Missoula man dies from foraged morels the same week as Dave's Sushi outbreak

Peter Dayton was an experienced morel forager who cooked and ate the mushrooms often; so what made his final meal of them fatal?

[@nicks8026]

A “gastronomical issue” would be something like sending your steak back because it was not cooked to your liking. You meant “gastrointestinal.”

[@myblacklab7]

That's the media for ya - they don't even know the right words to use for what they're talking about, yet somehow still fool themselves into thinking they have a valid opinion on subjects that they clearly know nothing about.

[@diy5729]

Tweny-year olds with zero common sense or knowledge.......

[@Kimberley_Black_White_TV]

They don't teach spelling, vocabulary, grammar, cursive or basic English rules anymore. We are supposed to be okay with that in case it offends someone.

[@lourdesecheverria6209]

@@Kimberley_Black_White_TV "They don't teach" ...so what? We are responsible for educating ourselves after a certain age. Do not depend on the schools or you will be left ignorant with just barely the ability to read, with no spelling, or comprehension skills.

[@xnwn]

@@Kimberley_Black_White_TVstop fear mongering. you can thank the conservatives for our absolute lack of educational funding.

[@watsonspuzzle]

I can't even say how many pounds of morels I've foraged and eaten in my life. I think I've had enough, now.

[@sew_gal7340]

how can anyone even eat that stuff, it tastes like snot!

[@meatgravylard]

​@@sew_gal7340So you eat snot...

[@JuniorFarquar]

​@@sew_gal7340not at all. That's silly.

[@hellosunshine9915]

@@sew_gal7340I eat a lot of these as a child . They were battered and fried in butter till crispy. They were very good !

[@zaram131]

Same here!!

[@josphellihsilak4588]

Ive always wanted to learn enough to forage mushrooms, but stuff like this sets me back.

[@ElbowEyE]

Learn. Don't let a BS news story scare you. Educate yourself. All the years of eating wild mushrooms and this is the first I've heard this about morels. Read, you'll never read anything about what this lady says. I've never cooked a mushroom until it was shoe leather.

[@josphellihsilak4588]

@ElbowEyE this is actually the 3rd time I've heard this, and the other 2 were hikers that insisted long cook times. Then again, I've had morels in restaurants, and they weren't cooked to death.

[@aaronlange8756]

*Pharmaceuticals - They always come back...muhahahaha 😈

[@Ashen2437]

This is bullshit. I've eaten thousands of morels with no problems at all.

[@CharlesGoad-du1dm]

I've never heard of morels killing anyone before now.

[@erroneous6947]

90% of edible mushrooms have a deadly look alike. In morels the edible one is hollow the deadly one is solid in the center.

[@ranndomundead9112]

@@erroneous6947 if theyre raw or undercooked even the good ones can kill you. There was a huge problem in montana awhile back where like 50 people got violently sick, multiple ended up in ICU and 2 died because some restraunt importing morrels from china didnt cook them properly.

[@swhip897]

Eaten them all my life, saute in butter..yummy

[@digifomation]

​@@ranndomundead9112 also to be noted that they cultivate morels at the commercial level in china, they often have issue with the culture with bacterial contamination.

[@swhip897]

@@ranndomundead9112 but were any of the native morels responsible for deaths?

[@PalmBeachFlorida24]

My great uncle warned of this, he was from Kalispel Great Falls area. He also warned of the parasites in raw shellfish. Gut health is often overlooked, gut health regulates your entire health.

[@aeptacon]

Oooo

[@JuniorFarquar]

Actually it starts with oral health, but we're just a body built around a tube...entrance and exit.

[@amyahlquist3436]

Yep symbiotic relationship and what not as long as there is a balance.

[@Neverender3367]

Scientists now often refer to the gut as your first brain. It controls everything in your body, including your brain.

[@2-1inffwa97]

Kalispell and Great Falls are over 200 miles apart So he lived in one place before moving to the other ?

[@SLloyd-qb8kt]

I'm glad she's sharing her husband's story!!!

[@peg9508]

👍

[@albertawheat6832]

Why ?

[@joedirt1006]

@@albertawheat6832duh

[@albertawheat6832]

@@joedirt1006 It's tough when you don't know the answer, isn't it. ?

[@codyrhodes1344]

I might be stepping out of line in responding for the op, but the wife sharing her story helps prevent other tragedies and shows strength of character. Losing a spouse in a situation like this is extremely emotionally and spiritually draining, and to get in front of the media like this is courageous. She is taking her story of loss and rewriting into one of hope.

