Unless you know your mushrooms and know them WELL do not eat ANY of them.
Don't even touch them and I avoid stepping on them.
My family were avid mushroom hunters as were our neighbors. One
Thanksgiving the neighbor family picked a ton of mushrooms as both our
families always did. Two days later they were ALL found dead at the dining
room table from eating poisonous mushrooms in gravy & stuffing. I'm from
Baltimore and this is a real story, not some snopes.com tale.
Before you touch, pick or even consider eating any wild mushroom, you should
take a course in identification.
Suz
A Note About Mushrooms.....
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Started on 2004-09-27
A Note About Mushrooms.....
From: Suzanne Settle (quillow@inkandfeather.com) |
Date: 2004-09-27 18:09:11 UTC-07:00
RE: [LbNA] A Note About Mushrooms.....
From: Kim Calcagno (hannahkat@cox.net) |
Date: 2004-09-28 07:21:30 UTC-04:00
I agree wholeheartedly about eating wild mushrooms...after an entire
graduate school course in Mycology there are really only about three species
I would trust myself to identify properly and eat from the wild. The one
thing, though, that I disagree with is regarding TOUCHING mushrooms.
Touching, picking etc of mushrooms will never hurt you or your children. The
toxins in poisonous mushrooms do not work that way. You actually have to
ingest the mushroom. Even touching one and licking your fingers will NOT
harm you. My professor in grad school emphasized this vividly by putting an
Amanita virosa (Destroying Angel) in his mouth, chewing it up and spitting
it out. He really wanted people to understand that mushrooms would not hurt
you in that way...so that people would not be frightened by mushrooms in
that way. As a naturalist, I find people are often very frightened about
touching mushrooms, but apart from actually eating them, there is little to
worry about.
As an aside, regarding edible mushrooms, wild or not, whenever you try a new
species, you should only try a small amount, since even the most delectable
mushrooms can cause diarrhea and vomiting in some people. You can be
sensitive to one species and fine with others.
Be careful out there!
-Kim (Rustypuff)
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From: Suzanne Settle [mailto:quillow@inkandfeather.com]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:09 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] A Note About Mushrooms.....
Unless you know your mushrooms and know them WELL do not eat ANY of them.
Don't even touch them and I avoid stepping on them.
My family were avid mushroom hunters as were our neighbors. One
Thanksgiving the neighbor family picked a ton of mushrooms as both our
families always did. Two days later they were ALL found dead at the dining
room table from eating poisonous mushrooms in gravy & stuffing. I'm from
Baltimore and this is a real story, not some snopes.com tale.
Before you touch, pick or even consider eating any wild mushroom, you should
take a course in identification.
Suz
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graduate school course in Mycology there are really only about three species
I would trust myself to identify properly and eat from the wild. The one
thing, though, that I disagree with is regarding TOUCHING mushrooms.
Touching, picking etc of mushrooms will never hurt you or your children. The
toxins in poisonous mushrooms do not work that way. You actually have to
ingest the mushroom. Even touching one and licking your fingers will NOT
harm you. My professor in grad school emphasized this vividly by putting an
Amanita virosa (Destroying Angel) in his mouth, chewing it up and spitting
it out. He really wanted people to understand that mushrooms would not hurt
you in that way...so that people would not be frightened by mushrooms in
that way. As a naturalist, I find people are often very frightened about
touching mushrooms, but apart from actually eating them, there is little to
worry about.
As an aside, regarding edible mushrooms, wild or not, whenever you try a new
species, you should only try a small amount, since even the most delectable
mushrooms can cause diarrhea and vomiting in some people. You can be
sensitive to one species and fine with others.
Be careful out there!
-Kim (Rustypuff)
-----Original Message-----
From: Suzanne Settle [mailto:quillow@inkandfeather.com]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 9:09 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LbNA] A Note About Mushrooms.....
Unless you know your mushrooms and know them WELL do not eat ANY of them.
Don't even touch them and I avoid stepping on them.
My family were avid mushroom hunters as were our neighbors. One
Thanksgiving the neighbor family picked a ton of mushrooms as both our
families always did. Two days later they were ALL found dead at the dining
room table from eating poisonous mushrooms in gravy & stuffing. I'm from
Baltimore and this is a real story, not some snopes.com tale.
Before you touch, pick or even consider eating any wild mushroom, you should
take a course in identification.
Suz
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Re: [LbNA] A Note About Mushrooms.....
From: (Gurudybaker@aol.com) |
Date: 2004-09-28 10:20:00 UTC-04:00
The lesson for the day. DO NOT eat wild mushroom. Feast your eyes, take
photos, and leave them for the next person to enjoy.
STAR:W+S=DRR
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photos, and leave them for the next person to enjoy.
STAR:W+S=DRR
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