• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    While it very much tracks for assassination, it also seems to be a cultural thing to eat random mushrooms they find.

    I have several Russian and Ukrainian friends in the states, and they always act like they’re seriously considering harvesting mushrooms we find in the wild and eating them. Every damn time, and it’s like a 2 minute conversation every time of me convincing them it’d be foolish and to just buy from the store.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if it was real. But I’ll just assume Putin anyway.

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      1 year ago

      So I was going down a mushroom rabbit hole one day and found a Polish documentary that was very detailed regarding mushrooms. Apparently selling wild mushrooms on the side of the road is a billion dollar industry in Poland, as well as a seasonal cultural event.

      But this is just an assassination over the botched moon landing. When you fuck up publicly in Russia, you die publicly.

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      It’s not just east Europe some people in western Europe at the very least in Italy do so as well.

      Risotto with wild mushrooms is about a million times tastier than with Portobello type.

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        Sure but you can also buy chanterelles/porcini/oysters/morels etc in shops, it’s not only portobello type

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      People do that on the regular here in Iowa, granted its a very well known kind of mushroom that gets collected and eaten and not random Super Mario mushrooms.

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if it was real. But I’ll just assume Putin anyway.

      I’m sure there was a mushroom involved somehow. Perhaps tripped on a mushroom which caused him to fall, get his head caught in a noose and inadvertently pull the trigger on a shotgun that just happened to be sitting there. The resulting blast blew him out of a 4th story window.

      Mushroom poisoning…