A friend sent me this recently. Spotted on a walk through a residential area. Thought it was a misplaced Halloween decoration at first

  • reader [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    18 days ago

    lolllll as someone who’s been there for when foraged mushrooms go bad, cosigned.

    Chicken of the woods is pretty easy to identify and tasty and I still would never ever do it over the internet and even in person my days of eating foraged mushrooms are probably over.

    It was like a goddamn zombie movie, we all ate them with dinner and then one by one we all succumbed to the worst food poisoning of our lives. 5 people, 2 bathrooms, so I had to run outside. We were lucky it was just food poisoning.

    And that was from one badly identified mushroom in a batch of like 10+ good ones, after a couple years of foraging experience.