[Red Badger]

Don’t eat the fungus from the cowpies..............

[Leep]

Shut down Montana! lock everyone down.

[jerod]

Wash your food and cook it properly and you’ll have no problems... Don’t and you will.

[CFW]

I love Morel mushrooms! We have them grow on our property in a wooded area near the creek in early spring each year. But, you have to check the area daily because they only appear for a short time.

I never eat them raw and usually cook them with steak or eggs. I’ve never heard of someone getting sick from the cooked mushrooms grown in local wooded areas, I wonder if in this instance it could be from some bacteria located in the soil of the area the mushrooms were grown.

[Yo-Yo]

Morel hunting is a popular past time here in Michigan.

You need to be very careful that what you're picking is a genuine Morel.

[noiseman]

As a general rule, I would avoid sushi restaurants with names like “Dave’s Sushi.” Also would steer clear of gas station sushi.

[Carriage Hill]

"Most became ill within three hours of their meal at Dave’s Sushi..."

The sushi shop at the gas station?

I think I found the problem.

[rlmorel]

I hear this ALL THE TIME!

Slander!

[C210N]

I've only cooked morels that I've found in the wild. Generally sauteed in butter. Morels are very easy to identify, but first time doing so should be with someone that's in the know. That said, cooking them kills off bad bacteria - this is coming from lawns and forests, where animals go....

And, then there are false morels, easily distinguished, but be aware of them. False morels are more like an unfocused version of a real morel:

[lefty-lie-spy]

Never order sushi from a place called “Dave’s Sushi”. Fortunately I don’t have a sushi problems around Tokyo because none are named “Dave’s”.

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[Bob434]

That morel-ess is what happened.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“’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!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Health officials performed DNA sequencing on the morel mushroom samples collected from the restaurant, and identified the species as Morchella sextelata, a type of “true morel.” Samples of morel mushrooms collected after the illnesses occurred were also screened for pesticides, heavy metals, bacterial toxins, and pathogens. No significant findings were identified, according to the health department’s report.

But let's blame the mushrooms anyway. Too hard to look for what the cause actually was.

[Levy78]

I live down the street from Dave’s. Eaten there quite a bit. My experience was always fine. Wont be going back though!

[Tommy Revolts]

Morels? I've been eating morel mushrooms my entire life. Never once got sick. But then of course they were wild morel mushrooms.

[coloradan]

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.

[WKUHilltopper]

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.

[Boogieman]

Just because you can eat fresh fish raw doesn’t mean you can eat everything raw, Dave.

[Irenic]

I thought Morels mushrooms were supposed to be thoroughly cooked and NOT eaten raw?