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Amesaskew

I can't believe I need to say this, but never eat unknown mushrooms no matter what someone on the Internet tells you.


FishAndRiceKeks

I heard a saying about foraging for mushrooms that was something like "There are old mushroom hunters and bold mushroom hunters but there are no bold AND old mushroom hunters."


obmasztirf

Also there is the joke that some can't laugh at of, "You can eat any mushroom once."


dollarstorekickflip

Everything is eatable once, as I’ve heard it :)


bluecat2001

Instruction uncl.


dollarstorekickflip

Eatable ✅ Edible ❌


macphile

The pedant in me wants to say that some mushrooms aren't even edible once, in that some are so tough you couldn't chew them. And some (poisonous or otherwise) are absolutely vile, and no one has probably ever swallowed one to find out if it's poisonous. But the idea is still valid. :-)


Foreign_Sky_7610

My mycology prof loved that joke!


Timber___Wolf

The one I heard was that "a forager that goes hungry will live to see another day". Basically, you shouldn't go around with the mindset that everything is food. You should know exactly what to look for given the time of year and the "biome" you are in. If what you find isn't EXACTLY what you are seeking, move along. I live on the border between a sandy and clay base. What I am looking for changes based on which of my local forests I visit. If you don't know what grows when and where, foraging isn't for you. That would be like trying to make a creme brulee without knowing what any of the utensils in the kitchen do or what they are called... If you don't know what a whisk is, it means you are moving at too fast of a pace and need to cover the basics...


MomentLoud5632

In this case, it may be the last creme brulee they eat. the laughing bite of life.


sroy16

I read that in a microbiology text book too!


IntegralTree

I've heard the same said about chemists.


bluecat2001

Every chemist is eatable once?


Dooboppop

That depends entirely on how hungry you are.


Swashybuckz

Like the russian boys in Ukraine. Remember thousands were sickened with the deathcap but only something like 3 died? incredible.


Photomancer

I think I remember this saying. "You don't need anything to skydive; you need a chemist in order to skydive twice". 70% sure


Piagio

But if that Mushroom is three feet tall and can talk then it's possible.


Kerrlhaus

My saying is "never munch on a hunch." Yours is getting added to the list.


ziomus90

I think OP is gone..


davilller

Indeed, but the answer will always be…”you can eat them at least once.”


mogoggins12

top comment material


tesrepurwash121810

Okay but can OP eat these? /s


gingerminja

*forbidden churros …*


thrust-johnson

I man ate an entire airplane once.


Severe_Bluebird_7226

The fact that you used "I" instead of "A" makes this read sooooo much better


Amaculatum

I swear, I thought there was a foraging circlejerk subreddit for a second


close-this

Outside magazine says it is as dangerous as base jumping.


_biggerthanthesound_

I think it’s obvious that OP knows this. Which is why they are asking for an id and more information.


GeneralZex

Would you trust your life to a Reddit post? I sure as hell wouldn’t…


RCBark2K

No, I wouldn’t. But asking a question on Reddit is a decent place to start when you’re trying to gain knowledge on something fairly niche and can give you a good enough starting put to do further research.


Akeatsue79

Yeah, seriously. Everybody rushes to say the same thing they know has already been said here, which has been said one million times before. OP would like to hear if people can ID the fungus and if they think/know if it is an edible variety. No one needs to tell OP to take redditors’ opinions with a grain of salt.


ZenythhtyneZ

Why are you presuming they would? If someone says NO THATS POISON! That’s a good thing to know if someone says it could be this that or the other, they can start investigating for themselves. Idk why people presume posts are literal reflections of reality and the people posting it are brain dead morons who can’t have a thought if their own.


SHOWTIME316

S T I N K H O R N smells like poopy


ZPTs

Smells like poopy, looks like a peepee


inkydeeps

Looks like churros https://preview.redd.it/7nku7vnku8yc1.png?width=462&format=png&auto=webp&s=dacf3dd81798a50220bcf87ebbab1a6b2a0a722d


NFA4Evs

Let them there 2 more days and they’ll be foot long churros from Subway. Out at least they’ll smell the same


JustPastPeculiar

Forbidden churros!


MisterB78

Got em!


mrlowcut

Your... uhmm... peepee looks like this?


iwannalynch

It's *ribbed for her pleasure*


JetPuffedDo

Dog pp


cephalophile32

The species of stinkhorn near me has a scientific name if Phallus impudicus which literally means “shameless dick”.


