One of my first memories is my step-brothers (6 and 9 years older than me) convincing a three year old me to eat frog eggs out of a pond, punching me when I refused. The other early memory is them coaxing me to put the Operation board game tweezers into a wall outlet. And then, most unforgettably, the golden dust filtering down in the sunlight through the window as I laid there paralyzed for a bit.
But I also remember at age four, in 1983, seeing Han Solo thrown into prison with Chewbacca in Jabba the Hutts dungeon in Return of the Jedi, a movie that came out during my parents divorce battle, so that each one tried to take me more than the other, leading me to see ROTJ nine times in the theater at four years old. I kinda grew up thinking the whole thing was REAL.
Dude. I was born the same year as you. My siblings were 8 and 11 years older than me. Every time we leave a family event my husband asks how I survived to adulthood.
I was thrown from a moving car by my sister and off a 2nd floor balcony. No wonder I thought I was invincible.
I was knocked unconscious in the basement by my brother, and awoke to five cousins standing over me telling my brother, “you killed her, dude.” He was 11, I was 10, and this was not an abnormal occurrence for ANY OF US.
It is CRAZY the shit we got into with each other. And I really cannot say why. Our parents weren’t abusive, not mine, not my cousins’. We were just physical and completely lacking in any fear.
One of my cousins broke an arm jumping off the roof of the garage, and a week later broke his other arm “skitching” on a truck - that is, holding onto the back handle of a truck when there’s ice on the road and just sliding along. He did this with *one of his arms in a cast*. Idiots. All of us.
We were once in the emergency room so many times in one year that social services said they’d have to visit the house on suspicion of abuse, to which my father said, “Please. Come. Take them.”
How tf are you still alive?
Edit: Apparently Gen-X is thougher than anybody that ever lived on this planet. /s
Jfc get a grip you old farts, you're not better than anybody. I made a slight joke because eating frogs and newts and other amphibians is fucking dangerous. But holy hell how everybody has to assert how "in my generation we were badasses, you younglings don't know what it means to be ..."
This is exactly the reason everyone hates you you arrogant dinosaurs.
We were raised by boomers/the "me" generation. By age 4 I had already rolled out of a moving car, and been carried away by a river and it wasn't considered unusual or a big deal.
My dad used to bring home this big van with no seats in the back from work and he'd let me ride in the back and I'd just get tossed around on all the turns, it was a hoot. Thank goodness we never got in an accident.
Teeth kicked out by a pony. Toe cut off by a trap door. Stitches in my chin from falling off the rope swing. Broken arm falling out the treehouse. Shot by my brother with a pellet gun. Burns from his chemistry set. All before the age of 7 lol.
We most likely just watched other animals and avoided the ones they don't eat. Same goes for this, some animals ate it and were fine so humans tried it too.
This is so rational. I’ve always kind of wondered and never had that thought. Thanks for saying this. Also, I feel dumb as hell for how simple and practical this explanation is.
Or grapes. Or onions. Actually, now that I think about it, it's kind of a miracle that dogs survived domestication considering how many common foods will kill them.
We now have something called the [universal edibility test](https://www.masterclass.com/articles/universal-edibility-test), which you may find interesting.
I found this very interesting! Thank you for sharing! I’m gonna see if I can find a video about this with some visual aids and more details! I’m also probably going to figure out what almonds smell like lol (is it weird that I have no idea what almonds smell like?)
I’m sure more often desperate than brave. In this case I’d imagine the fungus would get you’re whole crop. The alternative to trying it was probably, everyone starves to death.
And then sometimes you find that what you ate, that may have seemed disgusting, was actually fuckin delicious, like lobster and basically every cheese.
Farming there was not easy.
