[gundog]

...poisonous mushrooms often are indistinguishable from edible varieties, especially to an untrained eye.

This happens with an inordinate number of the victims being Asian. I've heard that there are no poisonous mushrooms in Asia posited as a reason, but don't know for sure. Ate some once ...God-awful nausea and puking was as bad as it got for me.

[politicalwit]

Asian Indians...Indo-american community??? Who the hell are these people and why should I give a rat’ ass about their ethnicity.

[ken21]

boy, i don’t think i would trust myself to pick the right ones!

you have to be an expert in that area.

[fortunate sun]

In the central Jersey forests and fields of my youth (many, many, many years ago), there was an abundance of wild or native or no longer tended fruits and vegetables. Strawberries, blueberries, persimmons, plums, peaches, apples, grapes and more. Even the most daring of us would never, EVER even nibble a mushroom.

[Roccus]

One of my fondest memories of my Grampa is mushroonm hunting with him in the old World’s Fairgrounds in NYC.

[elkfersupper]

We have the privelege around here of enduring transplanted actual and would-be Gaia-worshipers who refuse to believe that this environment manufactures poisonous fungus, plants, animals and predators.

The sooner they all get immobilized by mushrooms, paralyzed by rattlesnakes, etc. and eaten by cougar, wolf or bear, the better I would like it.

The trouble is, we use up a bunch of tax dollars attempting to rescue these idiots from their own poisoned brains.

[Revolting cat!]

Why d’you think they’re called ‘wild’?

[TigersEye]

Maybe it depends upon the type of mycotoxins involved but milk thistle has reversed the liver damage done by the most poisonous of all mushrooms the Death Cap (Amanita phalloides.) I hope these docs are aware of it.

[Daffynition]

We took a mushroom foraging course given by some experts ... upshot of the learning we took away was, we would never, ever eat mushrooms we picked ourselves in the wild. Too risky!