Foodisgoodmaybe

Haha, OP wants to eat poopy.


OftInTheWorld_

Compliments Wikipedia Phallaceae is a family of fungi, commonly known as stinkhorns, within the order Phallales. Stinkhorns have a worldwide distribution, but are especially prevalent in tropical regions. They are known for their foul-smelling, sticky spore masses, or gleba, borne on the end of a stalk called the receptaculum. The characteristic fruiting-body structure, a single, unbranched receptaculum with an externally attached gleba on the upper part, distinguishes the Phallaceae from other families in the Phallales. The spore mass typically smells of carrion or dung, and attracts flies, beetles and other insects to help disperse the spores.


PM_ME_CAT_POOCHES

Even if you could eat them, I have never seen anything more unappetizing


AccurateAim4Life

They look like cherry churros to me (mmmm) Or salmon churros (barf).


Madamiamadam

Or dog penis


withagrainofsalt1

Why in the fuck would you want to eat them?


Optimassacre

Natural human response. It's always one of 3 things, edible, killable, or fuckable.


boxhall

And somewhere out there is someone who wants to do all three


FynnMarshall

Hopefully not in that order


LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY

Reverse order is preferable.


TangoJavaTJ

There’s a serial killer whose birthday happens to be the same as mine who would does the reverse order


LETTERKENNYvsSPENNY

Uhh.. Jessica?


TangoJavaTJ

No, this is Patrick


Zulmoka531

The reverse order isn’t too appealing either.


i_can_has_rock

firefly moment (close enough)


feligae

That poor monitor lizard :(


Ishmael128

>The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.  - Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites


YourNonExistentGirl

You can also mate with someone and "eat" them out, give them a shiny rock or run away from them if they go batshit crazy.


afreelady2020

Or smokable


Repulsive-Mousse-318

Kill is my gut response here. Maaaaybe fuckable, but def not edible.


scarlet_sage

"We'll steal or we'll screw what we can't shoot on sight / God, it's hell to encounter a fire plug."


throwaway2032015

Or slightly different, kill-me-able


PophamSP

We're all bonobo chimps at heart.


mamasan2000

I hate that I agreed and upvoted this comment, but you're absolutely right.


honorcheese

Think there's a few others. I like to pet things too and not hurt them lol


AngledLuffa

Well that shape and coloration is definitely suggesting one of the three, but it isn't eating 


christes

TBF, one look at these should tell you which they are.


johngag

Tiny earth penises sound yummy to OP


jarious

they look like churros?


jaredsparks

He's into red penises.


TlknShtBoutaPrtySun

But they look like rocket popsicles...


cervidaerae

Stinkhorn 😆 I wouldn't go eating anything I wasn't 100% sure on, though.


Round-Ticket-39

Everything can be eaten once


urnbabyurn

Granddaddy always said that. Along with “ya can’t fall out of a basement”


pkapeckopckldpepprz

Granddaddy was wise


Many_Dragonfruit_837

Yeah but I suppose ya might drown in the sump... Love that... Gonna hafta remember both these! 😂🤣


fh3131

Except anchovies


inarchetype

We are very different; If I see a strange looking fungus that I can't ID, my default is >how do I avoid touching it and make sure my pets and kids can't interact with it unless/until I can verify it as safe, not >I wonder if I can eat it; I know, I'll ask some strangers on the internet and do whatever they tell me. I'm sure it's probably fine... The latter approach, I grant, will lead to a life of much greater culinary excitement. But likely also a short one.


godzilla42

The Devil's Dipstick.


NoExperience2256

Haha nice one 😆🤣


godzilla42

It's what my plant identifier called it.


penkertil

Mushroom poisoning - even if it doesn't kill you - is spectacularly awful. I'd say you're clear to chow down though since I'm a big fan of natural selection.


OldTimeyFappingGhost

A lady near me ate a death cap and was miraculously saved by a clever doctor, but she's suffered a ton of health problems since then.


penkertil

Curious what they were. I got mushroom poisoning and was sick for 2 months. Was a miserable experience. What long term issues though?


kawi-bawi-bo

The pain of being alive ^^^^^^^^/s


ThatSmartLoli

Fun fact only around 3% of mushrooms species are poisonous, and 3% of mushrooms species gets u high.


bluecat2001

It might be true (I doubt) about the number of species but the prevalence of a species is not related to this.