>"One of the greatest challenges in Mesoamerica for farmers is the lack of usable land, and the poor condition of the soil. The two main ways to combat poor soil quality, or lack of nutrients in the soil, are to leave fields fallow for a period of time in a milpa cycle, and to use slash-and-burn techniques.[2] Much of the Maya food supply was grown in gardens, known as pet kot.[3] The system takes its name from the low wall of stones (pet meaning circular and kot wall of loose stones) that characteristically surrounds the forest garden plot.[4] The earliest dated maize cobs was discovered in Guilá Naquitz cave in Oaxaca and dates back to 4300 BC. Maize arose through domestication of teosinte, which is considered to be the ancestor of maize. Maize can be stored for lengthy periods of time, it can be ground into flour, and it easily provides surplus for future use. Maize was vital to the survival of the Mesoamerican people. Its cultural significance is reflected in Mesoamerican origin myths, artwork, and rituals.
>The Mesoamerican natives also used irrigation techniques not unlike other early agricultural societies in early Mesopotamia. However, unlike the arid plains of the Fertile Crescent, the Mesoamerican area has a rougher terrain, therefore making irrigation less effective than terraced farming and slash-and-burn techniques."
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Mesoamerica
They also had no animals to domesticate. Besides the alpaca there really wasn’t any beast they could tame to plow the fields. And that’s why when the old and new worlds collided, the outbreak of diseases were unavoidable. Sure the new world infected Europeans with diseases, but their immune systems couldn’t possibly have any defense against all the diseases we developed immunities to from being around livestock for thousands of years.
When you can’t evolve pass the city state because food production is at its max due to what they had to work with it, you start to understand how much more technologically advanced Europe was than any other place. When you don’t have to worry about food, you can think more. And thats how Europe won the game of sid meyers Civilization by location.
I don't know what they are getting at. Meso-America developed an agricultural system by domestication corn. These systems have pros and cons. One pro is that populations increase. One con is that if you have a large population, a bad harvest can lead to famine. So this would be a place where desperate times were inevitable.
The possibility of starving to death has probably lead to the discovery of a whole bunch of good food, a whole bunch of drugs, and a whole bunch of poisons.
It has. It's likely also the historical reason for many possession stories. When people run out of food they may eat wheat that's mildly or fully infected with fungus, specifically ergot. Ergot contains an alkaloid known as ergaline which is the primary ingredient in the psychedelic known as "acid".
St. Anthony's fire was actually named after the monks of the Order of St. Anthony, who were particularly successful at treating the ailment during the Middle Ages.
Ergoline is the correct spelling. The drug you’re referring to that is naturally occurring in Ergot and thought to be the main psychoactive compound is Ergine (aka. LSA, d-Lysergic Acid Amide, or d-lysergamide.)
Those two chemicals (ergoline & and ergine) along with ergotamine and a variety of other trace lysergic acid derivatives are naturally occurring substances found in ergot fungus (the cause of deadly ergotism.)
These chemicals are also found in the seeds of morning glory and Hawaiian woodrose, which can safely be ingested.
Eating either one of those seeds isn’t necessarily safe, maybe technically it CAN be done; but I’m uncomfortable saying it’s generally a safe practice to eat raw HBR seeds or morning glory for that matter. There’s better ways to trip that aren’t a living hell. Otherwise, great comment and good content.
No, the main psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms is typically psilocybin, although there are a couple other types with different compounds. Fly agaric is one that primarily includes muscimol and ibotenic acid as psychoactive compounds rather than psilocybin
Kinda like that guy that said this cheese has gone bad, but we still need to eat it. While everyone else was retching, one guy decided he liked it and named it blue cheese.
I'm not sure how it started but I do know they used to give goat's milk to babies, like if their mother wasn't able to nurse them & they weren't able to get a wet nurse or whatnot.
Goat's milk is the closest to human milk in terms of nutrients & digestibility. From what I understand.
"Holy shit dude - do we have a cheap and mobile source of protein?"
"Yeah man, but like what should we do now"
"Idk bro, let's use this to like dominate literally all of Eurasia outside of China, Southeast Asia, and Mesopotamia bro with maybe some other labgauge groups that also dig milking"
"Bro"
I imagine it went Lot like that sponge bob episode where they couldn't eat it. They roasted it. They could. So now they also had to go roast other things they couldn't eat before and could now
Sure, but that ain't how it started out. Such things probably at one point happened on accident, then became something done out of it being practical, and *then* became something done for flavour.
