"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> People died from eating the wrong mushroom every summer when I was a
>> kid. You need to know what you're doing when you pick wild mushrooms
>> and I know nothing about them, so I pick mine at the grocery store.
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> Yes, it wasn't that long ago that a family became ill and one member died
> after eating mushrooms that they picked on the nature trail in my town.
> According to the paper it was a horrible death with liver failure etc. I
> pick mine from the grocery store too.

Only things I have ever picked wild to eat were dandelion greens and
berries. Would never pick mushrooms.