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Mystery smell reported across regions of Russia and Finland (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Who tf looks at a disgusting brain shaped mushroom and tries to eat it? God damn I'd rather starve than eat something that looks like that.

Then again I do have an unnatural hatred for all mushrooms. Disgusting little things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Funny that you're getting downvoted for not liking mushrooms.

I personally love 'em but they can definitely look pretty freaky and they can be pretty slimy too after rain or in moist environments. Acquired taste for sure.

As to who the fuck in their right mind eats poisonous brain shaped mushrooms, it's mostly us weirdos in the northeastern parts of Europe, especially Finland and Russia. The English Wikipedia's a bit wrong about poisonings caused by G. esculenta being common in Scandinavia though; pretty much the only ones eating them around these parts are us Finns and we're not even Scandinavian (which only encompasses Sweden, Norway and Denmark), and the last known fatal poisonings caused by it are from 1953 and 1949 – both caused by a child accidentally eating unprepared mushrooms – and there's only been a few mild cases in the past 20 years, at least a couple of them involving tourists who tried to prepare them themselves. I don't think Swedes or Norwegians really eat them very often, but I dunno about Danes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Amos Burton prefers algae to mushrooms.