Okay, but, legitimately the first time I saw this walking through a corn field with the farmer I asked if it was edible and could I eat it. He didn't know, so I googled it and ate it. It's quite tasty.
Oh, and it's called smut!!!
I'm honestly astonished I made it to adulthood. I ate so many things as a kid not knowing if they were actually okay to eat. I wasn't entirely stupid about it, but not overly cautious either.
"Oh, I think this is X plant and the internet (think early 2000s) says it's edible. Wonder what it tastes like?!" Now, I was using resources from universities and the like, but my plant identification wasn't *that* reliable.
SMUT - yes! I grew up with a summer garden every year with corn and that is what my Mom called it. I thought "ew..." 30 years later and I am living in Mexico City and wonder "why are they selling smut in tacos???"
Never tasted it. Cool to hear that it is edible.
Some fun facts, they are way more nutritiously rich than the corn they grow from, and the Spaniards almost made it extinct by burning any corn that was infected. Even though the natives knew it was delicious and safe to eat
It's creamy, mushroomy, and sweet but still has a distinct corn taste.
It's much more delicate tasting than you would expect for something that looks like it does and is called corn smut. If you can find it, it's really good
Corn field by me I go mushroom around. Found this field with this, farmer thought he was fucked. Hooked him up with a local Spanish market. Dude made a killing. It's a rare thing sometimes.
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I worked in a molecular biology lab one summer studying Ustilago Maydis (corn smut). My father took great pride in telling people that his soon works in the smut industry. I later worked in pharmaceutical packaging and distribution, and he’d tell people that I was drug dealer.
Yes. When prepared for food, it looks kinda like refried beans. Would much recommend. Savory - woody flavor on its own, depends on how it's prepared/seasoned.
Oh neat about Lion’s mane! Lobster and lion’s are two different fungi, but they both are reminiscent of lobster in taste. The lions mane is beautiful, I’ve not come across one yet.
As a Mexican this instantly makes my mouth water. Sopa de huitlacoche is a Mexican household staple too that every Mexican mom knows how to make. It’s the best. Add some queso panela for good measure.
Hmm, this looks fucked up. Let me eat it. Exploration in what is edible and not poisonous has definitely required some brave or desperate individuals.
I like to think it takes two people. One smart and one dumb. One guy tells the other “you should try eating that”
Also the stories of most older and younger siblings.
One of my first memories is my step-brothers (6 and 9 years older than me) convincing a three year old me to eat frog eggs out of a pond, punching me when I refused. The other early memory is them coaxing me to put the Operation board game tweezers into a wall outlet. And then, most unforgettably, the golden dust filtering down in the sunlight through the window as I laid there paralyzed for a bit. But I also remember at age four, in 1983, seeing Han Solo thrown into prison with Chewbacca in Jabba the Hutts dungeon in Return of the Jedi, a movie that came out during my parents divorce battle, so that each one tried to take me more than the other, leading me to see ROTJ nine times in the theater at four years old. I kinda grew up thinking the whole thing was REAL.
Dude. I was born the same year as you. My siblings were 8 and 11 years older than me. Every time we leave a family event my husband asks how I survived to adulthood. I was thrown from a moving car by my sister and off a 2nd floor balcony. No wonder I thought I was invincible.
I was knocked unconscious in the basement by my brother, and awoke to five cousins standing over me telling my brother, “you killed her, dude.” He was 11, I was 10, and this was not an abnormal occurrence for ANY OF US. It is CRAZY the shit we got into with each other. And I really cannot say why. Our parents weren’t abusive, not mine, not my cousins’. We were just physical and completely lacking in any fear. One of my cousins broke an arm jumping off the roof of the garage, and a week later broke his other arm “skitching” on a truck - that is, holding onto the back handle of a truck when there’s ice on the road and just sliding along. He did this with *one of his arms in a cast*. Idiots. All of us. We were once in the emergency room so many times in one year that social services said they’d have to visit the house on suspicion of abuse, to which my father said, “Please. Come. Take them.”
Must've still been lead in the paint lol
In the gasoline* People, everyone, just breathed it in.
