Mycology is a complicated field
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So not mushroom for error. 🫤
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Jokes on you, they'll all kill me.
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The better advice is if you don't know what something is, don't put it in your mouth at all. If someone was to try this when they are desperate for food, usually if alone and lost, they could make a bad situation even worse.
Aminita muscaria has been used medicinally for years and has some really good potential. If you really want to trip though, just stick with psilocybin. Ibotenic acid is a neurotoxin and there is not a reliable way to test dosages at home. The last dosage advice I read was just eat a half mouthfull and you should be good if your stomach doesn't cramp up to all hell. (The companies that have been pumping out muscimol gummies recently are shady as fuck if you were wondering.)
The aminita family is still super interesting though and deserves a ton more research.
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This is why you get mushrooms from the market. And why I avoid "functional mushrooms" because poisoning is a function.
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Star Trek, real life OR Lemmy Stamets.
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The left ginger woman is actually part of the club. You can see the robes in the rubbish bin behind her and she has a ring on in the top picture.
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Thank god I absolutely hate the taste and texture of mushrooms.
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To all mushrooms? Are you allergic to beer? I’m sorry, I instantly have a thousand questions
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I used to hate the texture, but if cooked right they will be tender (water such as from canned mushrooms may be an issue). Gumminess can also be masked by balancing it with other food (particularly meat, vegetables like potato/squash/broccoli) to chew against it.
Probably doesn't help if you don't like the taste, though that could just come down to mushroom variety if not also what dish it's in (spices etc).
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My family loves mushrooms so there are many types they eat. And I don't like any of them.
I once went for pizza with my gf and had to help her eat hers as well (she can never eat a whole pizza herself). She sadly ordered one with mushrooms and even after taking them off I could not eat more than one piece without getting a strong feeling that I am going to throw up.
Admittedly the mushrooms had quite a strong taste (not the typical ones put on pizza, those barely have any taste hut I still remove them). They left so much of the taste behind it almost made me puke. I just cannot stomach the taste. I have however noticed the mushroom soup my grandma makes (not the cream type) does not have such a strong mushroom taste so I can eat it with just picking out the shrooms.
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I do too... except for shiitake mushrooms, which I absolutely love.
Other than that, I have yet to have a mushroom I really like. Some of them (like the white kind they put on pizza) I would rate as tolerable.
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I mean thw stuff they put on pizza barely has any taste at all. At least here. It's the texture that is disgusting.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of the texture either. But I can tolerate it.
Shiitake mushrooms though... nothing similar in taste or texture. They do have to be prepared by someone who knows how to prepare them right because it does take a little experience, and they're also expensive unless you want to get them dried and reconstitute them, but those aren't nearly as good.
That said, if I am in a restaurant and I see them on offer, I will order them.
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Don't know about portabellos. Not sure the same mushrooms even grow here as where you are. We mostly eat ones we pick outselves. I never liked going mushroom picking.
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Good eye!
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Nah I just remember seeing this pointed out by someone before.
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I do some light general foraging in the forest I live in and mushrooms are a seasonal treat. And I often have Shaggy Mane mushrooms growing in my yard, (don't worry, I do not use fertilizer or herbicides ever). And fresh chanterelle mushrooms are an edible gift from the gods.
Like most things in life, mushroom hunting isn't super dangerous, (if you mess up the odds are it won't kill you outright but they will make you wish it had), but it does take some learning and practice.
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::: spoiler Hey, Paul, should I eat this mushroom I found?
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Still. I enjoyed the detail I never would have discovered!
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Aminita Muscaria can be eaten. There was either a vice article, or video about it. I recall thin slices and frying them was part of the technique.
I imagine it's a stomach cramps and vomiting kind of high like poorly prepared peyote/mescaline.
Erowid should have articles/instructions for preparing Aminita Muscaria, just read some trip reports there. They often include basic steps.