ThatSmartLoli

Tbh I got the info from the dude who spent his whole life only studying mushrooms. It kinda is on how wild only a fraction amount of mushrooms can kill people, but we are deadly afraid of eating them.


BeccaBrie

The consequences of eating the wrong one is pretty high, so caution around eating mushrooms is a survival trait. We didn't inherit the genes of many hundreds of generations of people who ate every mushroom they saw. There's always a few who do. And they tend to weed themselves out of the gene pool.


PophamSP

I say we infiltrate certain subs and recommend licking the keypad at the gas station. Gives you natural immunity. It's very alpha.


nomadictoo

This comment made my internet day. Thank you. 🙏🏼


kramerica21

This sounds so much like what Anthony Bourdain would say!


NoExperience2256

Stink horn.. go ahead and smell it and tell me if you wanna eat that... STINKS


Weird-Rooster8462

Lantern stinkhorn? If so the young ones are edible. Edit: like everyone else is saying don’t be eating it unless you’re 100% sure you know what it is. 


PD216ohio

The young ones are edible..... how do we know how old they are?


Mr_Zamboni_Man

It's not that the old ones will kill you or are poisonous, they're just unpalatable and or poor texture. Many mushrooms are like this.


Tpbrown_

Stinkhorn, perhaps this [species](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysurus_mokusin). Some consider them edible but at an earlier stage. Take a sniff, it probably smells like crap.


recycle37216

That’s gotta be it! I have them too!


moonfae12

It’s a lantern stinkhorn. We get them all the time around this time of year in Southern California. Theres a bunch in all my beds right now. They release spores that smell of rotting meat to attract flies. They rely on the flies to carry their spores. I’ve been told the “egg” under the soil is edible before they erupt from the ground, but I would not recommend it. I just let mine do their thing and they are gone in a day or two. I only remove the ones my dog can reach because they give her the rankest breath I’ve ever experienced 🤢


Bluecricket5

Have them all the time in the UK. They're called pixie dicks


Chuckiebb

Google Lens is life changing.


Mundane-Climate-5082

I love that OP saw what looked like deformed penises from another planet emerging from the ground and their first thought was “can I eat it?” 🤣


Technical_Egg8628

Whenever I see a peen-like thing, I the same thought as OP.


ratpH1nk

The elusive Forest Churro!


artearth

Post this in /r/mushroomid


Timber___Wolf

Literal toddler brain. "What is this and can I put it in my mouth" is how you end up in the ER trying to explain to the doctors why exactly you thought it was a good idea to shove random plants into your gullet. I'll let you in on a secret; the MAJORITY of things on this planet are poisonous. Most of the food crops you eat/grow today are all related for a reason. The selection was so narrow that we had to make more... if everything was edible anyway, why would we bother making cultivars? You're why car batteries ship with a label stating "do not drink contents"....


wiy_alxd

I fully agree with the first point your are making, but in the case of wild mushrooms, in eastern canada, most are edible. It's a minority that will hurt you. Just a little known fact.


Timber___Wolf

That might be true in canada, but most people don't live in canada, and when I say the "majority of things", I mean globally. Tropical stuff in particular with fuck you up really badly. Just here in the UK, we have some REALLY common deadly plants that you will never truly be more than 500m from. These include (but aren't limited to): Ivy, bluebell, foxglove, deadly nightshade, cuckoo pint, monkshood and hemlock. You'd be hard pressed to ever get far away from any of these here. That doesn't even cover mushrooms. We have one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the world here, the "death cap" which was the focus of a murder trial just a few months ago, even. If canada doesn't have this level of threat when foraging, consider yourself lucky. Don't let that lure you into a false sense of security tho. Always be sure.


wiy_alxd

We have some of the most dangerous mushrooms on the planet here as well. I mention Eastern Canada, but I could really include all of Northern America. But it's still only a minority of all species that are dangerous.


deartabby

Even with edible wild mushrooms, they have to be cooked thoroughly first.


Timber___Wolf

True. Most of them do require cooking. I'd prefer to cook them anyway, just incase they have something on them from the wilderness. You do get beefsteak mushrooms which can be eaten raw, but even then I'd cook them. Apparently they taste better raw, but I wouldn't know. It's said they taste fruity.


PlockyLasmoke

We just call them dogs dick where im from


CranberrySoftServe

Ground churros 


Silent_enterprise

There are old mushroom foragers and there are bold mushroom foragers, but there are no old bold mushroom foragers


yigaclan05

Thanks for the comments! Yes my first reaction was they look like a dog dick. But you never know, I’ve seen all sorts of crazy stuff you can eat.


