[TheForge] Ice in the Slack Tub, OT

[Steve Smith]

Mushrooms make an amazing variety of strange chemicals. I eat mushrooms 
when available (and hunt wild ones), but I don't eat them raw. Too much 
weird stuff.

Your korvasieni in particular, also known as Gyromitra Esculenta and the 
false morel, contains a poisonous compound called hydrazine which is 
basically rocket fuel. Weird.

Steve

Stephen Viola wrote:
> Here in Finland there is a deadly mushroom (korvasieni) that people
> eat. It is so toxic that you need to handle it with gloves.
> It needs to be boiled three times and then cooked for eating.. I've
> always wondered how they discovered that boiling it 3 times was
> enough. Was the forth person heating up the pot of leftovers lucky?
> Besides why put your life at risk just to eat fungus? blahhh! It would
> be safer to lick my toes!
> 
> Wombat
> 
> 
> On 12/12/05, Chris Kilpatrick <crimsonkil at lycos.com> wrote:
> 
>>Puffer fish have neurotoxins in them, cut the sack, which is in the visceral cavity, and a drop gets on the meat, the customer is dead before they can even taste the fish.  It is a delicacy because the meat also contains euphorics, or "happy drugs".  The japanese lost their national treasure comedian to puffer, or "fugu".  Since then, they have outlawed it preparation and serving.  However, for a chuck of yen, you can find underground fugu chefs.
>>
>>-Chris K.
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: frosty at customcpu.com
>>To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
>>Subject: Re: [TheForge] Ice in the Slack Tub, OT
>>Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:09:00 -0900
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>>
>>>That's an easy one Charles.
>>>
>>>The poisoning victim not only survived but enjoyed dinner. It probably took
>>>the poisoner now chef a few helpers to figure out how to do it again but
>>>that's just progress.
>>>
>>><grin>
>>>
>>>Frosty
>>>
>>>
>>>Quoting xlch58 at swbell.net:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Oyster's and other items don't perplex me, what does are culinary
>>>>items like puffer fish.   How many people were poisioned getting
>>>>the preparation process just right, and why would they persist?
>>>>Charles
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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