On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:00:01 -0700, "graham" > wrote:

> However, he was extremely
> conservative and cautious. He had never eaten a mushroom either, but that
> phobia came from childhood when someone he knew died from a wrong'un.

When I was a kid in the country, mushrooms came in cans or you picked
them and people died every single year eating mushrooms they'd picked.
My world was rocked when we moved to the big city and we could buy
cultivated mushrooms at the grocery store. I went from hating them
(canned mushrooms were slimy) to absolutely loving them... and I still
do.

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