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When I attended college, (Auburn University aka The Cow College), a couple of our best football players were caught walking around pastures picking mushrooms. I always giggled picturing them spending hours in a field of cowpies searching for the rarely present shroom.

I always giggled picturing them spending hours in a field of cowpies searching for the rarely present shroom

They are funny. Local kids have no interest in them, but kids from the university down the hill crawl around the pastures at night looking for them. You can sure smell them when they stop at the store on their way home!
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Wow, I just mowed over a couple of mushrooms growing in horse turds yesterday. Not having much experience in these things, at the time I wondered if I had just destroyed some magic shrooms. Do they grow in horse turds? I can't imagine eating one of those things.

"When I attended college, (Auburn University aka The Cow College), a couple of our best football players were caught walking around pastures picking mushrooms. I always giggled picturing them spending hours in a field of cowpies searching for the rarely present shroom."

When I was in college we went to a Coleman dairy farm a couple of times to pick shrooms and they were everywhere you looked. The field would be full of people just before sunrise out there with big plastic bags and flashlights. You could be in and out with a bread bag full of nice shrooms in just a few minutes. You could get out quicker if you didn't leave a few of the bigger ones that were opening and dropping their spores, but proper shroom picking etiquette required that you left a few in every spot where you found them to make sure enough spores would drop to keep the field going. The folklore at least was that the bigger ones weren't any more powerful than the smaller ones anyway so you'd have to consume a bigger portion to get the desired effect. They were pretty nasty tasting. We'd wash them and then boil 'em, mash 'em, strain out the pulp and mix a lot of grape Koolaid mix and sugar with the remaining purple/black "tea." You didn't want to do that more than a couple of times. That was twenty years ago and I gag thinking about it.