Do you pick wild mushrooms?

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I am so not a hipster.

[fuckyourcouch]

Jul 5, 2013 21:42:56 GMT -5 Kore said:

Fuck no. But I pretty universally hate mushrooms.

This

[TrickyBob]

Nope. I love mushrooms but not random ones from the wild. I don't like dying.

I DO like stepping on them though. Especially the poison ones that go up in a poof of mushroom smoke. (I step on them so that the dog doesn't get into them since she likes eating grass and rolling in the yard)

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Jul 6, 2013 0:12:15 GMT -5 toledo said:

Only if I were Russian. And had grown up doing it every weekend with my babushka, and thus had some confidence I could do it without dying.

No, not even then.

Lol, I'm pretty sure MIL actually did pick the mushrooms with baba that day. Still, I'm not eating random mushrooms that my MIL picked off of a soccer field. No.thank.you. 

[mudslide]

Eww!

[zoidberg]

My grandpa always gathered morels. He was definitely not a hipster.

I know a lot of non-hipsters who hunt morels. I have done it.

[zitiqueen]

Morels are really good. And pricey from the farm market, like around $25-30 an ounce, last I saw.

Anybody who knows hard-core morel hunters knows that these are the people who should be in charge of national security. They'd watch their own mother die before giving up where they hunt.

[Deleted]

No, but morel mushroom picking us quite a thing around here and it has been forever.

[wambam]

Do I? No. Would I? Yes.

[spedrunner]

my parents do!! My dad knows which ones are the good ones.....they go out every few weeks in the forest...

[spedrunner]

also, my parents are not hipsters, but they are european, they grew up doing this. My dad knows the good ones, he is still alive (lol) i wont eat them though, i dont trust his judgement

[spedrunner]

I do however want to grow my own with something like this...
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[4speedy]

Just morels on our own property. But they only grow for about 2 weeks in May and always from the same spot (under our apple trees--they like the acidity of the soil).  We don't go randomly searching in places we're not familiar with.

My 7 year old made 200 bucks this year selling them to a local restaurant for the morel festival. Many of her friends from school made as much if not more. One kid even made close to $1k. There's big money in wild mushrooms.

[cuddlyevil]

Jul 5, 2013 21:55:06 GMT -5 squirrelymom said:

Fuck no. I'd end up picking the wrong kind and either dying or tripping balls and getting arrested.

I am right here with Squirrely.

[saraandmichael]

hell no!

those effers can kill you.

you might want to caution them to stay far away from a mushroom that looks like its straight out of super mario brothers. they are all over florida and highly poisonous. as in, you can die from handling them.

[alare]

Nope, but wish I had the skills to find them and other edible wild foods. When the revolution comes I will be fucked out of luck.

[saraandmichael]

Jul 6, 2013 9:43:38 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Jul 6, 2013 9:39:16 GMT -5 saraandmichael said:

hell no!

those effers can kill you.

you might want to caution them to stay far away from a mushroom that looks like its straight out of super mario brothers. they are all over florida and highly poisonous. as in, you can die from handling them.

Seriously?? Well now I'm scared!

yes. stepping on them as well.

in short, don't fuck with the shrooms. ever.

[snickers]

Oh hell no!