Mycology is a complicated field
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Huh! TIL.
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You don't know whether you pulled a legendary until the trees start talking
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It's never occured to me to wonder if deadly poisonous plants taste good. What does nightshade taste like?
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Geology is similar - one gray rock with brown spots is granite, another is zanzibarite - a name I just made up but that's the idea. Difference: geology generally won't kill you.
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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.
To add to this, people can go for a very long time without food. We have the convention in of eating multiple times a day in modern society, but if a human needs to live off of fat stores -- and, later, muscle -- they can do it for quite a while, unless they're very emaciated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri's_fast
Angus Barbieri (1938 or 1939 – 7 September 1990) was a Scottish man who fasted for 382 days,[1] from 14 June 1965 to 30 June 1966. He subsisted on tea, coffee, sparkling water, vitamins and yeast extract while living at home in Tayport, Scotland, frequently visiting Maryfield Hospital for medical evaluation. Barbieri went from 456 pounds (207 kg) to 180 pounds (82 kg), losing 276 pounds (125 kg) and setting a record for the length of a fast.[2]
Water is different -- a human can't go for very long without water. Maybe a week or so, though people have gone longer (albeit that unpleasant things are going to be happening to them). IIRC, the world record is some guy in Austria that got accidentally forgotten about in a jail cell, though he was able to get some condensed water from the walls of his cell.
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Eighteen days later on 19 April, an officer who had unrelated business in the basement opened his cell after noticing the stench that was emanating from it.[4] Mihavecz needed several weeks to regain his health.[2]
But most people are not really in immediate need of food.
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¿Por qué no los dos?
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Beer is made with yeast, which are fungi.
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Lol. Lmao even. Geochemistry is a big deal. Take a look at the Anaconda Mine.
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And the ground waving
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Have you tried Lion's Mane? Has a meaty texture, you might dig it.
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I have not, but I will look into it at some point, thanks.
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Why not after?
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have you tried Pleurotus? It's texture and taste is quite similar but relatively weaker.
It grows on wood like shiitake.
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some of the tastiest mushrooms can never be bought "from the market".
They are rare and their "gatherers" keep their territories as a secret.
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I followed the work of some A.M. groups for a bit and they have basically proven it can be eaten without dying. The question is, what benefits do the different A.M. compounds have? Unfortunately, everything I heard or read from those groups was anecdotal and not formalized. Admittedly, I am a year or so behind on my fungi studies so there may be new info out there.
Speaking of anecdotal, my experience with psilocybin has been phenomenal. Granted, I don't eat much anymore, but I don't really need to. Studies do support its use for PTSD treatment for vets (me) and for recovering addicts and alcoholics (also me). I only mention this as there are likely thousands of undiscovered compounds in mushrooms that may be phenomenal for mental health The evidence (anecdotal or not) is looking good for A.M.
Alas, there are risks.
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Ruleta rusa
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I took a class in Geology, but I failed the final exam...I took everything I had been taught for granite.
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it's not that difficult if you get a primer from someone seasoned at it.
Random thought - this is a rare case where survivorship bias works in my favor. The best mushroom mentors really are the ones that haven't died.
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I still remember when I met a pilot who majored in geology. I asked him "you know the irony in that right?" He says "yep. But hey at least I can tell you about the mountain we're about to crash into."
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Lions mane and chicken of the woods. Grill em, hit em with some garlic butter and lemon pepper. Pretty dang good imo.
