Guess what's for breakfast.

[Courier]

Mum used to fry them and add cream to the pan. Never see them these days no idea why.

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Fried field mushroom in a white sauce on toast with plenty of white pepper, favourite teatime snack second only to cold tripe with vinegar and white pepper.

 

[Cowmansam]

Cold tripe ergh

 

[Princess Pooper]

The red spotty are fly agaric they are poisonous to all, but not in the same league as the deathcap ie it probably will take a whole one to kill you. They usedto boil them to makea fly spray hence the name.
I was alwaystold never to touch anything with white gills or you don't definitely recognise.
Anybody made sick by a field mushrooms has probably eaten a yellow stainer whicnly affects some, me included

yup, I think I've had a yellow stainer for breakfast before

 

[jendan]

yup, I think I've had a yellow stainer for breakfast before

Why do they call them yellow stainers? or is that what they do to your underclothes?

 

[yellowbelly]

We've never had as many mushrooms and they're growing in fields I've never seen them in before. I haven't tried any because I'm not sure what's safe and what isn't. Is there an easy way to tell? We seem to have 3 types.

Here's one from today - it's defo not going on the menu...

...from under the hedge......

...and close white gills...

 

[Cowmansam]

Yer looks bad that

 

[Oliveau]

Why do they call them yellow stainers? or is that what they do to your underclothes?

When you cut the stem it turns yellow. Also beware of anything where the cap turns yellow if brushed with the fingers.
Parasols are lovely mushroom, Ink-caps are fine when young, but you may have a reaction if eaten with alcohol

 

[Mr Mackay]

Some types of mushroom grow in circles because they are the fruiting growths of the fungal body in the soil that sends them up, and the fungal body expands annually in all directions, but dies in the centre, thus creating a ring over time. The ring diameter gets larger every year, and the size tells you how old the fungal body is.

Fairy Rings

 

[Mr Mackay]

Here's one from today - it's defo not going on the menu...

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...from under the hedge......
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...and close white gills...
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Shaggy Parasol
Our neighbours field had Horse Mushrooms on it 30 yrs ago.
I recall fetching one that was bigger than the frying pan almost - very dark gills ,yum yum.
My wife has stomach cramps terribly if she gets so much as a taste of field mshrooms but is ok with cultivated ones

 

[Old Boar]

I am quite shocked that you dont seem to know they are caused by fairies dancing.
Any human who enters a fairy ring will be forced to dance with the creatures, unable to stop until they go mad or perish of exhaustion. According to Welsh legend the pace of the fairy world differs from that of the human one; a person could dance for minutes in a fairy ring only to discover that it has been days or weeks in the human one. And if one manages to make it back into the human realm, the shock could easily kill them.

If you live in Northumberland you must be especially careful. A Northumberland tradition states that in order to investigate a fairy ring, one must run around it nine times under the full moon. If one were to accidentally add a tenth circle, “evil would befall the runner.”

Saying that, I am quite jealous. All I get are the poisonous ones!

 

[JSmith]

We get quite a few mushrooms, last year was a good year here, had them where I’d never seen them before! Don’t know if the dry weather helped them or ??? Don’t get them in circles though, the ones I’ve seen in circles here have been the none edible little discoloured things, I wouldn’t eat them any way ??

 

[Gordy1]

I was told years ago you get them where stallions have been in the field……….

 

[JSmith]

I was told years ago you get them where stallions have been in the field……….

I was told that, an didn’t they used to use a lot of horse muck for growing them?

 

[hendrebc]

I ploughed a field for turnips years ago when the wife still worked in a pub at weekends. This field was white with mushrooms I've never seen so many before or since. Of course when the then future Mrs hendrebc was working in the pub it would be rude not to go in for a pint or 6 and see her wouldn't it.
I knew someone there had been asking me about mushrooms not long before so I knew he would appreciate some. No shortage of them so I filled an empty seed sack with mushrooms and took them with me to the pub for him. I got caught by future wife collecting glasses outside on my way in 'wtf are you doing with that you f**king weirdo you can't bring that in here who wants mushrooms at pub take them home you f**king bellend' or something like that. Of course I ignored her.
Someone heard I had some field mushrooms and I barely got through the door and had a crowd round asking for some so I handed them all out they were very popular I don't know how many times I heard someone say they are so much better than what you can buy. They were getting shoved in handbags and coat pockets and some went home early with them.
Drank for free that night

 

[Cowmansam]

Brother was managing a fancy restaurant for a couple years got a few free meals for me an the Mrs out off bags of field mushrooms they was charging 15 odd quid for about 5 as a starter with a bit of cream handpicked wild mushrooms and all that in the menu daft buggers to pay that for about 10 pence worth

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Common to see them in burnt off direct drilled fields

Yep, they reproduce a lot harder when under a wee bit of stress (same as us, and everything else)
I buggered our field mushroom crop by leaving the grass longer for a season, but there are all sorts of weird and wonderful ones out there now.

(Even the ones that take you places, and have you questioning the meaning of life at 4.15am)

Hopefully a bit shorter grass this year will bring the rings back into fruiting as I do object to buying them (and seeing them go bad in the fridge)

 

[hendrebc]

Today's haul

was

 

[smcapstick]

I love field mushrooms. It the frying pan with butter and ground salt - fabulous!

 

[Av Gorritt]

I was told years ago you get them where stallions have been in the field……….

My grandad always reckoned it was pregnant mares ! A few years back , after a very dry season , we had an absolute overload of field mushrooms . Our lads went out each day with buckets on their motorbikes and loaded up . Never saw them before , and never seen them since . So I'm still no wiser as to how they occur - or don't . !