Posted on 05/18/2005 6:14:52 PM PDT by Drammach
The mushroom season down here in Indiana was not good this year. An outdoors writer here said the worst he had seen. I just wonder how it was up there in Michigan?
I just hope it doesn't start an evolution/creationist flame-war.. over mushrooms, of all things..
I found a couple in the yard but I haven't bothered to get out into the woods. It's been cold and mostly dry. I hear they were finding them up north.
More importantly, according to a recent 20/20, the KC MO SD fails kitchen health inspections at least 70% of the time! For what it's worth, KCMO has one of the most corrupt city governments around... And they've sent one of the ring-leaders, Emmanual Cleaver, to congress. At least he's not around here now. Mark
Wisconsin is not far away and we have them.
With you 100%.. Especially about Cleaver..
Better than chanterelles? One of my favortite things, saute d'champignon sauvage. I'm pretty much happy to eat any kind of mushroom. Sauteed with some schallots, butter, S&P, splash of wine wine or vermouth,.....yum.
"He was a brave man who first et an oyster". Same goes for all those mushrooms. How did they know without trying them and risk dying? Trial and possibly very, very bad error.
You also have Moose... & Cheese...
( I feel a bar-b-que coming on... )
"approved mushroom identification expert".
The "un-approved" ones are the ones that are dead, or as they say in Texas, D-E-D.
I don't eat things that grown on dead/decaying/rotting stuff. Not knowingly, anyway. I can usually pick out a fungus just by the tecture of it. Iccckkkkyyy.
Did I mention it grows on rotting stuff??
Tribe go to seashore..
Find things maybe good eating, maybe bad...
Big ones make little ones eat them..
If little ones live, then good eat..
If little ones die, then bad eat..
Sometimes forget which thing little one ate..
Make little one do over..
Many of the people killed by mushrooms these days are recent Asian immigrants. They pick mushrooms that look like edible Asian species, but the American mushrooms are poisonous.
"Hey Bob.. look! Over in that rotting, festering pile of fecal matter. Yeah, the really aromatic one. It's some sort of gray blob. Hmmm... I know... let's eat it!"
What's the job pay? I am a mushroom inspector approved by my wife and I can even get a few friends and neighbors to lie about it.
I'm in Minnesota and they're growing in the wood chip mulch in our yard.
A good friend of mine gathered up handfuls of them last weekend.
(Yes, she's a good friend because I let her walk in my rain sogged garden where daffodils have YET to peek out, and I let her take the morels home.)
It's been in the high 50's and raining daily for weeks on end. Perfect for morels. Bad for me and my gardens. ):
Nasty beareaucrats.
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Thanks for the opportunity to stretch my mental muscles, its been nearly 20 years since I've looked at this stuff. ;-)
A fungus among us ping.
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