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who the **** picks and eats the mushrooms from their backyard?

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http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/...ospitalized-after-eating-poisonous-mushrooms/

A Newington, Connecticut, family was saved by an experimental drug and charcoal after consuming a meal made with mushrooms picked from their backyard, the Hartford Courant reported.


Shah Noor, 40, picked the mushrooms from the yard and cooked them with onions, garlic and green chili peppers for dinner Thursday night. Early the next day, Noor’s husband Musarat Ullah, 59, and daughter Aiman Bibi, 21, began to experience severe stomach pains and went to St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. Dr. Danyal Ibraham, director of toxicology, told Ullah he should call home to check on the rest of the family.
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who can we blame for skyrocketing produce prices that are forcing people to eat shrooms from their backyard? i need to write a letter. :colbert:
 
They sound like foreigners. That mushroom doesn't look like anything edible in NA, but Wikipedia said the species poisoned some people in Minnesota who were from SE Asia because it looked like a species from home that was edible.
 
lxskllr said:
They sound like foreigners. That mushroom doesn't look like anything edible in NA, but Wikipedia said the species poisoned some people in Minnesota who were from SE Asia because it looked like a species from home that was edible.
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it was a frikkin white mushroom. i have them growing in my yard. shit, better tell my kids to stay away from that stuff. brb
 
If you going to pick a mushroom and eat it you BETTER have some knowledge about the species in your region.

Dumb asses. Darwin almost won.
 
Vdubchaos said:
If you going to pick a mushroom and eat it you BETTER have some knowledge about the species in your region.
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You gotta wonder how knowledge of mushrooms spread. The majority of them are poisonous, and you can't rely on animals to help you out. I think box turtles can eat poisonous mushrooms without issue. After seeing a few people die, I think I'd have to say fuck the mushrooms, it isn't worth the hassle.
 
lxskllr said:
You gotta wonder how knowledge of mushrooms spread. The majority of them are poisonous, and you can't rely on animals to help you out. I think box turtles can eat poisonous mushrooms without issue. After seeing a few people die, I think I'd have to say fuck the mushrooms, it isn't worth the hassle.
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The majority aren't poisonous but, also don't taste very good. It really isn't that hard to learn which mushrooms in your area are good to eat.
 
1)People who really know about mushrooms

2)People who really don't have a clue about mushrooms

That's who.
 
lxskllr said:
You gotta wonder how knowledge of mushrooms spread. The majority of them are poisonous, and you can't rely on animals to help you out. I think box turtles can eat poisonous mushrooms without issue. After seeing a few people die, I think I'd have to say fuck the mushrooms, it isn't worth the hassle.
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Well actually back in Poland mushroom picking was very common. When I was younger we used to go out and pick them every year. But we also knew all of the kinds of mushrooms/have the knowledge.

Obviously the climate was different.

In general, sponge on the bottom = safe and ripples/lines on the bottom = poisonous. HOWEVER there are always few kinds that above rule does NOT apply to. You can check easily by breaking the mushroom and touching it on your tongue, if it stings/burns = poisonous.

It's WELL worth the hassle. It's fun walking around the forest looking for them and also AMAZING to eat (when cooked right). Personally I love mushrooms.

Just a matter of doing the research/getting to know the species in the region.
 
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MagnusTheBrewer said:
The majority aren't poisonous but, also don't taste very good. It really isn't that hard to learn which mushrooms in your area are good to eat.
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I don't mean me. I can just get a field guide. I'm talking about the first people who said "Hey, you think we can eat that?". There had to be a lot of mistakes. Nothing says nom nom nomalicious like Destroying Angel :^D
 
My granny used to take me mushroom hunting when I visited. There's a variety called beefsteak (I don't know it's scientific name) that grows to impressive sizes. I remember bringing one back from a mushroom hunt that weighed 5 pounds.
 
I lived for a couple of months on an old estate in Wales, Mulsford Hall. Bunch of hippies, we were. You had to walk awhile just to get to the road.

We picked and ate mushrooms from our fields on an almost daily basis. No one died.
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
The majority aren't poisonous but, also don't taste very good. It really isn't that hard to learn which mushrooms in your area are good to eat.
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this.

here in Denmark we have 600 species of mushrooms, 30 or so are poisonous but only three are deadly. only a handful of mushrooms are what I'd call good eating mushrooms.

I remember going on a mushroom "hunt" with my kindergarten many years ago (this was what we call a forest kindergarten here in denmark, I think drpizza would approve of it), we had an expert from the danish fish and wildlife service join us and he taught us that you only need to know the ones that you can eat and wont confuse with other species. young "almindelig blækhat" (sorry don't know the english word for it) is edible and also works like disulfiram if you want to play a trick on your alcohol drinking friends.😛
 
hahaha. While lot of mushrooms in the wild look edible, lot of them are poisonous. Squirrels and other animals will eat them and they can process them fine but lot of them we can't.

Same with those evil blueberry like plants that happen to grow near blueberry bushes. The shape of the berry is a bit more oval and the bush itself is different. Do not eat!
 
There are organizations all over the place with a lot of members who get together to go out & learn which are safe to eat and which aren't. I've been trying to get the opportunity to hook up with one of those groups for a long time. There's only 1 mushroom I can positively (100%) identify as being edible; the rest, I'm waiting until I have an expert verify that I'm identifying them correctly. Being 95% certain isn't good enough; the risks are too big.
 
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