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Mycology is a complicated field (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The ones in the comic don't look like death caps, but those are responsible for 90% of mushroom-related poisonings, so we'll assume artistic license.

Death caps probably would go well with pasta. Here is an article from The Atlantic with someone who has tasted one.

Britt Bunyard, the founder, publisher, and editor in chief of the mycology journal Fungi, has tasted a death cap. “Very pleasant and mushroomy,” he told me. “A nice flavor, and then you spit it out.”

“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How much of it is needed to kill someone?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I'm no expert, but Wikipedia says half of one death cap can kill. For some reason, they don't offer an upper range for what will kill.

That doesn't mean you'll have an OK time eating it in small amounts; it will still make you violently ill and cause damage to your liver.

Before I continue, I want to stress that this is not medical advice or even a personal recommendation. Do not do what I am about to say.

In the case above, the important part is spitting it out. The toxins enter the body via the intestinal walls (which is also why symptoms are fairly delayed), so a taste and spit--and probably some rinsing and even more spitting--will mean that relatively little poison makes it any further than your mouth.

Again, I'm not an expert on mushrooms, medicine, poisons or anything else. All of this is from casual reading from the Internet. Don't eat poison.