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> I'm curious if parents still admonish their kids not to eat wild mushrooms. Absolutely. Really, eating anything you find in the wild is risky unless you’re c

• daveslash 7y ago
  On a 3 day backpacking in Wyoming trip I once ate a fist-full of Rubus phoenicolasius, thinking they were wild raspberries before I looked at the leaves and realized.... "those are not raspberries". Turns out they're fine...as anecdotal evidence shows... but now I'll generally conduct a thorough examination of the whole plant before eating anything; especially if I'm in a region in which I didn't grow up. When I'm home, I still eat all kinds of wild berries without really checking that thoroughly (strawberries, blueberries, cranberries -- both types, etc..).
• m463 7y ago
  More so after Into the Wild became a movie (not mushrooms) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless
• zipwitch 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_strawberry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mock_strawberry They fooled me once. I picked and ate one, noticed it didn't taste right almost immediately. Once you look more closely, the fruit is quite obviously different in shape and texture, but the leaves are near-perfect and the fruit is the right color. It certainly gave me a quick and fortunately danger-free reminder that there's a world of difference between "hey that looks like..." and "yes, after careful examination, this is...".
  • girvo 7y ago
    Did it taste any good on its own behalf? What a neat plant!
    • liability 7y ago
      I used to hunt for these for fun when I was a kid. They taste plantish, nothing like real strawberries. But when you're bored and locked outside to keep you away from screens, they're fun to pick.
  • egdod 7y ago
    That’s crazy. Maybe strawberries aren’t as easy to identify as I thought.