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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

My friend forages for porcini mushrooms out near Tahoe. I thankfully don't like mushrooms, so he's not offended when I decline, but idgaf how good he is at finding them, it only takes 1 fuckup and you're dead. He says there's no mushrooms that look like it and as long as you only look for that one, you'll be fine. Frankly imo mushrooms are nasty as hell even when you get the kind you know won't kill you at the store. I have no desire to risk my life to eat wild fungus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

FYI you can actually safely lick all mushrooms that we know off. The bad ones will taste bitter if there's every a confusion between the species. Though if you're really unsure don't risk it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think there are surprisingly few poisonous ones out there, and fewer that could actually kill somebody.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

at least no one ever returning from a forest said a mushroom had killed him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I know, that's like the first thing they teach you at returning school

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