Poisonous Mushrooms in Japan
Last week, a stall at a mushroom festival in Tokyo accidentally sold some poisonous mushrooms to a few customers. Most of the mushrooms were quickly returned, but one pack remained MIA, giving the media a chance to care the bejesus out of people by running lots of reports about the dangers of mushroom-eating.
Here ATV making use of some wonderfully frightening music and graphics:
They accompany an expert around a park in Saitama and search for different types of wild mushrooms. Even the expert seems to have some trouble telling apart edible and poisonous mushrooms. At one point, he even has to put some mushrooms into his mouth to verify that they are dangerous sulfur tuft mushrooms and not edible chestnut mushrooms.
The conclusion: don’t eat any wild mushrooms. Leave mushroom hunting to the pros.
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