• @The_Tired_Horizon
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    287 months ago

    I remember being on a wilderness weekend many years ago and being told that when you cut the stem on some poisonous shrooms they discolour a sort of blue tint. I’m lucky, I hate the taste and texture of mushrooms.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      217 months ago

      I remember years ago reading you can tell if a mushroom is “magic” by blotting it on paper towel and seeing if it stains blue or purple. Unfortunately, that is also how many things say you can tell it’s toxic. Maybe you’ll trip balls. Maybe you’ll die. 🤷🏻‍♂️

      • VindictiveJudge
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        117 months ago

        I wouldn’t be surprised if the poison and the psychoactive part are the same thing in different doses, or just function similarly.

        • @alvendam
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          17 months ago

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        • @Brokenbutstrong
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          -77 months ago

          From what I heard in the past magic mushrooms are just mild food poisoning

          • @shneancy
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            67 months ago

            you have heard wrong.

            Mild food poisoning makes your tummy hurt and you feel a bit nauseous.

            Magic mushrooms, depending on the dose, will either make you wonder the meaning of life or will bring god directly to you to ask, all the whilst fractals and wild shapes pulsate within the details of patterns.

        • WIZARD POPE💫
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          27 months ago

          They don’t scare me I just cannot stand the taste and texture. It actually makes me want to vomit.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 months ago

            Which makes you scared of them, perhaps.

            Also, have you seen how mycelium works and so on, the biology is amazing, but it’s also scary.

            • WIZARD POPE💫
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              27 months ago

              I mean it’s not all the mushrooms that give me that reaction. I am 100% not scared of them. If I had nothing else to eat and was starving I would suffer through it. But I don’t.

              I have not seen how it works. Got any good links?

            • @The_Tired_Horizon
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              17 months ago

              I love all that side of it myself. Used to photo the wild fungus down here.

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      127 months ago

      Funny you say this, there is actually a mushroom that does this color change but is edible. Allegedly doesn’t taste very good, though.

      Best not to eat any wild mushrooms at all unless a verified mycologist can look at them first.

      • @[email protected]
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        27 months ago

        Scarletina bolete apparently tastes relatively decent. I haven’t tried it myself though.

    • Flying Squid
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      47 months ago

      I hate every mushroom I have ever tried- except shiitake mushrooms, which don’t taste like mushrooms and are amazing.