country.)
I never really trusted rye bread after I heard about the ergot fungus.
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"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once" ― Terry Pratchett
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Correct answer.
Wrong. There are many tasty mushrooms that go wild in Missouri.
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Mycology is tricky. Very tricky. I know there's good editable mushrooms in the midwest, but I don't know enough about positively identifying them to be comfortable hunting and eating them. I do hunt morels, there aren't any close lookalikes to mistake them with. Probably part of why they are a popular mushroom to hunt.
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I probably forage at least 8 different types of wild mushrooms, I'm still here.
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Morels, puffball, and chicken of the woods. Everything else is sus.
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Hen of the woods, chantrels ...
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I just wanna know... How the hell did psilocybin actually make the long-term cut?
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I would say general mycology is very tricky, however targeted, regional foraging can be learned pretty easily. You don’t have to know what every mushroom is and how dangerous it is, you just have to know what your target looks like and how to distinguish it from any dangerous lookalikes. If you confine yourself to the major edible ones that grow near you then it is a much more achievable skill to pick up.
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I’ll take “Mushrooms in a can” for $100 Alec…… :P
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"Yeah, I wanna order a pizza. Pepperoni and sausage, extra cheese, and if I see a single shroom on it, I ain't tipping the driver."