StratfordStan 9:16 Sun Oct 30
Mushroom Season
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Anyone out there picking? Been a bit slow so far
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WHU(Exeter)
9:20 Sun Oct 30
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No, I'm concentrating more on my compost, chopping it up as much as possible, so the rain and onset of Autumn decay can do it's best.
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Nurse Ratched
9:21 Sun Oct 30
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I've seen the standard amount for the time of year while I've been out and about. I don't pick and eat them, though. How nice to know a fellow shroom fan uses WHO.
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Iron Duke
9:27 Sun Oct 30
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You sound like a FUNGI
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gph
9:42 Sun Oct 30
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I used to pick boletes, but, round where I now live, various insects get in first and the fungi are full of maggots.
Ink caps are another easily spotted and safe (although smooth ones shouldn't be consumed with alcohol if you don't wan't a gut ache - for that reason, shaggy ones are my favourite)
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lab
9:59 Sun Oct 30
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I’ve picked several field mushrooms and eaten them , don’t trust myself with any others .
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SecondOpinion
10:02 Sun Oct 30
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Dozens of them in my garden
Some look a bit phallic if you ask me
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gph
10:19 Sun Oct 30
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Two of the most poisonous, the Death Cap and the Destroying Angel (no-one would eat them if they bore labels!) must be more commonly confused with field mushrooms than with any other edible species.
Just by looking at them (can't be arsed to find the stats)
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13 Brentford Rd
10:28 Sun Oct 30
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Thought Stan was taking about Magic Mushrooms, maybe he is?
Always had a bad trip on them in my youth.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:29 Sun Oct 30
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Both of the most deadly amanitas gpi mentions have white gills and are woodland species while the champignon or field mushroom has brown gills and is, well, a field mushroom.
Just cut the button to make sure it's safe (oooh-er nurse)
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joe royal
10:42 Sun Oct 30
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When I was a lad and all that me mum took us over Hainault forest with a meths stove, some bacon, bread and obs a frying pan and would teach my sister and I what ones we could pick and eat and the ones we couldn’t.
Simple times in the early 70’s.
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WHU(Exeter)
10:43 Sun Oct 30
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13 BR, possibly, yep, that's what I thought
I once did a load of them and then went down to the Ottery St Mary, tar barrel on fire rolling, narrow streets, barrels on fire, crowds so you can't move, mushrooms, what could possibly go wrong...
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Nurse Ratched
11:04 Sun Oct 30
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Ah, Tar Barrels. That brings back fond memories.
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StratfordStan
11:05 Sun Oct 30
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Found a renewed interest. Been posing as a golfer and picking away. Bloody liberty
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WHU(Exeter)
11:18 Sun Oct 30
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Nurse, when I went down to Ottery, as well as the flaming tar barrels, they also had a fair, with one of those very fast spinning things, where everyone is strapped in, I didn't realise you had to rest your neck and head back, to avoid all the pressure and wondered why everyone else was whooping with delight, when I was in real pain and the feeling that my neck was about to snap at any second because of g-force. All in all not my favourite of nights out.
There is probably a host of other better things to do, whilst off your trolley on mushrooms.
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Alfs
12:21 Mon Oct 31
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I used to live just down the road from Ottery St Mary. Avoided the tar barrel nights though.
A good test for edibility however is the taste test, if a tiny amount is placed on the tongue and chewed a burn like chilli means the mushroom is poisonous, a pleasant mushroomy taste means it is edible and an unpleasant taste means you wouldn't want to eat the mushroom anyway, says Mr Google.
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Capitol Man
4:06 Mon Oct 31
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There’s a spot in Windsor Great Park that’s choc-a-bloc with the magic kind.
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zebthecat
11:35 Mon Oct 31
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Loads around here as there are lots of woods but don't really trust myself with anything other than chicken of the woods as it is so obvious (also very tasty).
Have a couple of fly agaric in the garden. Pretty but very nasty indeed.
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Razzle
12:20 Mon Oct 31
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I've seen Mary Berry on the common whilst walking my dogs foraging for shrooms the tight cunt - well it probably isn't unless she undergone vaginal rejuvenation but that's another thread in its own merit.
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