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Daily Discussion Thread: Mon 07 Aug 2023

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The poison mushroom situation that killed 3 people is awful. I can’t comprehend why people would eat random mushrooms they pick in the wild. It wouldn’t even matter if I was an expert botanist of fungi, I can’t imagine ever having enough certainty to risk killing myself for lunch. Just go to colesworth. Holy crap.
- I’ve been reading up on this. Seems suss the person who cooked the poison meal didn’t get sick? So they didn’t eat their own meal, even try it during cooking?
  
  Yeah like "I've cooked mushrooms for everybody but I don't eat them and my kids don't eat them. Enjoy". 🚩 🚩 🚩
  
  They were old and may asked the younger DiL to do the cooking. I get asked to cook things all the time. 🤷‍♀️
  
  Yeah it’s weird. They haven’t said if she picked the mushrooms herself or someone else did. But, why cook a meal with mushrooms if you don’t like mushrooms? And her comment was ‘I didn’t do anything’ is odd. What does that mean? Didn’t do what? Pick them, cook them? Could just be a tragic mistake, but also feels odd.
  
  I don't think the comment was odd, in the context of having reports about homicide detectives having searched her home and interviewed her. What I do think is odd though is that there is nothing reported about where the mushrooms came from. I would expect something saying where they came from, the lack of explantion is the odd bit for me.
- It’s possible they were feeling the pinch on food. Wild mushrooms are terrifying though. I could never be sure enough
- There is a belief that wild and natural food ( or home grown ) is better for us than shop or supermarket bought food.
  It's an ignorant belief and this the outcome.

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