The thing you're missing is that many mushrooms aren't all that straight up deadly, esp if cooked or boiled. They do however cause varying forms of gastric dist

The thing you're missing is that many mushrooms aren't all that straight up deadly, esp if cooked or boiled. They do however cause varying forms of gastric distress and diarrhea. Given the lack of good water and medicine back then that could have been way more deadly than the "that one will obviously kill you" variety.