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Granity · 25-05-2013, 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Adam Funk[_3_]

On 2013-05-23, wrote:

In article ,
Adam Funk wrote:

Are any of the non-deadly poisonous ones things that anyone would
actually want to eat, though? (For taste, I mean --- hallucinogenic
ones are of course a different kettle of fish.) AIUI, mushrooms are
generally divided into (1) tasty & safe, (2) dangerous, & (3) neither
--- with the majority falling in the 3rd group.

Yes, and you are correct. I once ate Boletus felleus (don't ask),
and I had minor diarrhoea but two other people had no effect;
the point there is that more of the boleti taste good than are
advisable to eat. Tom Gardner's remarks are also relevant to
this.

Well, my 3-way division above was NOT correct then, since are tasty &
(at least somewhat) dangerous ones.

The critical point is that you need to be absolutely sure that
you don't eat a lethal one by mistake, because lethal means just
that - and, if they don't kill you, you may need a liver
transplant to survive. But there aren't all that many of those,
and there are a lot that are excellent and very easy to separate
from anything lethal.

Right.

As an expert said on the tele the other night: "All mushrooms are edible, it's just that some will prevent you from ever eating them twice." This was after a discussion on poisonous Fungi, so it was in context.