Posted on 03/16/2025 1:37:38 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Every once in a while, through the winding supply chain systems that end in the items we buy for our homes and closets, a strangely specific motif emerges. There was a stretch a few years ago where I recall nearly every shelf of Home Goods and rack at Urban Outfitters had been slapped with a slew of owls: peering over sides of mugs, hooting out from T-shirts, welcoming you on cutesy doormats. Well, it seems the latest fad in this vein is: the mushroom. Specifically, a spotted, usually red and white variety.
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I remember when it was Holstein cows.
The Brits seem to have used mushrooms in decor for a long time.
Mushrooms are good in omelettes with swiss cheese.
That goes well with the black/white color palette of the last several years, that seems to be fading finally, perhaps.
This reminds me, I need to do something with a big Costco bucket of mushrooms.
They were back in the late 60s and early 70s, too. I do not get it.
I have a buddy who hunts, he gave me one of the backstraps from a deer he shot.
I sliced them up into medallions, sautéed them in butter, garlic, and Grand Marnier, along with some dried Morel mushrooms that were dried, and I threw the liquid I used to rehydrate them into the reduction sauce...:)
A magnificent dish...just wonderful.
About 10-15 years ago you had to hang a large metal star on the outside of your house.
Those large bare-stick arrangements in big vases are/were a thing pretty recently. Also flat wooden bowls with random things in them, often fabric balls - sitting on your table or sideboard.
I remember a craft trend in the 1980s. Geese cut out of pine painted blue.
They all look like poison mushrooms.
And cows.
The thing I couldn’t get was the decorative bowl of large shiny balls about 10 years. I even saw one on the Mark Steyn show. What’s the point?
You did it right! The hydrating liquid has all the flavor, and even some sand to boot.
They are. Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria). Deadly.
They don't mention that aspect in the article, which is stupid. Kids will see the items with pretty red-with-white-dots, and godforbid see a real Amanita in nature and eat it and die.
Highly irresponsible journalism.
I was lucky-I didn’t even think of the sand or grit, but didn’t run into any-they must have cleaned those mushrooms well before they dried them!
Mushrooms must be the Demondogs new drug of choice
If you wait long enough, popular things from the past return. Mushrooms were part of home decor in the 1970’s.
So I have nothing against mushrooms. Stupid journalists, though, yes.
Yum.
Do you deliver?
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