Forget your 5 a day.

@great-big-stees said
The comment, “common sense” is the key, I think. I ascribe to the, “in moderation” theory but I know that people’s idea of moderation differs from mine. Just, as was mentioned, use common sense.👍😉

My father was an experienced mushroom forage but also used a book for the mushrooms he wasn’t familiar with and never shared any new types with our family until he’d tried and survived them himself. It’s not unheard of for people in Russia, Poland and Ukraine to get it wrong and end up poisoning their family. Survivors can suffer kidney damage.

@drewnogal said
My father was an experienced mushroom forage but also used a book for the mushrooms he wasn’t familiar with and never shared any new types with our family until he’d tried and survived them himself. It’s not unheard of for people in Russia, Poland and Ukraine to get it wrong and end up poisoning their family. Survivors can suffer kidney damage.

I’m not sure that I’d use myself as a guinea pig for any unknown food stuff. I think I’d eat something else until the “new” thing had been tried by an expert, and OK’d for human consumption.🤔👍😉

@great-big-stees said
I’m not sure that I’d use myself as a guinea pig for any unknown food stuff. I think I’d eat something else until the “new” thing had been tried by an expert, and OK’d for human consumption.🤔👍😉

He’d be 99% sure I think, having had to find his own food after escaping forced labour by the Soviet Union 🙂

@drewnogal said
He’d be 99% sure I think, having had to find his own food after escaping forced labour by the Soviet Union 🙂

Well then that shines a new light on his experimentation. I’d forgotten about that situation.😥

@great-big-stees said
Well then that shines a new light on his experimentation. I’d forgotten about that situation.😥

He’d say ‘no tears, sit down, I bring you my special vodka with Polish Spirytus and nice salami sandwich with horseradish sauce and we play Pontoon’ 🤣

@drewnogal said
He’d say ‘no tears, sit down, I bring you my special vodka with Polish Spirytus and nice salami sandwich with horseradish sauce and we play Pontoon’ 🤣

Hmmmm. Sounds like a picnic beside a lake.🤔

@drewnogal said
He’d say ‘no tears, sit down, I bring you my special vodka with Polish Spirytus and nice salami sandwich with horseradish sauce and we play Pontoon’ 🤣

Love Polish salami. Used to be an excellent Polish deli in Manchester when I was a student.

@relentless-red said
Love Polish salami. Used to be an excellent Polish deli in Manchester when I was a student.

Krakowska is lovely, made with a very lean pork 😋

@drewnogal said
Krakowska is lovely, made with a very lean pork 😋

I'll have to see what I can find in Liverpool. Happy memories. 😁

@relentless-red said
I'll have to see what I can find in Liverpool. Happy memories. 😁

Scouse stew is good 😀

@relentless-red said
I'll have to see what I can find in Liverpool. Happy memories. 😁

I used to buy cold faggots from the market for my lunch when I was an art student 🤢

@the-gravedigger said
Scouse stew is good 😀

Traditionally served with beetroot, but I love it with red cabbage.

Two or three years ago they started selling 'scouse pie' at Anfield. Decided it was sad face of commercialism, gimmick for tourists etc. Eventually persuaded to buy one though. Love it.

@drewnogal said
I used to buy cold faggots from the market for my lunch when I was an art student 🤢

Sounds like it was a chance to make a pointillistic pattern on the carpet. How open minded were your tutors??

@relentless-red said
Sounds like it was a chance to make a pointillistic pattern on the carpet. How open minded were your tutors??

Oh very much so, they even tolerated a student keeping a decomposing chicken carcass; a homage to Géricault‘s methods during his Raft of Medussa.

@drewnogal said
I used to buy cold faggots from the market for my lunch when I was an art student 🤢

Cold what? 😳