Mushroom don'ts

[Nutso]

I happen to love wild mushrooms, but the trick is knowing what you have picked....because you don't eat this one!!!!

www.wmur.com/health/21359559/detail.html

[dennis78]

That sucks! That is why I don't eat wild mushrooms.

[kilog55]

ohh you can eat em but just follow the old rule, "when in doubt throw em out"

all mushrooms smell like the store mushrooms some people are just dumb and they die from it.

[fishleclair]

I only know of a few that I eat, One is a Lobster Mushroom and another is a Button Mushroom.....Other then that I wont touch them!!

[yedi21]

I love mushrooms, and would love to go out and pick wild ones, but just for that reason I don't. I hear you have to be very careful because some look so alike and If you don't know for sure that is the result!
I had actually signed on to ask anyone if they have ever heard of maple mushrooms? they look like white button mushrooms. Many years ago a friend of mine had some and he called them maple mushrooms they were out of this world! I would like to find some... but after reading the story about the mother and son I am not so sure!!!

[barkspud]

Boys they were lucky. I have only eaten murells when younger and in army. Spent some time with some old timers in missouri hunting and such. Was shown how to identify them and others but that was the only one I feel comfortable with. I am learning my mushrooms here in maine but havn,t eaten any. That was a handy totorial for me. Spent a lot of time in field eating 2 MRE,s and one hot meal out of a can a day. Finding berries or those little buggers was a treat lots of other things to like cat tail roots never new but handy.