Posted on 07/25/2023 5:51:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
“Eat here and get The Trots!”
Rules of the Thumb (CWIDT, yo-yo?)
If the head is connected to the stem...it is safe.
If the head is separate from the stem, it is poisonous.
That morel-ess is what happened.
“’There are scientific gaps in knowledge regarding morel mushrooms in the wider public health, medical toxicology, and mycology realms that need further research in order to better understand how morel mushrooms affect human health,’ the health department report said.”
Do these people not have google? LOL! This literally took me SECONDS to find. The science is settled! *SMIRK*
https://www.thegreatmorel.com/2021/05/01/the-science-of-morel-mushrooms/
They’ve been a food source since for-ever. Now that 2 people died from eating bad ones, we should all be off them?
How about that ham sandwich that Mama Cass Elliot choked on? Shall we ban ham sandwiches, too? If so, Laz will be deeply saddened, LOL!
🤦♀️🤦♂️👍😁..........................
[[Don’t eat the fungus from the cowpies..............]]
Party pooper! “Get yer fresh cow poop mushrooms- get em while they last”
Sounds like a Morel dilemma....................
[[Shut down Montana! lock everyone down.]]
LOL! that got me laughing 😃
[[Morel hunting is a popular past time here in Michigan.]]
Yeah, but ya gotta use a big gun, an AR 15, which can blow the head off a cow with one shot according to the left.
But let's blame the mushrooms anyway. Too hard to look for what the cause actually was.
I live down the street from Dave’s. Eaten there quite a bit. My experience was always fine. Wont be going back though!
I grew up in northern MI and every spring, my grandfather would keep us supplied with fresh morels.....
Boyne City has a mushroom festival every year on the weekend following mother's day.
I think that's correct, but I won't stake my life on it.
Before picking morel mushrooms, folks should be aware of what are commonly referred to as true and false morels. Consuming false morels can be dangerous. For example, Gyromitra esculenta, known as the beefsteak morel, has been responsible for many deaths in Europe and several poisonings in the U.S., according to nonprofit organization Midwest American Mycological Information.
Chris Wright, executive director of the organization, said there are a couple of simple ways to tell the difference between true and false morels. True morels are hollow with no materials inside. However, false morels will have a substance that looks similar to cotton, he said. Other than on half-free varieties — on which the cap attaches about halfway down the stem — an edible morel’s stem is attached to the bottom of the cap. With false morels, Wright noted that the stem joins at the top of the cap, with the top folding over like a skirt on top of the stem.
From what I saw in the posted story (written by “Coral Beach”, right), nobody even knows what the illness was, let alone the cause. Some investigation. Did they learn how from the Secret Service?
Dave will probably go out of business.
We had a local Japanese restaurant get punked and they had to close because of it.
This advice is an infuriating straw man:
“Advice
Anyone eating, selling, or serving morel mushrooms should use caution when doing so. There are varieties of poisonous wild mushrooms that look very similar to morel mushrooms.
Public health officials recommend those preparing morels should confirm the identity of each mushroom, and consult with a knowledgeable expert, as poisonous species have been known to grow near edible species in the wild.”
The reason it’s infuriating is because earlier in the article the subject mushrooms were confirmed to be a type of true morels, making all this advice completely irrelevant.
If someone dies in a plane crash, don’t use the story to give advice about how to safely ride motorcycles.
I grew up eating Morels every spring, as did a lot of people in these parts. Mom always scrambled them with eggs.
Never heard of anyone getting sick from them, even after eating a few raw while out in the woods looking for them.
I’m thinking this was a case of unwashed hands on the person who picked the mushrooms and sold them to the restaurant, or maybe some contamination of the container in which they were transported or stored, and not the mushrooms themselves.
This article doesn’t tell you jack. Only something made people sick and they think (haha) it could have been morels. Maybe it was the chairs they sat on made them sick? Conjecture and BS.
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