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WITCHCRAFT posted:If you forage all the maple seeds from your neighbor's sidewalk, then the birds and squirrels will have less food Our neighbors called the police on my parents once because we were foraging for mushrooms! My parents knew exactly what to find and I grew up eating poo poo they'd foraged, so we kind of just laughed when my neighbor came out and started screaming at us that we would all be poisoned. We went inside, Mom cooked the mushrooms, and that's when the popsicle lights hit. I was, as every good hippie child is taught, hiding from the cops when they came, so I have no idea what happened next, but the cops went away and no one ever talked about the incident again. My parents continued being good friend with the neighbors. BTW the mushrooms were loving gross and I should have come out yelling ACK I HAVE BEEN POISONED and flopping around so my parents would go to jail for serving me these nasty shits.
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At least two of the mushroom foraging stories I know end with entire families in hospital getting their stomachs pumped for precaution.
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gschmidl posted:At least two of the mushroom foraging stories I know end with entire families in hospital getting their stomachs pumped for precaution. The rule I've heard for wild foraging in general, is this. Suppose you're sitting in your kitchen eating an apple, when some madman comes in and knocks it out of your hands, yelling "Don't eat that! It's poisonous!" and runs away. But you pick the apple up and keep eating, because what does he know? It's just an apple and perfectly safe. That is the level of confidence you need before you start eating wild food. darthbob88 has a new favorite as of 15:33 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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America really needs a stronger foraging culture. If people viewed the wilderness or just wide plant variety in general as a resource instead of a burden, they'd be less likely to bulldoze everything for more grass.WITCHCRAFT posted:If you forage all the maple seeds from your neighbor's sidewalk, then the birds and squirrels will have less food Largely there's probably enough food, although the sharp decrease in activity lately means that they also have to compete with creatures that can't usually cross roads easily and less human garbage to eat.
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darthbob88 posted:The rule I've heard for wild foraging in general, is this. Suppose you're sitting in your kitchen eating an apple, when some madman comes in and knocks it out of your hands, yelling "Don't eat that! It's poisonous!" and runs away. But you pick the apple up and keep eating, because what does he know? It's just an apple and perfectly safe. That is the level of confidence you need before you start eating wild food. I would actually listen to that guy because he is clearly a wizard but 1. Research extensively and bring guides/pictures with you 2. When possible, test before eating by rubbing plant juices on your upper lip or in the crook of your elbow 3. Seek out local experts; they're often only too happy to advise you or even take you out themselves 3a. They might be crazy bunker people, so don't get into a political argument in the woods, because hippies and right-wing gun nuts tend to enjoy the same outdoorsy activities and hold weirdly similar values sometimes 4. Know the seasons and local fauna very well. poo poo, get an almanac. You can usually find them at occult bookstores and libraries. 5. Accept that you might gently caress up if you're not careful. Have the number for poison control close at hand and never eat something new without telling someone. 6. If someone tells you you're doing something unsafe, pause and listen to their justification unless you know for a fact that they're talking out of your rear end. 7. I AM NOT AN EXPERT DO NOT TAKE MY WORD AS GOD GO RESEARCH YOUR FACE OFF I'm pretty high so I hope these tips are helpful.
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My understanding has always been that if you're going to forage for mushrooms, you should probably find someone to teach you personally on the mushrooms in your area. Not a book, not the internet, but someone local who knows exactly what they're doing. There's a lot of potential to go wrong, and the differences can be very subtle. The only wild mushroom I'd trust myself to pick is morels, because nothing really looks like them. Even false morels are pretty easy to tell apart.
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I have a few pounds of foraged Chanterelles in my freezer, 'cause them shits are like $30 a lb, and 90% water, they too are pretty easy to identify safely in local forests. They are fantastic on steaks and in risotto.
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RoboRodent posted:My understanding has always been that if you're going to forage for mushrooms, you should probably find someone to teach you personally on the mushrooms in your area. Not a book, not the internet, but someone local who knows exactly what they're doing. There's a lot of potential to go wrong, and the differences can be very subtle. This is a problem with foraging in Florida. The climate is very unusual (hot and humid for most of the year, with a brief time of bitter cold that's just slightly too warm for snow to form) so most plants that also exist up north look different. A guidebook written by someone in a more typical part of America can very well be useless.
