• Kyden
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      211 year ago

      Everyone loves a good toilet mushroom

      • HonkyTonkWoman
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        71 year ago

        Toilet mushrooms go great with crotch fries, they really bring out that tanginess.

    • Pandantic [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Isn’t it amazing how the coming together of minds from across the world can bring fresh and new vocabulary to the world?

      • @RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        It’s one of the things I love most about being alive. When I was a kid I loved reading the names and flavor text of Duel Masters cards. They always seemed pulled from the most weirdest corners of people’s minds lol

        My favorites were always the lovecraftian horrors that had really mundane descriptions.

    • @Zetta@mander.xyz
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      111 year ago

      Enjoy the grow, nothing to be worried about. You should try to pick them before they start dropping spores, but it’s not a big deal if they drop spores.

    • Zammy95
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      71 year ago

      Are you at least vaguely responsible? You should be fine, grow a way man!

    • @andros_rex@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      This is unlikely to happen unless you are neglecting your home maintenance - the mushrooms are probably the least of these folks worries.

  • Elaine Cortez
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    301 year ago

    I don’t know why but mushrooms growing on things like carpet/flooring really scares me for some reason 😂 😱

    • @mouserat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      181 year ago

      Me too - for me because things like my floor are meant to be durable, and seeing it being destroyed so easily just by some spores flying around discomfits me.

      • @evranch@lemmy.ca
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        61 year ago

        Fungus can consume nearly anything organic, but it has to be damp. Even “dry rot” is only dry when you see it, it was once wet for the mycelium to spread through it.

        I grew up in a wet climate where we feared mold and fungus, now I live in a dry one where we run humidifiers. You won’t ever see mildew or black mold here without a constant moisture source.

  • nifty
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    When I was in high school my family slept on a single mattress in the living room. For some reason I don’t remember, the water from the half bath next to the living room would leak out into the living room, and so the wall separating the living room and half bath would get colonies of mushrooms growing out of the baseboard. Those mushrooms weren’t as exotic as these, tho. I don’t recommend sleeping next to things that give off spores.

  • @pastaPersona@lemmy.world
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    251 year ago

    Probably a terrible idea, but would these in any way be safe to eat?

    Obviously not the toilet mushrooms, but maybe the ones growing out of the chair, cracks in the floor etc would be safe to cook if washed?

    • Sippy Cup
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      301 year ago

      Mushrooms grow out of rotting organic matter. Oyster mushrooms are all safe to eat so I would imagine that even the toilet shrooms are fine.

      • @SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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        It’s not an attack, but I will never understand how mushrooms can be appealing to people. I will never be able to grasp it. To me, mushrooms are grotesque and the desire I see in people to eat them is the equivalent of craving spoiled food. The flavor is not enough to counter the texture triggering my gag reflex.

        Yeah, yeah. We all have different tastes and stuff. It’s just a hard thing to wrap my head around.

        • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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          131 year ago

          How do you feel about sauerkraut, kimchi, sour cream, cheese, yogurt, Worcestershire sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce, tofu, tempeh, beer, wine, or dry aged meats?

        • Sippy Cup
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          101 year ago

          As far as kinda gross foods go I’d put mushrooms pretty far down the list. People eat crazy shit all the time. Once you clean em off there’s really nothing wrong with them.

          Also most of the food you eat grows in actual shit.

        • Obinice
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          101 year ago

          Fungus in general is incredibly alien. It’s not a plant, it’s not an animal, it’s… something outside of our traditional understanding.

          Quite reasonable to be put off them, I love eating mushrooms but they’re… creepy…

          • @sternail@lemmy.world
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            I mean they are definitely inside our understandig. They‘re just not animals or plants, but fungi. With all the diversity we have on earth it probably make sense that we have organisms that aren‘t classified as neither animals or plants.

            • @candybrie@lemmy.world
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              And it’s not like we don’t love other fungus. Any yeasty bread contains fungus (yeasty breads include most nonquick beads or flat breads and like cinnamon rolls or pizza crust).

        • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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          Same. It’s just fucking bizarre. Having said that, living by eating the corpses of other animals is also insanity, only to a smaller degree.

        • Lev_Astov
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          I felt the same until some point in high school when I realized all food ultimately grows from recycled rot, so I decided to try liking mushrooms. It was a lot easier to overcome the texture of those than of raw tomato or onion and opened up a whole new world of umami flavor. Just wash them and cook them; there’s no understanding the people eating them raw…

      • @inconel@lemmy.ca
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        91 year ago

        Some mushrooms can be poisonous after 24h, just in case. angel wing mushroom shows no digestive symptoms but encephalopathy after 2 day to 1 month of latent period. The mushroom was known to be edible for a long time. Were it not for full screening for encephalopathy cases (enforced due to SARS spread back in 2004), it could’ve remain “edible” still now.

    • Track_ShovelOP
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      171 year ago

      Most certainly not. Fungi/plants take up and bioaccumulate compounds.

  • Zloubida
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    241 year ago

    Oyster mushrooms are one of the few known carnivorous mushrooms. They’re cool (and edible).