[@Crackerjuice75]

The fact that they were stored so long, may be the biggest factor

[@SandraWade666]

Right. Didn't it say he collected them in 2022?

[@grandam195]

Exactly. Where they dehydrated well in the first place? How were they stored and what temperature. Dehydration only slows down degradation and spoilage. I think if they are collected properly, dehydrated fully at the right temperature and stored well for less than the maximum, you are OK. Even store bought mushrooms would make you sick if you don't follow the rules for drying and storage

[@swbuckmaster]

Yup I've dried morels and found mold growing on them several months later.

[@MagerialPage]

Yes, my thought too. It could have been botulism.

[@LemonySnicket-EUC]

It's amazing how many people can have an opinion based on so little information.

[@storytimewithunclekumaran5004]

of the millions of people eating many morels I have ever heard of this .. I would be interested in what the toxicology report says... They both had a reaction so it was something .. But I am not sure we got all the info here.

[@mayorofrealville2273]

Exactly!!!

[@mayorofrealville2273]

@@storytimewithunclekumaran5004I read the report, these specific morels were from a China distributor. And they don’t know what toxic caused the death! Something isn’t right with this story!

[@storytimewithunclekumaran5004]

@@mayorofrealville2273 agreed

[@UnityAgainstJewishEvil]

@@mayorofrealville2273 You must be referring to the Dave’s Sushi outbreak with the Chinese morels?

[@robblaettler4589]

I'm not a wildlife expert but why is there no mention of the fake morel?

[@jeremyh9033]

False morels generally don't look that much like true morels. I don't know this person's experience level, but it's possible it wasn't brought up because they knew it wasn't the sort of mistake he would make. They're really not hard to tell apart if you know what you're looking for.

[@roboticunclephil]

i think it's just stock footage, editors don't know their morels

[@Look_What_You_Did]

I'm going with Morel's are not wildlife. You ameritards and your "education" system.

[@FTATF]

It's very unlikely an experienced morel picker made that mistake. I mean I knew the difference my first day, but it is possible. Especially if he had vision problems

[@daddy1571]

​@@FTATFAs somebody with vision issues I think you most likely hit the nail on the head.

[@marthajean50]

If someone this intelligent and well-versed in these things is so easily lost, I'm never eating wild mushrooms of any kind. I'm sure he's missed very much. 😔 Thank you for helping the rest of us understand the important safety issues involved.

[@ml.2770]

Maybe he never truely understood how important cooking morels thoroughly is. RIP. Morels are unbelievably delicious and of no danger when cooked.

[@marthajean50]

He was well experienced in wild mushroom foraging, so he would know, but he just must not have been careful enough a number of times. Stories like this happen every single year, and the people who are lost are never amateurs. They're always experienced wild mushroom hunters who have studied and eaten them for many years. If they can still mess up, I figure, then I would. I'll be happy enough picking up some shiitake and king trumpets at the nice safe grocery store. Nothing tastes so good that I could risk my life to taste it. I'm sure they'd give anything to have him back. Every mushroom they ever saw. 😥

[@ml.2770]

@@marthajean50 You should avoid them then.

[@marthajean50]

@@ml.2770 Like I said above.

[@grandma460]

@@ml.2770not sure I totally agree. Maybe you are right, but if you’re supposed to not drink alcohol with them, that concerns me…???

[@hotwtrmusic]

sent this to my dad who forages morels. thank you for the effort and time, and thanks to his family for making this public. i bet she is saving a life or two.

[@MyerShift7]

Hilarious

[@tianasixkiller4771]

Ate tons of morel over my life. So has my family for many generations. Not one of us ever got sick or died from eating them. So that leads me to inquire as to how he cooked them, stored them, or even if it was truly a morel.

[@panchopistola8298]

Yeah they aren’t telling us everything. That lady expert seems to be a bit of a whack job . Also ironically on Wikipedia the only mentioned time they made someone sick or got them killed was one time in Montana 50 something people got sick from the same sushi restaurant and two died apparently . But I’ve never heard of that outside of these instances. I just think it’s odd that both instances happened in Montana 🤣

[@gxlorp]

Well they _will_ : |

[@rd7726]

If you watched it, they said they weren't cooked long enough. A gamble to take for gross mushrooms if you ask me😂

[@craighurley8031]

Yet

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

When I was a teenager I relied on a friend who said a particular mushroom was safe. I almost died.

[@robertfrapples2472]

Magic.

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

@@robertfrapples2472 I wish

[@MatthewMS.]

I am you are OK.

[@MatthewMS.]

@@robertfrapples2472I ate a lot of magic mushrooms 🍄 once. It was intense.

