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I'm reminded of a great tweet from a couple years ago:

"can't stop thinking about people that first ate mushrooms they found and just had to go through trial and error of like, this one tastes like beef, this one killed Brian immediately and this one makes you see God for a week"

also I have a sub-fascination with amateur mushroom foragers asking the internet "is this safe to eat?" I dunno are you willing to literally put your life in the hands of people on a message board

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The advice I remember getting in scouts re: mushrooms was "Unless you're as sure as seeing an apple and go 'that's an apple', don't eat it. You need to be *that sure*"

I am not that sure on any mushroom, nor do I like the taste anyway so I never bothered to learn.

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I like mushrooms just fine but the risk-reward ratio on wild mushrooms is TERRIBLE

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