Should I have not eaten these mushrooms????

But they look so good!!!LOL
These babies were huge,bigger than my hand.

Here let me pick you some!!!

Gulp! What are they? Mushrooms can be very dangerous if you get the wrong kind. A few years ago some people picked some wild ones and put them in stir fry, they all went to the hospital in critical condition and 5 out of 6 of them eventually had liver transplants. I do eat morels and shaggy manes but that is all of the wild ones.

I think Tropicman is fooling with us ;)

A lot of the edible mushrooms have a poinsonous look alike. I'd only collect them if I had an experienced guide teach me the differences.

That's probably the SCARIEST thread topic I've ever seen! LOL
Pati

in the words of one of my mentors:
"there are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are NO old bold mushroom hunters."


dp

sorry to be paranoid, but I only eat the ones from the grocery store, lol! me a fraidy cat! :)

I knew you were fooling with us......you wouldn't be with us here at Dave's if you had eaten bad mushrooms. :-)

Remember (those of you who are "older" as I am) "meatless Fridays" ? When I was in college every Catholic girl in our dorm got food poisoning from "old" rather than bad mushrooms that topped Friday's pizza offering in the dorm cafeteria. I can still remember all the sick trays that lined the halls and a smell like death.

Every spring here in Northern California there is at least one story that hits the papers regarding the consumption of gathered mushrooms. It is usually an unhappy ending for the victims.

Im with Karrie, I dont know any experienced shroom hunters and I cant tell the difference so I stick with whats in the grocery store.

Haven't a clue what they are,but there coming up in the flower bed,right next to my frosty pink brug,which all of a sudden is putting on flower buds,wonder if there is any connection!!!
Might eat a few on a slice of pizza,but I'm a meat and potato man mainly,beside those look pretty scary too me too!!!

Morels are wonderful and I'll eat 'shrooms I buy at the store, but that's about it. No wild mushroom hunting for me...

be careful! most mushrooms that just "grow" are wild and very very poisonous (deadly(!

you're pulling our legs!

If you smiled it was worth every bit,just wished I could have seen your grin,happy faces,keep us young and alive!

too bad you're not short enough to just be able to "sit" on those toad stools, lol! :-) most definitely grinning and glad you are alive, lol!

Ah! But I am a leperchaun!

oooooohhhhhh! so you actually live "under them"? lol! We need for gardenwife to do a pic of that! :)

Well I just keep shrinking,funny think is it goes down from height to getting bigger width!!!

You know what "Alice" says! lol!

No please tell me.
I'm too old to know that!

lol! perhaps you need to ask my DH! He knows the song by heart! hee hee

Smiles pull my wrinkles upwards so I look better. They also smudge my glasses so I have to clean them. (cheeks smunching up under the glasses) But best of all smiles make me happy. Thanks for the giggle! Lani

one pill makes you smaller one pill makes you tall just go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall. or close to that.

forty years ago kids use to come to our pasture to pick the little things that started with a p my little brother in law about 14 at the time would wait for them to get towards the center of the field and circle the field with the liquid manure spreader once or twice was enough to scatter kids when they heard that tractor start up after that. We ended up posting the property. Ernie

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LOL Imagine thier mother's saying "Good Grief what were you doing?!" and the explenations they came up with.

lol! payote?

I don't remember the name of them but kids used them to get high. Some kids came to our place when we lived in western Oregon and asked to pick "edible mushrooms". We told them no, that the sheep manure turned them poisionous. (It doesn't but these city kids didn't know that). They didn't come back.

It's amazing what kids will do to "get high" thinking they are invincible and incapable of death. I have planted some of that "moonflower" which is beautiful, but apparently kids have used that to get high, some have died from it. My kids know the cautions and also know to not even tell their friends about my having it (most kids wouldn't even know what it is up here). If one kid from LC Highschool found out I had it growing, that was dumb enough, it would be all over. I have it growing in a location I can keep an eye on (up by my front porch).