h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That reminds me of my brother-in-law's brother-in-law. Who wouldn't eat the fresh, home-grown vegetables my brother-in-law brought him from the country.

Because they, uh, had been 'in the dirt out there in the country'....

There are people like that in Pittsburgh. Seriously.

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Another former coworker of mine had some peculiar eating habits. He would not eat things like lettuce or tomatoes, but would eat potatoes, carrots, and various fruit and tree grown vegetables like avocados. He didn't like to talk about his food preferences, but after a while, I concluded that he had "boundary issues" in that he wouldn't eat anything that grew at the boundary between earth and sky.

He finally admitted that I was pretty much correct, but specifically he wouldn't eat anything that a dog might pee on.

It takes all kinds.

How does he know a dog wouldn't pee on carrots or potatoes? Not that I'm going to lose sleep until I get an answer.

Because the edible part of both is below the ground.

Yeah, yeah... it doesn't withstand close scrutiny, but it is an irrational fear to begin with.

If you chop up a mushroom, work it into a mass of bread dough, place it in a new freezer bag and store it in the crisper section of the refrigerator, the mushroom mycelium will continue growing.

(Leave out the yeast from the bread recipe.)

But that sounds as if it would entail some work.

My brother picks his own mushrooms in the forest. This is completely standard practice for eastern Europe but virtually unknown in Ireland.

He only eats himself what he picks himself, ever since the great "poisoning the in-laws" incident.

A well heeded phrase, "there are old shroomers and there are bold shroomers, but there are no old, bold shroomers."

Of course, I heard this in reference to a particular type of mushroom.

Mushrooming in Europe I can understand (barely). But not in the US.

Our Biology prof at uni cured us of the notion - a colleague of his, a mycologist, died along with his family from an ill-fated mushroom harvest.

If a mycologist can't do it, I refuse to try.

Yeah, but mycologist's better than yourcologist.

You're lucky to *have* a mycologist. I have to settle for an oncologist .

My brother-in-law has a lot of expertise in identifying mushrooms. He regularly picks them in the woods of New Hampshire, brings them to his cottage, and shares them with family.

When I was a kid, I loved the film _The Hotel New Hampshire_. Jodie Foster and Nastassja Kinski, Rob Lowe and Matthew Modine. Wallace Shawn!

Great cast.

And did you know that the youngest, Egg, was played by Seth green?

Wallace Shawn is a strange character. Doesn't he write plays when he's not busy being the Grand Nagus?

He famously cowrote _My Dinner with Andre_.

Oh, yeah, that's him.