We see lots of these in Derbyshire but don't plan to try the reindeer dodge. I assume Santa Claus hasn't tried it either, but who knows? Must be some reason why he climbs down chimneys.
The reindeer dodge is actually a brilliant way of smuggling drugs. Providing you've got your paperwork in order for transporting livestock, they can't touch you for it.
I once (in teenage years) nibbled a small piece of one - it was disgusting, but did have a slightly lifting effect. My friend consumed a little bit more and was violently sick. Not advisable! But it's alleged to be the mushroom with the caterpillar on it, in Alice in Wonderland, the one that made her change height (in her mind?)
Ed - good point, I believe it was the mushroom in Alice, or maybe that's the movie version. I imagine Victorians knew all about them though. It sounds as if your friend was lucky, although I think you have to consume a fair amount for it to be fatal.
A chum nearly persuaded me to join him in a restaurant specialising in fungi once, I said 'No' when he said that there was a mushroom, which waited forty-eight hours then destroyed your liver completely! I prefer to do it slowly until I'm around 95...
I've seen these chaps in The Pinetum as well as normal field mushrooms whch we'd take home after giving the red chaps a very wide berth...
Scrobs - yes, death caps and destroying angels will wreck your liver although a restaurant specialising in fungi probably uses commercially grown varieties. But you never know.
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The reindeer dodge is actually a brilliant way of smuggling drugs. Providing you've got your paperwork in order for transporting livestock, they can't touch you for it.
I once (in teenage years) nibbled a small piece of one - it was disgusting, but did have a slightly lifting effect. My friend consumed a little bit more and was violently sick. Not advisable!
But it's alleged to be the mushroom with the caterpillar on it, in Alice in Wonderland, the one that made her change height (in her mind?)
Sam - I wonder if that's what Santa gets up to?
Ed - good point, I believe it was the mushroom in Alice, or maybe that's the movie version. I imagine Victorians knew all about them though. It sounds as if your friend was lucky, although I think you have to consume a fair amount for it to be fatal.
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, verse two...
A chum nearly persuaded me to join him in a restaurant specialising in fungi once, I said 'No' when he said that there was a mushroom, which waited forty-eight hours then destroyed your liver completely! I prefer to do it slowly until I'm around 95...
I've seen these chaps in The Pinetum as well as normal field mushrooms whch we'd take home after giving the red chaps a very wide berth...
Scrobs - yes, death caps and destroying angels will wreck your liver although a restaurant specialising in fungi probably uses commercially grown varieties. But you never know.
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