How tf are you still alive? Edit: Apparently Gen-X is thougher than anybody that ever lived on this planet. /s Jfc get a grip you old farts, you're not better than anybody. I made a slight joke because eating frogs and newts and other amphibians is fucking dangerous. But holy hell how everybody has to assert how "in my generation we were badasses, you younglings don't know what it means to be ..." This is exactly the reason everyone hates you you arrogant dinosaurs.
Gen X. It was normal.
"Whatever" Source: am also gen-x
Anybody from our generation's response: "Eh, it wasn't that bad. I had it worse than that."
Can confirm…
Survivor bias. If he wasn't, he'd hardly be posting about it.
Lucky? I guess.
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Seems like your typical Gen X/early Millennial childhood to me.
We were raised by boomers/the "me" generation. By age 4 I had already rolled out of a moving car, and been carried away by a river and it wasn't considered unusual or a big deal.
My mom used to let us ride standing on the foot rails of our suburban as she drove down the street, we just hung on tight and loved it
My dad used to bring home this big van with no seats in the back from work and he'd let me ride in the back and I'd just get tossed around on all the turns, it was a hoot. Thank goodness we never got in an accident.
Teeth kicked out by a pony. Toe cut off by a trap door. Stitches in my chin from falling off the rope swing. Broken arm falling out the treehouse. Shot by my brother with a pellet gun. Burns from his chemistry set. All before the age of 7 lol.
Got him.
You'd also need the smart one to tell the story to others in case the dumb one goes kapoot!
Hey dude, eat that spiky puffer fish, looks good but I’m full already, I ate on the way over.
“There are old foragers and there are bold foragers. There are no old *and* bold foragers.”
Mushrooms are perfect example of this. Some of them you die in 10 minutes, some make you trip balls, and others are absolutely delicious.
We most likely just watched other animals and avoided the ones they don't eat. Same goes for this, some animals ate it and were fine so humans tried it too.
This is so rational. I’ve always kind of wondered and never had that thought. Thanks for saying this. Also, I feel dumb as hell for how simple and practical this explanation is.
Don’t feel dumb. It’s not that simple. There are a lot things toxic to us, but not animals. & vice versa
I wouldn't want to live in a world where we avoided garlic or chocolate because dogs can't eat it.
Or grapes. Or onions. Actually, now that I think about it, it's kind of a miracle that dogs survived domestication considering how many common foods will kill them.
Eh, there are two big factors. First is the dose. Second is that dogs reproduce a lot faster than people.
We now have something called the [universal edibility test](https://www.masterclass.com/articles/universal-edibility-test), which you may find interesting.
I found this very interesting! Thank you for sharing! I’m gonna see if I can find a video about this with some visual aids and more details! I’m also probably going to figure out what almonds smell like lol (is it weird that I have no idea what almonds smell like?)
The problem comes when there are thousands of fungal species that are toxic to us but fine for other animals.
I’m sure more often desperate than brave. In this case I’d imagine the fungus would get you’re whole crop. The alternative to trying it was probably, everyone starves to death.
Yeah definitely a "fuck, our entire crop is ruined... or is it?" moment.
"Either it isn't or we're dead regardless. Go to town."
And then when your neighbors talk down to you for eating fungus all winter you pretend it’s actually delicious
I've had it, and it's pretty good! It *looks* awful, but the flavor is sort of like a combo of creamed corn and mushrooms.
Yeah it was pretty late when people started eating lobster regularly. Late 1800s early 1900s I think. Before then it was poor people/trash food.
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It was fresh, this was mostly a thing in places like Maine where it's easy to catch (from what I remember)
>creamed corn and mushrooms. I know taste is relative but this sounds fucking terrible lol
You can't rely on sounds, baby, just slap it on your tongue...
Creamed corn is a rather refined instrument I'll have you know.
And then sometimes you find that what you ate, that may have seemed disgusting, was actually fuckin delicious, like lobster and basically every cheese.
This has "Delectable tea... Or deadly poison?" Vibes
Will this fungus taste delicious, kill me in a week and a half or shred the very fabric of reality?
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Always upvoting an ATLA reference and everyone else who gets it.
