Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/08/07/look-how-happy-the-mushroom.html
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Isn’t the Mushroom King the canonical father of Princess Peach?
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I found an awesome line of mushrooms growing on a live tree yesterday. Took a pic of it. I love weird fungi.
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Can you eat that thing? Because if you can we need to rethink that whole “Teach a man to fish …” business.
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I think if it is a bolate, then yes. We were camping up in Shasta a while back and tried to get over to some lava tubes. One car (mine) was not 4 wheel drive and the snow got to hip deep over the road so we turned back. My buddy’s Dad is a mushroom hunter and he said, well this area looks like it might be good for mushroom hunting… so we pull over and I open my door and almost step on a few morels, we gathered many pounds of bolates (none even close to that monster!) and ate em for breakfast lunch and dinner. Even took some home. A dab of garlic, some olive oil, sprinkle of salt and twist of pepper and done!
YUM!
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They so often have those little worms though.
He wears camouflage to sneak up on the shrooms more effectively?
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Since the part above ground is the fruiting body, what the hell is that thing like underground? Jabba the Hutt?
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I took home about 3lbs. of a Berkeley’s Polypore last summer. It was about 15-20% of the mushroom. Gamey flavor, tough and a little gritty. Diced it, and cooked it down with garlic, butter and Worcestershire sauce, and then it was pretty good added to stir-fry, and added it once to a Shooter’s Sandwich.
The “mother” is probably still there by the bike trail, ready to be plucked.
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He looks like a “Fun guy” 
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There didn’t appear to be “mushroom” in that bag… 
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I’ll get my coat…
And now, fellow mutants, please have a look at your biology textbook under the lemma Termitomyces titanicus Pegler & Piearce and consider the humble termite.
I found a bolete not half that size and was at least that pleased with myself.
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Look at this giant mushroom, wow!
Well, we can’t be letting it get any bigger! pick
Sometimes I wish people would just leave things alone. (I am pleased by how happy he is to find it though!)
ETA: I don’t really care THAT much in the case of a mushroom, but similar things with animals do really annoy me sometimes.
Is porcini and I am happy just to look at it.