[@terrapinflyer273]

Jesus. Glad you're still among the living!

[@dalblack8712]

Note to self. Don’t eat foraged mushrooms.

[@kimlarso]

He ate a batch from 2022 that he canned/stored👉it wasn’t the mushrooms that killed him but improper storing & heating👉Botulism

[@wormhole331]

​@@kimlarsoI'm sure he ate some between canning and the camping trip. Most probable is undercooked morels.

[@ypcomchic]

Toxicology report?? Not even mentioned.

[@sweetpeanmolly]

Right.

[@robertfrapples2472]

She poisoned him and then made this video to clear herself!

[@stevew2347]

Definitely check the value of his life insurance policy

[@strabe30]

Probably because there was nothing significant. I’m an autopsy technician for a living, they do tox reports on every person. If there was anything suspicious they would have mentioned it and or found different anatomical signs of anything suspicious. I don’t know every pathologist process,but I’m certain they would have gotten a tox report on him especially in a suspicious death like this.

[@sourpoison5681]

Because it is freaking propaganda...

[@Tairygreen]

Experience doesn’t mean s**t when you don’t prep the food properly. I’m sorry for your loss

[@u5bLue]

right? "added them to uncle bens" is not how you cook mushrooms.

[@Junitunes]

@@u5bLuewhy not?

[@LemonySnicket-EUC]

​@@u5bLuehe cooked them then added them.

[@jiveturkey365]

Is it racist they took the black guy off the packaging or is it racist to have a black guy as your logo? If your a Democrat you probably don't want any images of black people to be on YOUR food...

[@u5bLue]

@@Junitunes mushrooms, especially wild, have to be thoroughly cooked before consuming. There are some outliers, but that's the best rule. I'm talking like, browning them in oil in a pan or boiling them (ew) for a while before sautéing .

[@robbabcock_]

Truly tragic, and it only takes once with something as toxic as certain mushrooms. RIP, Mr. Dayton.

[@brendacollins345]

I’m 62 and don’t think I have ever had a morel, not even going to try!

[@peg9508]

😢RIP Condolences To All

[@JYoung-fl8fc]

It’s how the stored the mushrooms user error but yea very sad

[@Simon-talks]

mcdonalds, wendy's, cigarettes and mountain dew are so much better for you

[@antennawilde]

Morels are hardly toxic if you cook them properly. The false morel is, however. He might have had a few false morels in there, but most likely didn't cook them enough. Also, people who eat a lot of wild mushrooms over the course of a few days or weeks can build up toxins, this could have been the case with him + the under-cooking.

[@doneaton6704]

Pretty sad. Forage every year on Mt. Hood for morels, porcini, matsutake and chanterelles and never had a problem eating them. Likely that the morels were not cooked long enough. Or got a false morel in the batch possibly.

[@meatgravylard]

I spent many years in the Mt Hood area finding mushrooms. We had a spot that every year over many years produced big White Chanterelles. Across the road, down the road they were always yellow but almost solidly white in this one patch of forest. And two spots nearby you could count on the Lobster mushrooms to essentially jump in the bag there were so many. Oh, a single steep bank on the road to the white chanterelles always produced a flush of Kings.. One of the few things I miss about living there.

[@choccolocco]

June sounds quite late for morels, they’re usually gone by mid march here in Alabama, and often start in February.

[@user-zf3xb3qx8w]

@@choccolocco Strange, we collect right after the first real frost in BC, mushroom country.

[@choccolocco]

@@user-zf3xb3qx8w Morels?

[@thelasttaarakian]

@@choccolocco WHOA ITS ALMOST LIKE THE PNW AND ALABAMA ARE IN TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AREAS 😮😮😮

[@ziplockbaggies8707]

Back in 2002 me and 5 buddies went hiking in the area and ate them for dinner. Well, two weeks later I wake up in the hospital. I had died and was revived but then in a coma for two weeks. Had the strangest dreams and to this day I don’t eat any mushrooms, except for psilocybin

[@mountainmama7672]

You have to soak them overnight and cook them VERY WELL.

[@africkinamerican]

For future reference, IV Alpha-lipoic acid can help save your life in case of mushroom poisoning. Maybe a good idea to ask in advance if your local hospitals can give that.

[@pattysarver7003]

I say do a Netflix series you have a great start!

[@steveguse4481]

What were your dreams

[@UnityAgainstJewishEvil]

I’ve been in a coma too, the “dreams” are something else. When I woke up, I was hallucinating so heavily that it was hard to distinguish the exact moment I had awoken, especially because my dreams influenced my hallucinations.