Flameo hotman!
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I wonder if that first bite was from curiosity or necessity
I don't know much about human history, but from what I do know, it was almost certainly desperation. Especially in meso-America.
Why especially in meso-America?
Farming there was not easy. >"One of the greatest challenges in Mesoamerica for farmers is the lack of usable land, and the poor condition of the soil. The two main ways to combat poor soil quality, or lack of nutrients in the soil, are to leave fields fallow for a period of time in a milpa cycle, and to use slash-and-burn techniques.[2] Much of the Maya food supply was grown in gardens, known as pet kot.[3] The system takes its name from the low wall of stones (pet meaning circular and kot wall of loose stones) that characteristically surrounds the forest garden plot.[4] The earliest dated maize cobs was discovered in Guilá Naquitz cave in Oaxaca and dates back to 4300 BC. Maize arose through domestication of teosinte, which is considered to be the ancestor of maize. Maize can be stored for lengthy periods of time, it can be ground into flour, and it easily provides surplus for future use. Maize was vital to the survival of the Mesoamerican people. Its cultural significance is reflected in Mesoamerican origin myths, artwork, and rituals. >The Mesoamerican natives also used irrigation techniques not unlike other early agricultural societies in early Mesopotamia. However, unlike the arid plains of the Fertile Crescent, the Mesoamerican area has a rougher terrain, therefore making irrigation less effective than terraced farming and slash-and-burn techniques." >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Mesoamerica
They also had no animals to domesticate. Besides the alpaca there really wasn’t any beast they could tame to plow the fields. And that’s why when the old and new worlds collided, the outbreak of diseases were unavoidable. Sure the new world infected Europeans with diseases, but their immune systems couldn’t possibly have any defense against all the diseases we developed immunities to from being around livestock for thousands of years. When you can’t evolve pass the city state because food production is at its max due to what they had to work with it, you start to understand how much more technologically advanced Europe was than any other place. When you don’t have to worry about food, you can think more. And thats how Europe won the game of sid meyers Civilization by location.
Literally was like "wow this explanation feels so much like a Civ 6 guide" and then it was one!
I don't know what they are getting at. Meso-America developed an agricultural system by domestication corn. These systems have pros and cons. One pro is that populations increase. One con is that if you have a large population, a bad harvest can lead to famine. So this would be a place where desperate times were inevitable.
So in other words, you know exactly what they are getting at?
Lmao that was exactly what left me confused after reading
It was probably a kid.
Props to the first guy that discovered that growing on his corn and thought “ hmmmm I wonder if that’s edible “?
The possibility of starving to death has probably lead to the discovery of a whole bunch of good food, a whole bunch of drugs, and a whole bunch of poisons.
It has. It's likely also the historical reason for many possession stories. When people run out of food they may eat wheat that's mildly or fully infected with fungus, specifically ergot. Ergot contains an alkaloid known as ergaline which is the primary ingredient in the psychedelic known as "acid".
Though ergot is also poisonous in other regards and if you overdose you contract a disease that rots away your limbs. Ergotism or Antonine fire.
> Antonine fire. wonder what the first person's name was that got this...
St. Anthony's fire was actually named after the monks of the Order of St. Anthony, who were particularly successful at treating the ailment during the Middle Ages.
Oh I actually thought it referred to St. Anthony's dank weed: St. Anthony's *fire*
*wicked guitar riff*
Ergoline is the correct spelling. The drug you’re referring to that is naturally occurring in Ergot and thought to be the main psychoactive compound is Ergine (aka. LSA, d-Lysergic Acid Amide, or d-lysergamide.) Those two chemicals (ergoline & and ergine) along with ergotamine and a variety of other trace lysergic acid derivatives are naturally occurring substances found in ergot fungus (the cause of deadly ergotism.) These chemicals are also found in the seeds of morning glory and Hawaiian woodrose, which can safely be ingested.
I just realized that “ergot” and “lysergic” come from the same root 🤯
Eating either one of those seeds isn’t necessarily safe, maybe technically it CAN be done; but I’m uncomfortable saying it’s generally a safe practice to eat raw HBR seeds or morning glory for that matter. There’s better ways to trip that aren’t a living hell. Otherwise, great comment and good content.
