99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death. The remaining 1% tastes good with butter.
Or when growing in cheese.
Cheese also tastes good with butter.
Not quiet
98.99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death, 1% tastes good with butter. The the remaining 0.01% is estimated to have saved over half a billion lives.
And 0.00001% makes me see and feel funny things
More of them do that, but only once.
Pretty sure the antibiotics also taste good with butter.
What doesn’t taste good with butter?
Kale, raw fresh fruit, sushi.
Plain yogurt, lettuce, candies.
It ain’t plain if it’s with butter
more butter
And then there are the few lucky people who die a whole lot faster if they take that .01%
Ah, so there are 3 options- discomfort, death, and nutrition. Therefore, every time you eat a fungus, you have a 1/3 chance of dying. Thanks for the info!
NotHowStatisticsWork
Yeah? Then successfully explain how statistics work, smart guy. But I warn you, there’s a 50% chance you’ll fail.
It’s actually 50% because it either kills you or is doesn’t. Those are the two options.
You both sound correct. No idea who to trust, so I guess there’s a 50:50 chance that it’s 50% or that it’s one in three.
True; some mold is actually medicine. Therefore you only have 1/4 chance of dying.
1/5, some are hallucinogens
Just as believing in a deity gives you a 50% chance of salvation.
Oh, you like math? Name all the numbers.
No one:
Everyone: adds a pointless “No one:” above perfectly valid memes
This one grinds my gears too because it doesn’t even make sense.
“No one said nothing” is a double negative. Shouldn’t it be
Everyone:
Or just
(awkward) silence
And on top of that, a pointless Twitter comment.
I swear, every meme nowadays is three levels of reaction deep.
But how will i drive engagement to my shitter page if i don’t slap my username on every meme I find?
POV: Someone added a useless “no one” to their meme
POV: you’re the other person watching someone else do the action being described
Some moulds are totally fine, see blue cheese. Some mycelium schlongs are dangerous, see death caps.
“Mycelium schlong”
Linguistic creativity at its best.
See also other soft cheeses like brie
You can also put mold on meat. Lot trickier, but the famous Hungarian salami Téliszalámi (Winter Salami) is done like that.
…is bread mold harmful to eat?
EDIT: Still have not gotten a wholly confirmed answer lol
Fuck, I remember Gumby. What happened to that guy?
For a costume event, I got a Gumby outfit and put a gladiator shirt over it. I don’t think anybody got it.
No. Just, why? Gumby’s whole thing is that he’s made of clay.
I dunno. I miss him, though… and his pony pal Pokey, too.
Maybe the blockheads finally got him.
If you keep eating it, you’ll have to change your name to ShartEatingBreakfast
Does it make your guts rumble, fr??
I’ve heard of people eating bread that had mold on it but not knowing it because the only visible mold was on the other side of the loaf, they had eaten it for a few days and had the shits
Depends on the species of mold, but enough of them are toxic that the general advice is to avoid all moldy bread.
SEB is a 32 year old woman, presenting to the emergency room…
Listen: I’ve never gotten sick from eating slightly moldy bread. Ever.
Scallions, however, sent me to the emergency room shitting blood (turns out it was an allergy or intolerance or some nonsense).
I ain’t one of those “Taco Bell gives me explosive diarrhea” nerds. That’s weak. 😤
Bread mold is not one universal thing, while certain molds may be more common, without doing involved identification you will not be able to determine the species and therefore safety of bread mold. Even if the majority of the time it is a safe species, you should not be knowingly risking it.
It’s as harmful as picking up a random bug and eating it.
Which means: you might die. Or you might not.
Trusting the internet to give you the answer here as the final defacto answer… Maybe not the best.
Sorry, my plethora of mycologist friends are non-existent.
I go to Lemmy to get crowd-sourced information from people’s personal experiences. From the looks of it, people are saying “yeah maybe don’t do that. Risky.” I’ll believe them! Amd the reasoning behind them seems sound, as well.