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I know precisely one person I'd go mushroom foraging with, and he's a mycologist.
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angerbeet posted:I know precisely one person I'd go mushroom foraging with, and he's a mycologist. Same for me and that one person.... Jesus
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Mushrooms in my area still have enough caesium-137 in them that they would blow the legal limits several times over if you tried to sell them. Those limits don't apply to eating them yourself, of course.
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More caesium for me. Suckers.
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Poopelyse posted:Same for me and that one person.... Jesus Jesus is a mycologist?
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https://twitter.com/tastemade/status/1243085279205847040 at bake 20 minutes
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/tastemade/status/1243085279205847040 gently caress everything about this.
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taboo medical excision porn rice crispy treats wait no this isn't my google search bar delet this
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Is Kays Cooking cheating? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-rj3gVOAnM
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I want to drink the green vanilla mint milk Why did America make such a thing
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The Glumslinger posted:
Final step: "dump in trash"
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chitoryu12 posted:bitter cold ... too warm for snow to form 
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chitoryu12 posted:Jesus is a mycologist? No, Jesus is a biscuit (let him sop you up!) which makes him a shrimp.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:No, Jesus is a biscuit (let him sop you up!) which makes him a shrimp. Finally, the host and The Host explained in one simple sentence.
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gschmidl posted:Finally, the host and The Host explained in one simple sentence. All hail our prophet, Latrice Royale. Let us slay.
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Floridians have a weird reference point for cold. When I go visit my mom, usually in early spring, she always tells me to bring a coat because it’s cold; 50 at night and 70 in the day.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Floridians have a weird reference point for cold. When I go visit my mom, usually in early spring, she always tells me to bring a coat because it’s cold; 50 at night and 70 in the day. We get cold temperatures as low as 34 degrees in the year. They're just relatively brief and rarely result in snow even in the northern part of the state.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:Floridians have a weird reference point for cold. When I go visit my mom, usually in early spring, she always tells me to bring a coat because it’s cold; 50 at night and 70 in the day. It's the humidity coupled with the average person in FL being a gigantic baby about cold weather.
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Zipperelli. posted:It's the humidity coupled with the average person in FL being a gigantic baby about cold weather. My wife is from new Mexico where poo poo gets absolutely nightmare frigid, and she admits the cold here feels worse due to the humidity. It's like being cold and wet.
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DJ Fuckboy Supreme posted:I want to drink the green vanilla mint milk Because Thin Mints, and by extension anything that tastes like Thin Mints, are really good.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:My wife is from new Mexico where poo poo gets absolutely nightmare frigid, and she admits the cold here feels worse due to the humidity. It's like being cold and wet. Also people get used to the temperature range they live in. I can take 20 below all day with a good jacket, boots and a toque but if you asked me to handle a southern summer I'd perish.
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Poor guy is reduced to Hot Pocket reviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jLnBki4SU
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DJ Fuckboy Supreme posted:I want to drink the green vanilla mint milk Could be something just for St. Patrick's Day? Americans love green stuff in march.
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Iron Crowned posted:Poor guy is reduced to Hot Pocket reviews God we went on a hotpocket kick for a bit there, the quality surely has gone down hill...pizza is still passable as food, but the steak and cheese...the "cheese" is like this loosely gelatinous white substance that is flavorless but has the mouth feel of snot, and the meat is just intensely processed badness but chewy somehow. never again pockets, never again.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:My wife is from new Mexico where poo poo gets absolutely nightmare frigid, and she admits the cold here feels worse due to the humidity. It's like being cold and wet. I remember the fall in Boston regularly hitting the 30's and you could do with a nice sweatshirt and jeans. In Florida? 30's? good luck with that loadout.Humidity sucks.
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Zipperelli. posted:I remember the fall in Boston regularly hitting the 30's and you could do with a nice sweatshirt and jeans.
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It's weird, because I have been a southerner most of my life, and I have at least attempted to acclimatize to snow and poo poo. But I am just so loving glad I do not have to shovel out my house.
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zedprime posted:culture. Well at least we HAVE some of that down here
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