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Your counter example is one guy dying from poisoning, in a country that does a lot of shroom foraging (берем гъби у гората). The Russia rocket expert was likel
by oblak 3y ago
Your counter example is one guy dying from poisoning, in a country that does a lot of shroom foraging (берем гъби у гората).
The Russia rocket expert was likely killed.
- krastanov 3y agoYou are reading too much in what I said. Of course weird things are happening in an unstable dictatorship like Russia and this guy might have been assassinated for one reason or another. That does not mean it is not nice to give people context about the culture in that end of the world though.
- throw_pm23 3y agoI think you make it sound more exotic than it is. People pick mushrooms around the world. Slightly more common in SE-Europe, a bit less so than a few decades ago. People tend to stick to the 1-2 species they know best, poisonings are extremely rare.
- krastanov 3y agoFair point, but I am surprised to hear that. My US friends (New England) have been extremely surprised when they hear that foraging for mushrooms is common where I come from (on the rare occasions when this comes up).
- one_level_deep2 3y agoIt is also pretty common in parts of the US. They probably don't know about that either. I know people who go morel hunting every spring in the midwest (Iowa and Illinois, specifically). https://www.thegreatmorel.com/regional-morels-midwest-region/#:~:text=Those%20in%20the%20northern%20parts,a%20very%20popular%20spring%20pastime https://www.thegreatmorel.com/regional-morels-midwest-region....