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Mycology (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 121 points 7 months ago* (20 children)

I eat white button mushrooms raw, after a quick rinse of the dirt. No problem, as long as I get them from the store, properly cultivated by the shroom experts.

The image posted looks sorta similar, but is not a white button mushroom.

Thanks Google, AI has no fucking business telling anyone about mushrooms.

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  • [–] 107 points 7 months ago* (14 children)

    The image posted looks sorta similar, but is not a white button mushroom.

    This mushroom is almost certainly the reason why it's drilled in so hard that you shouldn't eat random mushrooms in the woods unless you are absolutely sure it's safe.

    Destroying Angel mushrooms look like puffball mushrooms when they're initially fruiting, and then grow to look like button mushrooms before they reach full maturity. If you eat one of these you'll get severe abdominal pain and vomit for around 24 hours and then show signs of recovery. However, by that point it's almost certainly too late, and organ failure and death is soon to follow

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    So in a fucked up way, those TikTok kids swallowing Tide pods a few years ago are smarter than Gemini recommending “yummy button mushrooms”?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    No. They did less damage to themselves, but they were eating something that they knew was very obviously not food for a social media "challenge". Trusting the wrong source and attempting to eat food is very slightly smarter.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    They mostly weren't eating them, just making staged videos of themselves doing something dumb the way teenagers have ever since they got access to cameras. The problem is that biting into one and spitting it out again can be enough to kill you as laundry detergent can corrode your tongue and throat in seconds and it's very easy to inhale liquid throat. The media reported it as teens eating tide pods, which made staging fake eating tide pod videos using a real tide pod as a prop seem like a fun idea for even more teenagers. If the media had been a little more responsible, then they could have got the message across that something more dangerous than it seemed was dangerous instead of telling people something obviously dangerous that hadn't happened was dangerous.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I appreciate the context, but I just want to point out that you're blaming "the media" for people putting laundry detergent in their mouth. I did dumb teenage things, yet even I feel qualified to say how knowingly stupid that is, especially for the payoff of... online validation?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    The average person can be surprisingly dumb. The average teenager can be ludicrously much dumber. Dumb teenagers can be even dumber still. If the warning on the packet says do not eat but not do not put in mouth and warnings on packets generally tell you not to do things everyone knows would be dangerous, it doesn't take much dumbness to come to the conclusion that it's fine as long as you don't swallow any.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    They can save people if caught in time. First things first, eat charcoal, crush and mix with water and drink. Not briquettes either actual charcoal it soaks up toxins and you excrete them instead of absorbing.

    But the hospitals have liver protective substances, including milk thistle root extract they give.

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  • [+] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    From my friends who do foraging: you only eat stuff you 1000% know doesn't have an imitator in the area, and even then you're tossing out about 3/4 of what you forage just to be safe.

    Buy your mushrooms from the store.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Basically, check the details against known examples.

    Things to check:

    • shape (both inside and out)
    • color (both inside and out)
    • gills
    • spore pattern
    • what it was growing on
    • what season you found it
    • what location you found it

    Ideally, you'll be with someone that knows the mushrooms in the area and can offer more guidance. And again, if you aren't 100% sure of the fungus, toss it rather than take a chance.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Yes, you do not even need a doctor if you catch it soon enough, eat charcoal. After it is absorbed into your bloodstream you need a hospital. Although certain plants help protect the liver like milk thistle and teasel root extract which grow wild at least in North America here. But they have other stuff too.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Yeah, you got a point there. I'm certainly no mushroom expert either, but one thing in particular I noticed about the photo is that the stem part isn't smooth, which is different than the smooth stem of a white button mushroom. I prefer to err on the side of caution, like if I see a mushroom out in the woods, I'm just gonna assume it's not safe to eat.

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