Comments on: Shroomin’ at home… http://shyzaboy.blogsome.com/2008/10/08/shroomin-at-home/ Brewing and drinking beer, bragging on my kids and opening a window into my (sadly trivially) dark mind Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: jeanne http://shyzaboy.blogsome.com/2008/10/08/shroomin-at-home/#comment-119 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:54:34 +0100 http://shyzaboy.blogsome.com/2008/10/08/shroomin-at-home/#comment-119 You know that's sort of how they decide which mushrooms are edible and which are not, by whether the eater gets sick. Sort of. The spot where the edible ones grow is noted, and gatherers come back each year to the site. Something like that. My aunt and uncle used to pick mushrooms on their property in the Ozarks, and they relied on the silver dime in the basket with the mushrooms method. Supposedly the dime will turn black if the things are dangerous. It does not work, and wouldn't now even if it did at one time because of the reduced level of silver in our coins. Not that it really worked. There are people who can identify them, but what I've noticed in the books is that for every edible one there is at least one that resembles it very much and is very much not edible. I wonder if there's a lab where you can send samples. You know that’s sort of how they decide which mushrooms are edible and which are not, by whether the eater gets sick. Sort of. The spot where the edible ones grow is noted, and gatherers come back each year to the site. Something like that. My aunt and uncle used to pick mushrooms on their property in the Ozarks, and they relied on the silver dime in the basket with the mushrooms method. Supposedly the dime will turn black if the things are dangerous. It does not work, and wouldn’t now even if it did at one time because of the reduced level of silver in our coins. Not that it really worked.

There are people who can identify them, but what I’ve noticed in the books is that for every edible one there is at least one that resembles it very much and is very much not edible.
I wonder if there’s a lab where you can send samples.

]]> by: Doug http://shyzaboy.blogsome.com/2008/10/08/shroomin-at-home/#comment-114 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:40:04 +0100 http://shyzaboy.blogsome.com/2008/10/08/shroomin-at-home/#comment-114 Hmm. How about the neighbors that complained about the kid's "castle" in the backyard? Or maybe the neighbor that freaked out when Dyson and I were walking across his unmowed "field"... Hmm. How about the neighbors that complained about the kid’s “castle” in the backyard? Or maybe the neighbor that freaked out when Dyson and I were walking across his unmowed “field”…

]]> by: elayne http://shyzaboy.blogsome.com/2008/10/08/shroomin-at-home/#comment-113 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:56:42 +0100 http://shyzaboy.blogsome.com/2008/10/08/shroomin-at-home/#comment-113 Have any neighbors you don't particularly like? You could fix them a nice mushroom casserole and wait a day or two to see what happens... (I wouldn't eat mushrooms if you paid me, so I'm no help here.) Have any neighbors you don’t particularly like? You could fix them a nice mushroom casserole and wait a day or two to see what happens…

(I wouldn’t eat mushrooms if you paid me, so I’m no help here.)

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