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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On 2013-12-11 2:46 PM, sf wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:00:01 -0700, "graham" > wrote:
> >
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> I love mushrooms and will gladly eat any that have been commercially
> grown or distributed. I don't want to take any chances with wild
> mushrooms because I don't know much about them, except that you can get
> really sick from them.

Ever since I was a child we picked and ate field mushrooms by the
pound and never had a problem. My son and DIL pick and dry a much wider
variety of wild mushrooms, but they have been taught by someone who does
it for a living.

Janet UK