This sexually arouses the Pole

This sexually arouses the Pole.

o kurwa

>think its a shroom kebab being held right in front of the camera
>open pic

i thought it was a really fucked up stingray or something

whoah shit, a huge parasol mushroom

unfortunately it is too old to be good as food, the younger specimens are preferred

I love these first parboiled and then pan-fried in butter

Yeah, the greatest Polish achievement so far is a large chunk of mold.
What a surprise.

ahh, Marcolepiota procera

dumb steve poster

nice

i dont get it

me neither

is there any connection between poles and mushrooms?

mushroom is poland's spirit animal

BIG

gib chantarelles

you made me hungry

those are my favorite too!

it's edible mushroom

in some countries eating mushroom other than mall purchased agaricus sp. is seen as sign of backwardness and peasant origins.

hand them over and nobody will be hurt

BROWN

mushrooms are not molds, they're the reproductive organs of higher fungi

your feta cheese, those are chunks of mold

ah, a connoisseur

Has mushroom hunting season started already in Poland? Here we're having a heat-wave at present, but I'm pretty sure the next strong rainfall/thunderstorm will bring up the delicacies of forests and pastures.

>t. Pole
Enjoy eating your fungus dick.

yep blueberries are almost over it's time for mushrooms

I see. Hunting mushrooms can be dangerous if you get the wrong ones.

There's not that big of a difference between molds and so called higher fungi if I remeber my scarce biology classes correctly.

that's why you train since childhood and read books about mushrooms

in all Polish houses there's the Bible and a mushroom guide

There's two kinds of people in this world: mycophiles and mycophobes.

Slavic peoples are huge mycophiles, and this is thoroughly ingrained in their culture.

The archetypical mycophobe is the Anglo. Every wild mushroom is thought to be poisonous, they will commonly crush any fly agaric that will pop up in their garden, and they tend to be paranoid about having merely touched a wild mushroom ("quick, wash your hands!" very common behaviour), totally superstitious medieval granny-tier as if just touching a deadly poisonous mushroom even would do anything.

The wrong ones are usually easy to tell.

They are also supposed to have the taste of heavens, according the ones who survived thanks to liver transplant.

I am Flemish.

Luigi's love mushrooms. Mämmis too

Well, I also grow my own mushrooms all the way from spores in petri dishes, under a homemade laminar flow hood with HEPA filter (pic related) providing a sterile environment, and I can tell you from painful experience there really is, hence we classify molds and yeasts as lower fungi.

mold = manlet mushrooms basically

but do you pick them yourself?
I'm honestly curious how many countries have the tradition of mushroom picking
when it was brought up on Erasmus, some people from certain western european states looked pretty revolted by the idea (fucking plebs)

>chantarelles

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

shroomlet

Countries that have forests, humidity and central-Europe tier weather have a tradition of picking up mushrooms.
The rest typically don't, although there are people interested in mushrooms everywhere.

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It really is a cultural thing. Anglos are the most mycophobe, followed by NW-Germanics with a protestant culture (Dutch, Northern Germans). The Celto-Germanics (France, Belgium, Southern Germans) are more mycophile, most mycophile by far being the Slavs.

Mushrooms were shunned in mycophobe countries before the white button mushrooms were commercially available. And those mushrooms were brown at first (plain Agaricus bisporus) but they did't sell well, because they looked too "natural". When they changed these by the albino variant it gave mycophobes the impression that they must have been cultivated and thus controlled against poisonous species etc.

Dude when I was in Finland your forest was full of top-tier mushrooms and nobody collected them...

The British Isles and NW Europe have plenty of forests, fields and humidity. It is not arid like eg. Portugal, mushrooms are everywhere.

White mushroom is king mushroom

wtf i love boland and other slavs now
How do you call this ? Here, the season started, and there're tons of these gribs just nearby Moscow

overrated

borowik

are you trying to get me killed?
i'm curious as fuck

But you can mistake it for bitter bolete, which will ruin any meal.

hřib borový
pine mushroom (?)

Olol

there are some crazy people who eat this shit and wake up without liver

russian propaganda!

Makes sense, borovik (aka grib from bor - pine forest) is the second name for it. But usually we call it belyj grib

We call it "Polish grib" or "Polish belyj (grib)"

...

The British Isles completely lack any signs of forests, they barely get bushes to grow.

NW europe consists of Germany, northern France and a couple of non-countries. Germany and even northern France has some mushroom-related traditions, Netherlands and Denmark are flatlands without forests and I don't know shit about belgium.