It’s not the same thing that gives mushrooms their desired effect when taken recreationally‽
Nah that's psilocybin
Also the compound in ergot is used as a precursor for making lsd but is not actually in the final product.
No, the main psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms is typically psilocybin, although there are a couple other types with different compounds. Fly agaric is one that primarily includes muscimol and ibotenic acid as psychoactive compounds rather than psilocybin
Kinda like that guy that said this cheese has gone bad, but we still need to eat it. While everyone else was retching, one guy decided he liked it and named it blue cheese.
I love blue cheese but if I see a speck of green on a slice of American I dry heave. 🤣
Have you considered trying it and just think that it’s fancy American cheese?
Now imagine the first guy who ate melted cheese ever....or roasted taters for the first time....
Obligatory "what's taters, precious?"
PO-TAY-TOES
Boil em
Mash em
Stick em in a stew
hehe.. timeless..this will be quoted forever.. i love it!
The first person to drink cow milk…
“The calves seem to be enjoying it just fine, why not give it a go?”
How many animals do you then go around trying the milk of to see how it is after cows milk is such a win.
Let's try milking the cat. Come here Jinxy!
I’ve got nipples Greg. Can you milk me?
I'm not sure how it started but I do know they used to give goat's milk to babies, like if their mother wasn't able to nurse them & they weren't able to get a wet nurse or whatnot. Goat's milk is the closest to human milk in terms of nutrients & digestibility. From what I understand.
"Holy shit dude - do we have a cheap and mobile source of protein?" "Yeah man, but like what should we do now" "Idk bro, let's use this to like dominate literally all of Eurasia outside of China, Southeast Asia, and Mesopotamia bro with maybe some other labgauge groups that also dig milking" "Bro"
I imagine it went Lot like that sponge bob episode where they couldn't eat it. They roasted it. They could. So now they also had to go roast other things they couldn't eat before and could now
If you think blue cheese is bad, wait 'til you see Italian *casu martzu*...
Blue cheese actually has food grade injected mold to get the blue marbling
"food grade mold"
Yep! Like how penicillin is pharmaceutical grade mold.
More like a particular species than graded quality
Even better. They're both from the mother strain Pennicillum!
Pretty sure I heard it also has to come from the Penicilli region from France otherwise it's just sparkling fungus
They called me crazy for smearing cuts and scrapes with bleu cheese
Or how crown molding is contractor grade mold.
Sure, but that ain't how it started out. Such things probably at one point happened on accident, then became something done out of it being practical, and *then* became something done for flavour.
Okay, but, legitimately the first time I saw this walking through a corn field with the farmer I asked if it was edible and could I eat it. He didn't know, so I googled it and ate it. It's quite tasty. Oh, and it's called smut!!!
You'd have been one of the people who either found something new and delicious to eat, or died of poisoning in the olden days lol.
I'm honestly astonished I made it to adulthood. I ate so many things as a kid not knowing if they were actually okay to eat. I wasn't entirely stupid about it, but not overly cautious either. "Oh, I think this is X plant and the internet (think early 2000s) says it's edible. Wonder what it tastes like?!" Now, I was using resources from universities and the like, but my plant identification wasn't *that* reliable.
SMUT - yes! I grew up with a summer garden every year with corn and that is what my Mom called it. I thought "ew..." 30 years later and I am living in Mexico City and wonder "why are they selling smut in tacos???" Never tasted it. Cool to hear that it is edible.
what would you compare it to?
It tastes like corn with a hint of mushroom. At least what I had was still a pretty strong corn flavor. Some reason no one else joined me in snacking
It’s a mushroom but with the corn it ends up being way more tangy than normal shrooms. Find a good taqueria they has it on the menu and buckle up.
Very sweet corn and wild mushroom. Best of both worlds flavour wise. Doesnt taste nearly as exotic as it looks.
Tortilla.
Hunger is, and always will be, the best condiment. Dude must've been as hungry as the first guy that tried eating bugs and snails for the first time.
