Mushrooms scare the shit out of me but here in my adopted country mushroom picking is a national pastime. I always defer to my wife about them, she grew up in the forest around our cabin in the woods and knows these things.
Even then, I will ask "what about this one?" and she will reply that she isn't sure. And it gets worse, last time we were out she mentioned that some mushrooms are fine in one season but become poisonous over the next few seasons.
It's basically a game of Russian roulette.
Trusting your life to some server farm thousands of miles away? That old Jap should have known better.
Yep, don't fuck around with fungus 🍄🟫 it is different in every region and country in the world.
A place I lived near had a bunch of Asian college students all die because they went mushroom 🍄 hunting and picked up what looked edible (it would have been if they were back home). However... In the USA it was a type of death cap that caused them all to die a quick but extremely painful death.
I had North American field survival books when I was a kid. They had color pictures of all of the mushrooms that you could find and little write ups about if they were edible, poisonous or had some other property. Anyhow, at the top of that section, they advised to just never eat wild mushrooms becauee even experts can misidentify them and get the big problems that go with that.
Gruesome.
Mushroom poisoning is very insidious like that. You can't boil or roast or dry the toxins away, nothing works. And when you thought it did, and you had great dinner with very tasty mushrooms, you won't wake up tomorrow because you just got lethally poisoned and you don't even know it yet. There are many stories like that.
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