Better than asking bots on F×cebook or whatnot.
Cheese and yoghurt enter the chat.
laughs in alcohol
The Roquefort (French blue cheese) is made from the mold that grows on rye bread.
So even the moldy bread, in the right condition, can become a delicacy.
lactobacillus is everywhere. Truly the king of kings.
Yo, thank you to yogurt, sourdough, and various fermented beverages. Bless.
On typing this out, I’m suddenly concerned about this being offensive or blatantly false. I never applied critical thought to the story before, as I’m pretty sure I was told it as a relatively young, and more relevantly gullible, man.
Is it true that this mold played a role in the “witches ride broomsticks” stereotype?
edit: Removed redundant word.
The fungus you’re thinking of is likely ergot, because it shows up in pretty large volume in batches of rye.
In processing, it ends up as a dark purple/black dried up mass that assumes kinda a crescent shape. Mills will run a batch of rye through a color-sorter - a bunch of times consecutively - to reduce the amount of ergot in the batch before milling.
You can technically refine it into LSD, but if you screw up, you can kill people. (Morning Glories are the preferred method).
The number of 55-gallon drums of ergot I’ve disposed of, though… It’s difficult not to identify with Walter White and wonder… “what if?”
I mentioned in my other comment, but while I did say “this mold” in my initial inquiry, I was thinking more of the method of application than the particular substance.
Thanks for the answer, TIL! For what it’s worth, based on what I remember of the show, going the Walter White route is ill advised.
Iirc the psychoactive compound in ergot/morning glories is LSA, which is similar, but different from LSD. LSD is a refined version of LSA.
It sounds like a few different things got mashed together there. Ergot is a hallucinogenic fungus that grows on rye, and is speculated to be the cause of some of the witch panics. It’s not the same fungus found in Roquefort, but it is what they use to make LSD.
Witches flying is hypothesized to be entheogen use, since a common side effect is feelings of floating, flying, or otherwise ‘being high’.
Ah, I looked it up and accepted “rye bread” without actually reading the name of the fungus, so you’re probably right about that part.
The broomstick myth that I’ve heard does indeed involve substance abuse to achieve an altered state of mind. The broomstick specific part was because apparently some women would put the substance on the end of a broomstick and apply it, shall we say, internally, thinking that this would achieve greater (or perhaps faster) effect. I don’t know whether entheogen was the material in question.
As initially mentioned, I make no claim that this is true, only that I read it a long time ago and never really questioned it.
edit: Forgot to thank you for the clearly knowledgeable response!
I don’t know whether entheogen was the material in question.
En-theo-gen, where ‘theo’ is the same as ‘theology’, roughly means ‘to commune with god’, so it’s any psychoactive substance used religiously. It covers everything from the wine in christian communion to a witch’s psychoactive sybian, haha.
Forgot to thank you for the clearly knowledgeable response!
Any time!
“Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that give you explosive diarrhea?”
Whoa there… We eat mold too if they’re the right type and on the right things.
*Blu cheese has entered the chat*
Humans: 🤮
Human genitalia: 🍆💨👃🤤
Kombucha and sourdough bread have now entered the chat.
My babies! Also don’t forget kefir, my third child.
I prefer calling it flowers than genitallia
Some women also call it their flowers and yeah I go down on flowers. :finger-guns:
tomato tomato
Srsly? It’s pretty simple - some forms of mold are delicious and others aren’t.
Here’s another mystery to ponder: Why do people generally love having sex but hate doing housework that involves the same amount of effort? Have fun.
There’s housework that involves lying down while someone else puts in all the effort?
Ya it’s called affording a maid
Blue cheese would like a word.
“why is that we eat the fruit and not the tree?”
Cinnamon
Maple syrup
Why apple but not apple seed
i eat the apple seeds, coward
dies
the difference between eating mushrooms and eating mold is the difference between oral sex and vore
Wait am I supposed to just motion the mushroom in and out repeatedly then once it shrivels, the job is done?
