welcomesite opened this issue on Jan 29, 2003 ยท 71 posts
welcomesite posted Wed, 29 January 2003 at 9:17 PM
I don't know anything about those mushrooms (they're also called 'fly agaric'.. but I don't think I'll be trying them? Has anyone tried Salvia divinorum? I haven't heard any negative health reports about it yet. Mushrooms in general are really risky business. I saw a report where a family was entertaining guests and the guests picked some mushrooms and made a meal for everyone. The people were very reluctant to eat wild mushrooms.. but the guests were very insistant that they had eaten this exact variety hundreds of times and were experts at mushroom selection. It turned out that a number of dinner guests died that evening, because what appeared to be a 'safe' mushroom in the guests home location, was a poisonous variety in the new location. Even plain old button mushrooms have a squeamish side. The FDA allows 6 large maggots per can of mushrooms, in the U.S. That revelation made me a devotee of the mushrooms in the produce isle!