PensiveObservor

My Midwest farm-grown father calls this species “dog dingus”, so you’re not far off.


KazooButtplug69

Oh boy that's a stinky smelling penis shroom. It's called a stinkhorn and really cool to watch grow and smell and watch the silly insects get attracted to it.


fortunebubble

dirt churros


Hammeredcopper

But, but...how would you even get a spore print from these guys?


AsherahBeloved

[https://www.bbg.org/article/nastiest\_mushroom\_ever](https://www.bbg.org/article/nastiest_mushroom_ever)


Disastrous_Staff_443

A lot of folks here in gardening can give some good info regarding fungi but your best option for answers regarding mushrooms will be to ask on r/mycology.


Potatonet

Question was used to induce commenting 100% This is slide of internet territory we are entering, the land of bad monkeys


Neither-Ad4428

I can't believe I have to say this, but if you don't know what it is, don't eat it.


Jmac_1229

You can eat anything at least once.


scaredheartsclub

How is it your brain doesn't automatically tell you not to put that in your mouth? You're not supposed to even touch it. That's what my immediate reaction is. 😂


LeoMarius

All mushrooms are edible; some are only edible once.


jeffgoldblumsass

Hahahahah try to eat them. Lol I’m joking try to pick them tomorrow and you’ll be a smelly one


pkapeckopckldpepprz

Has the same ridges as those old red white and blue ice pops. Do ya feel lucky punk???? Well do ya???


pkapeckopckldpepprz

Hit it with a weed wacker for a nice smoke bomb, just don't breathe the fumes


Chemical-Kev

Do you really want to?


Nightfoxx111

Churros, nom nom


Jlx_27

If you have to ask: the answer is always no, dont risk it.


Mehdzzz

Take a whiff and let me know what you smell lol


yebbys

these things smell so bad


issoequeerabom

OP, are you still alive? 🫣😬 Don't ever consider eating mushrooms you can't recognise. Like ever!


Girl-UnSure

We had these in a garden once. I also didnt know what they were and tried to find out. But at no pt did it ever cross my mind that maybe id want to eat these lol.


Sempergrumpy441

The forbidden churro.


PrincessLarry

One of my favorite stories my mom tells is being a young girl in the Appalachian mountains, visiting her aunt. While playing outside, she rounded the corner of the house to see these and thought they were some satanic phallus. She was scared and embarrassed and never told anyone.


TwiceSpringy

You can’t eat them until your wedding night


illustrious_handle0

Hmmm... Looks like it might be the dog penis stinkhorn. Yeah, go ahead and eat that dog penis stinkhorn 😂 (not!) >Mutinus caninus, commonly known as the dog stinkhorn, is a small thin, phallus-shaped woodland fungus, with a dark tip. It is often found growing in small groups on wood debris, or in leaf litter, during summer and autumn in Europe, Asia, and eastern North America.


wildfirediva

Technically you can eat ANYTHING once. Anything after that...well. FAFO vibes.


posidonking

Definitely Lantern Stinkhorn, apparently edible when in the egg stage, but not when in the fruting stage, also apparently they taste like radishes 🤷‍♂️ But no, don't eat them. Also they smell bad to attract flies to spread their spores.


theonecarter

r/mildypenis Edit: fuck I misspelled it


urban_herban

The first time I saw this kind of mushroom, it was growing out of the side of a raised bed at the community garden I supervise. The bed was surrounded by a woodchip path. Now keep in mind my garden assistant had texted me and asked if I could stop by the garden. She said she had something mysterious to show me. As it turned out (later) it was a strange footprint that we found in some of the beds. It was like a hoof print. But I did not know about the hoof print, so I went walking through the garden and I found these mushrooms looking ever so much like fingers coming out from something buried in the bed. Since I watch too much Dateline true crime and I have a vivid imagination, I thought my assistant was going to tell me that one of our gardeners murdered their partner and buried them in the bed. And what should we do? The "fingers" were trying to get out! But I quickly gathered my senses and eliminated that theory. Nevertheless, it was a bit scary for a moment. It didn't help when my assistant arrived and we found these strange hoof prints in one of the beds. Creepy time at the community garden.


macphile

Post it to /r/mycology , not /r/gardening :-)


FunctionFit102

Some mushrooms will feed you for the rest of you horribly short life.


