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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 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.