>muh mycophobe vs mycophile

The world isn't autistic like you. Before commercial button mushrooms, mushrooms were dangerous.

Should I remind you they literally grow on shit? Nowdays the shit are pasteurized, 100 years ago they could be dangerous themselves too. You had to rely on that drunkard Polish peasant to pick the non-deadly ones, hope it's not some weird mutation and hope that the shit weren't some cholera-ridden peasants shit..
The poles had too many mushrooms and too much time so they grew accustomed to them. The rest of the world didn't, because they didn't have to. Grow up and deal with it.

even our nobles liked to go mushroom hunting and mushrooms are a traditional part of Polish high cuisine, along with venison and berries

First off, mushrooms do not only grow in forests, they grow in pastures too.

Second, you can read more on the mycophile vs. mycophobe countries in the works of the American mycologist R. Gordon Wasson and his Russian wife Valentina Wasson.

And some species like Agaricus bisporus indeed grow on old dried cowshit or horseshit, the shit of a vegetarian animal who doesn't have an acidic stomach.

Mushrooms were only dangerous because you can pick the wrong ones. There are some species like Amanita virosa and albino variants of Amanita phalloides that are almost always deadly even today. These were commonly used to poison people, or misidentified, there are lots of famous cases through history from Claudius to Schobert and Fahrenheit.

Also, I am Flemish, not Polish, and I grow mushrooms myself from spores on malt extract agar, so I think I know a thing or two about sterilisation/pasteurisation and contamination with molds and bacteria.

O KURW-

>The British Isles completely lack any signs of forests, they barely get bushes to grow.

Plenty of mushrooms grow in open grasslands such as the giant puffball.

>Should I remind you they literally grow on shit?

Most mushrooms in fact won't grow on shit. The ones that do grow on shit and are visible to naked eye are actually poisonous if ingested along with alcohol as they contain alcoholdehydrogenase inhibitor.

>I grow mushrooms myself from spores on malt extract agar

For food or for "publish or perish"?

>The ones that do grow on shit and are visible to naked eye are actually poisonous if ingested along with alcohol as they contain alcoholdehydrogenase inhibitor.

Hygrocybe conica?
although visually appealing, they don't look a choice mushroom to eat

Also, we never seem to speak about the species that grow on wood debris (usually wood chips used to control weeds) in populated are.

Hypholoma capnoides is such a species, although they prefer conifer wood, it is easily distuingished from its poisonous but extremely bitter relative H. fasciculare, and tastes as good as canterelles.

I grow edibles and sometimes "recreationals" ;^)

I have a good microscope too, for identification purposes.

Neat, I'm about to eat some of those breaded and fried

I fucking love fresh, alpine mushrooms

only the ones I catch by myself though, purchased ones mostly taste like shit to me

Nice hobby you have.

Coolest thing I get to grow on agarose is crippled strain of common soil germ.

My microscope, up to 2000x using oil immersion
Note the bottle of Melzer reagent, had to order it from the UK, because one of its essential ingredients (chloral hydrate) is illegal to sell to the public here.

Top right is an USB camera, bottom right is an undisclosed sclerotia-forming species on "potato dextrose yeast extract agar".

haha, fellow biochemist?

I started out small, in a homemade glove box, and a contamination rate of 50% at least.

take a pic of your semen underneath the microscope lens

Can you undertake my chem exams for me?

I just can't into chemistry for shit

and dont get me started on biological chemistry

Haha, great minds think alike. A note has been sticked above my bed: "zaad bekijken" so I won't forget it;^) I already made the necessary physiological water solution. Have to dilute my sperm 50x and watch at 400x or higher.

I'll be sure to post my results.

Sorry to hear that m8. I blame the lack of practical experiment, could it be that?

I mean, you will never forget what an exothermic reaction is when you experience one getting out of hand from nearby.

>be me
>be 15 yo
>be gifted with professional microscope
>watch my semen sells moving at the first night after

A-am I retarded?

>haha, fellow biochemist?

Guilty as charged

no, that's how science works

Great. Btw, Czechs have always had a noted tradition regarding mycology.

>Václav Melzer (26 August 1878 – 1 May 1968) was a Czech teacher and mycologist. He belonged to a group of mycologists at the beginning of the 20th century that came from the ranks of Czech teachers (which also included, among others, Jindřich Kučera, Rudolf Veselý, and František Tyttl).[1] A substantial part of his life was spent living and working in Domažlice. Melzer's scientific work was devoted mainly to Russula, in which he published the first Czech monograph of this basidiomycete genus.

I heard them say we've reached Morrowind.