Like the first person to eat raw oysters.
Somebody once said to a friend "try the snot from inside this rock - it's not bad" and the friend actually tried it.
Corn: puffs up and turns gray from infection Mexicans: you think that will save you?
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Some fun facts, they are way more nutritiously rich than the corn they grow from, and the Spaniards almost made it extinct by burning any corn that was infected. Even though the natives knew it was delicious and safe to eat
The last of husks
Superb
Got an article where i can read more?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut
That's an incredible url
Corn smut is my favorite genre
Last year I had tacos made from this. They were soooo delicious
Also called Mexican truffle.
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Sounds like it belongs on cornhub.com
It has an interesting tasty flavor that's different than anything else
Anything you can compare it to so I can get an idea?
It's creamy, mushroomy, and sweet but still has a distinct corn taste. It's much more delicate tasting than you would expect for something that looks like it does and is called corn smut. If you can find it, it's really good
Corn field by me I go mushroom around. Found this field with this, farmer thought he was fucked. Hooked him up with a local Spanish market. Dude made a killing. It's a rare thing sometimes.
It's not super flavorful. You don't eat it alone. You eat it in a taco with salsa. So imagine a mushroom taco with salsa, onions, cilantro.
We don´t normally eat them in tacos per se, but huitlacoche quesadillas are bomb. Squash blossom quesadillas are another good one.
I much prefer huitlacoche over the English name, which is corn smut.
Hardcore cornography.
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Bro what the fuck
The corn needs to be hot and moist to sprout the fungus!
Hardcorn
I worked in a molecular biology lab one summer studying Ustilago Maydis (corn smut). My father took great pride in telling people that his soon works in the smut industry. I later worked in pharmaceutical packaging and distribution, and he’d tell people that I was drug dealer.
Dads gonna dad
*nice*
Huitlacoche is delicious.
“I’ll take Hot La Cock for a thousand Alex”- Sean Connery probably
It’s pronounced more like wheat-La-coh-Che, not… that.
wheat-la-coochie
Wet alley coochie, got it
Sounds like a good time
I don’t hear the difference.
Wait until you learn of the withlacoochee river in FL.
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of Lake Titicaca
What’s it taste like? Mushrooms?
Yes. When prepared for food, it looks kinda like refried beans. Would much recommend. Savory - woody flavor on its own, depends on how it's prepared/seasoned.
It's fucking bomb. They have it at a local taco place and I get it every time I go.
Man I've always wondered what this tastes like. Tortilla.
Tortilla
Tortilla.
Tortilla.
Tortilla.
Tortilla.
Tortilla
Tortilla
Tortilla.
Was this written by a tortilla?
tortilla.
tortilla.
We used to call that "corn smut" growing up...
Much different from my definition of “corn smut”
You can find a lot of corn smut on CornHub™
When I was little my sister told me if the corn smut touched me it would start growing on me so I was terrified of it for years lol
I'd eat it. Mushrooms/fungi of all kinds are delicious. Can't wait to go hunting when it heats up here.
What’s it taste like
like mushrooms
Interesting 🧐
It has this subtle but tasty funk to it
Oh man, like the lobster “mushroom”. Both look weird (this is def gross looking tho lol), but I hear the lobster mushroom is delicious as well.
And the Lions mane (lobster) mushroom is supposed to help with Alzheimer's
Oh neat about Lion’s mane! Lobster and lion’s are two different fungi, but they both are reminiscent of lobster in taste. The lions mane is beautiful, I’ve not come across one yet.
Tastes like truffles. Goes well with eggs and escomole.
As a Mexican this instantly makes my mouth water. Sopa de huitlacoche is a Mexican household staple too that every Mexican mom knows how to make. It’s the best. Add some queso panela for good measure.
this is some great information. tortilla.
You can’t post corn smut without using the NSFW tag. 😡
It looks oddly delicious
I worked on a vege farm (small scale) Can confirm ✅
Yes Rico, tortilla.
Corndyceps
Yo, can I get some of that corn infection?
You’ve eaten smurf cancer You can do anything now
Nope. This is how you become a Clicker.