• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Here’s a general rule for foraging mushrooms; don’t use “general rules”.

    Also; “don’t eat it if it bruises blue”, you’ll miss out on all the fun ones with this advice.

    • Cordyceps
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, atleast here in northern part of europe we have multiple shrooms that bruise blue and are still edible. I recomend getting a mushroom foraging guide book of your area, and first getting familiar with all the ones that can seriously hurt you.

      • allcretansareliars@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Books pah! We didn’t take books the last time I went mushroom foraging! Books are for cowards! We took a senior fellow from the University of London who specialised in mycology, instead.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      the blue ones can be the funnest ones

      though perhaps not when you’re wildly unprepared for the things they will show you (and also, though I have yet to try them myself, probably not the best for dinner since everyone says they taste like shit)