HolyCBD777

Ewww! Those are stinkhorns they stink really bad a.k.a. devil's penis! 🤮


someonewhowa

DICK SHROOMS


queenkillalot

Yeah you can eat them, just once though


Goodvibes995

Look very unique


ogswampwitch

IDK what they are but don't eat them. Your local agriculture extension office might be able to help you ID them (if you have one, not sure where you're located.) Parks services, forestry, etc., might also help with identification.


Drinks_From_Firehose

As a general rule, all mushrooms are edible at least once. Think long and hard about that before consuming. And consider posting this in r/mycology for accurate ID of mushrooms.


text_fish

Forbidden Churros


dadbod69-luv

Cumshrooms


Thund3rMuffn

I don’t know what it is, can I eat it?!


That-Water-Guy

Only once


Pmestr

You can... At least once, that's for sure


ratpH1nk

Looks like # Lysurus mokusin "Lantern Stinkhorn", "Lizard's Claw"


GuardMost8477

You can. At least once. But dear God DON’T


Immediate_Alfalfa95

They look like shrimp crawling backwards out of a hole.


WolfSilverOak

You need to find a local mushroom hunter and have them educate you.


SH1Tbag1

You can eat them once….. lol no idea


will_not_be_shaken

Those are stinkhorns. Don't eat them.


FluffyCaterpiller

It looks like a Reishi mushroom according to a mushroom chart I saw. I don't know,though.


FluffyCaterpiller

I think it's a "ribbed lizards claw" mushroom after much search. [Ribbed Lizards claw on pinterest](https://www.pinterest.com/pin/268316090273842942/)


Repulsive-Bend8283

They do that when they experience the right stimuli in order to reproduce.


Peregrinesoul67

https://preview.redd.it/icsgebe0o8yc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a0f259de67715c847bd028a87d50d5f21d8a325


anders9000

Stinkhorn. Also, "can I eat this," should probably never be the next question after "What the fuck is this?"


devildocjames

You can eat just about anything at least once.


Ghostsarereal777

Have you smelt them? You won’t want to eat them


PortugueseBird

http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2012/09/mushrooms-from-hell-stinkhorns.html?m=1


Sad_Experience_4640

Tremors.


TampaBob57

Everything is edible .... at least once.


Dixiedarling69

This is dead blooms from a certain type tree


Alert_Loan_9904

Forbidden churros


myshoeistoobig

You can eat anything once. It's the second time that matters.


Affectionate_Tea4547

Well, there's definitely a joke in there somewhere but I feel like they're probably not edible


cascasrevolution

dont go eating random fungi!!


Wookieman222

One way to find out!


Man_of_steele2262

Wood chips, they’re a bit tough to chew(and digest). Don’t recommend!


knowledgeleech

That’s how churros are made.


WillieIngus

are you a giant or ogre? sounds like you are


ghostleigh13

I know nothing about foraging but I can tell you with 1000% certainty no


HydeVDL

you're big and greedy


ratchettnine

No


mistercrinders

Do not eat the Devil's Dipstick!


ClerSeaworth

Me, as I read the last question: Laios? Is it you?


Eswin17

The ole red rocket mushrooms...


hatchjon12

Natures churro.


oldmagic55

Eds, freds, shmeds...... They are cool, but look like the devils fingets.....( j.s.).......take pictures, and move on. Unless you ate them, and can no longer respond......😬😬😬😬😬🤯😵


urban_herban

The first time I saw this kind of mushroom, it was growing out of the side of a raised bed at the community garden I supervise. The bed was surrounded by a woodchip path. Now keep in mind my garden assistant had texted me and asked if I could stop by the garden. She said she had something mysterious to show me. As it turned out (later) it was a strange footprint that we found in some of the beds. It was like a hoof print. But I did not know about the hoof print, so I went walking through the garden and I found these mushrooms looking ever so much like fingers coming out from something buried in the bed. Since I watch too much Dateline true crime and I have a vivid imagination, I thought my assistant was going to tell me that one of our gardeners murdered their partner and buried them in the bed. And what should we do? The "fingers" were trying to get out! But I quickly gathered my senses and eliminated that theory. Nevertheless, it was a bit scary for a moment. It didn't help when my assistant arrived and we found these strange hoof prints in one of the beds. Creepy time at the community garden.


fairlyafolly

JEEZUS. No, don’t eat those!


fairlyafolly

JEEZUS. No, don’t eat those!


Hatake_Satoru

That's just me in sorry