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I am curious, does similar 'mushroom posioning' starts happening in last few years, or does similar incidents happened across last decades?
by deely3 3y ago
I am curious, does similar 'mushroom posioning' starts happening in last few years, or does similar incidents happened across last decades?
- krastanov 3y agoWild mushroom foraging is pretty common in Eastern Europe. Warnings about it in elementary school was why I was scared of eating mushrooms for a decade (admittedly a rather childish overreaction ;). Every few years I will hear about someone getting severely ill. Context: growing up in Bulgaria in the 90s and 00s.
- yread 3y agoin other words something like 30% of population goes foraging for mushrooms at least once a year and once a year someone dies. It's so rare that they write about it in the newspaper
- oneshtein 3y agoThis tradition predates Russian Empire.
- Muromec 3y agoObligatory https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287736 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287736
- dagw 3y agoPicking wild mushrooms is super common in Scandinavia. I had some mushrooms my wife picked for dinner yesterday. You read about maybe 1-2 deaths or serious illnesses a year in the newspaper, and it always makes national news. So yes it happens, but it's probably quite literally a 1-in-a-million event.