Hmmmmm! I Wonder...........
when I fried mushrooms the other day, I figured.. as so many times before! how do we know we can pick certain mushrooms and leave others....Today it's not that heard if you just have a keen eye and one of those millions of books about muschrooms...but a hundred or two hundred years ago I don't know but I don'r think they had one! and that means people must have tried to eat the muschrooms..... and I wonder, I wonder just how many lives were risked when finding out which ones you could eat and which ones you couldn't eat!
I mean some mushroom you have to cook, boil for atleast 7 houers or so. that mean that first someone might have eaten it raw and died. next prson maybe boiled it for while, ate it and died to. maybe not as quick or painful as the first one so that they could see a pattern. then someone boiled it for six houers, got sick. and maybe a forth person boiled it for seven houers and discovered that it was actually a very tasteful mushroom! I mean what made them do this? "lets try and boil them for another houer! I know the naigbours didn't make it but maybe we will?"
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or how about these mushrooms "you can't eat those no matter what you do with them!" I wonder how many people died before they realized just how poisonous they are and decided to write it off the list of eatable mushrooms......
or those mushrooms which aren't poisonous but doesn't taste wery well either...so they must have tasted their way through the world of mushrooms....! it must have been quite a lottery! did they take turns?
"lets try these ones tonight, the neighbours made a good deed for the sake of mushrooms in the dishes yesterday, and they survived and now it's our turn...." crazy!
....or maybe they just picked some mushrooms by mistake and didn't notice until after they
had eaten them....?
quite a shock that must have been!................
