[djf]

Sometimes it gets so serious around here, a person might commit hari-kari.

But nothing would convince me to eat a mushroom that didn't come off a supermarket shelf. That's pretty risky.

[JesseJane]

I tend to stick to the canned ones myself.. LOLOL!! You never know what those mushrooms are up to after the sun goes down, ya know?? LOLOL!!

Yes, we HAVE to keep our sense of humor, without it, we'd be Democrats.. /meow!

[WindOracle]

Well, a truffle is pretty distinguishable from your normal mushroom as it grows underground. Pigs are not ONLY fed these in China, but are used to hunt truffles... they can smell them underground where they grow on the roots of Truffle Oaks.

This story kinda reminds me of the history of Lobsters, which native Americans disdained and used for fertilizer, and which later, upper class European immigrants turned their noses up at them calling them a "trash fish" and only the lowest classes would eat it. Boy, someone screwed up by slipping some rich guy a lobster once I guess, and now they cost ya thru the nose.