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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

"What's for dinner?"
"MUSHROOM SLAB!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Now open it and breathe deeply. Welcome it into you. Become one with it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this step 1 for identifying any unknown mushroom? Or is it step 2 after "have a bite?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If step 1 is have a bite and step 2 is to have open communication with an entity from another universe, then we can ignore any previous instruction. I think. I am confused now, anyways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Well that looks fun, you get to be a mommy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Oh thanks, saved. Will break this image out next time it happens, though I usually end up dying from getting into desperate situations looking for antifungals before it gets to this point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Damn, that's beautiful. I've never found one larger than a golf ball. Delicious sliced and sauteed in butter!

Where was this generally, if I may ask?

I did find a cauliflower mushroom this past Thanksgiving about the size of my chest though.. So great as noodles in a chicken broth soup!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Delicious sliced and sauteed in butter!

This was before either of us knew about mycology so after this picture we put it back on the ground... 😔

I don't remember exactly where. At the time we were living in Asheville, NC, though, so that should give an idea of the general area

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Aha, much much further south and east, maybe that has something to do with it.

White puffers grow all across North America IIRC, but I'm on West Coast Canada (Pacific Northwest but over the border). It's a lot cooler here.

I would freaking lose my mind if I found a puffer that big. Keep an eye out ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah you could eat it. Or you could jump on it and make the biggest puff explosion of all time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I tried to fry one... Unfortunately not the best taste or smell in these big bois, the house reeked of it.

Cauliflower mushroom however is delicious! The bacon of the forest!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Puffball is the white one rimshot

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I too salute our mushroom overlords

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Still eating the puffball, the boyfriend not so much.....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wait... what ? This is eatable ?! Who long did you feed on it ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

everything bigger in america