[@GroundbreakGames]

I over consumed chanterelles over the course of two years and now can no longer them anymore due to severe stomach pain. I even tried a piece of pizza with a few (very well cooked) slices of mushroom on top about two years after realizing I couldn’t eat them anymore and still had the same painful reaction. There is much we don’t yet know about mushrooms as I had eaten them for many years prior to this without any problems.

[@John-xg2vj]

Looking at the rack of mushrooms at 0:36, there appears to be some false morels. Second row from the top on far right, and 4th row in the middle, the pointed shape that has a short top. I would NEVER pick those. Even that color is not consistent with true Morels.

[@starshine3588]

It doesn’t matter….true morels have to be cooked well and someone else said “for a long time” before they can be eaten. If you don’t cook a true morel properly you can get extremely sick and die. So “false” or “true” it doesn’t matter….the same thing will happen to you.

[@jmar8507]

Their "expert" didn't even pick up on that which is very odd.

[@M.Campbell]

The story said he brought "his home dried morels". If he dried them whole, instead of slicing them lengthwise, then he would have never picked up on the fact that he had a false morel, or more, in the batch. If the false ones were smallish he probably wouldn't have sliced them.

[@wildswan221]

Well spotted! I missed that

[@_mycotroph]

A lot of "false morel" species can be eaten when prepared the same as morels. Verpa genus has some choice edibles as well as gyomitra, they're most commonly consumed in eastern europe. As with all food, some special preparation is required. Take cassava; it is deadly toxic until prepared, but once done it is a sustainable food source for millions if not billions of people

[@cal4625]

It's interesting how the expert says there is so little know about these kinds of mushrooms considering people have been eating them for hundreds, if not thousands of years.

[@blueplasma5589]

Fake News example

[@_mycotroph]

She was mistaken, we know for absolute certain that hydrazines are the toxic compounds in morels

[@user-zf3xb3qx8w]

they're also not easilly confused, compared to some white gilled types that have edible kinds looking very close to them.

[@jstowell5]

​@user-zf3xb3qx8w Agreed! Morels, along with giant puffball, chicken (sulfur shelf) mushroom, and chanterelles are often called the "Foolproof Four" for their easy identification.

[@EminencePhront]

@@user-zf3xb3qx8wfunny enough there is a “false morel” that grows in Finland. They are even more poisonous than regular morels.

[@bryanpetersen1334]

Such a tragic incident, but I think everyone wants to be that active and vital when they are 69, that’s inspiring. He was LIVING way more than most folks 1/2 or 1/4 his age, sitting inside watching some screen instead of experiencing the real thing. All those he left behind and missing him will hopefully take comfort that he left this world doing something he loved, pedal to the metal. I Love mushrooms but I’m a scaredy cat as far as foraging, and I would never have considered morels as a dangerous variety.

[@believer2734]

That’s so sad. Prayers for Peter’s family & friends.

[@alro11]

so sorry for your loss😢-

[@maryjoschlechty7590]

Have eaten morels most of my life growing up in the Midwest ( Missouri ) and have always washed and cleaned them very well, then cooked till totally done, extra cleaning gets rid of those bugs and sand, but for the most part, yum yum

[@Chichilovee]

🤢🤢

[@nealdraper3751]

Soak in salt water overnight was what I was taught.

[@zaram131]

Same here! We live in rural Missouri and we have had city people trespass on our land to forage for morels because they are worth good money in the city.

[@leejanes9636]

70 dollars a lb in Ne Mo where I'm at

[@zaram131]

Wow

[@stickyfox]

My mom was an ER nurse and once on a ride-along she found a whole family dead around the dining and living room after a meal of foraged mushrooms. Morels were really popular in our area but we obviously got all of our mushrooms from the supermarket.

[@michaelbeard4883]

i have no idea what mushroom would kill a room full of people so fast that none of them would have called 911 for the symptoms they’d experience dying so fast

[@mtaylor7307]

​@@michaelbeard4883 party pooper

[@AxeAndAntler]

Mushrooms don’t kill people that quickly. The most deadly mushrooms take at least several hours to make you sick.

[@howard7689]

Death caps don't kill that way, it takes days of agony.

[@bastienjolin]

Right! That sounds odd and probably nothing to do with the mushrooms. There would be physical signs before death. This person must be a bot

[@anandrew6641]

Thanks for this informative update!

[@williamwaters4506]

He ate them for thirty years and this time he died? I wonder if some of the morels were false morel which he did not look at closely enough? The false morels look almost exactly like the edible ones, except for the insides. Morels have a hallow inside, the false morels have a cotton like fiber (mycelium) inside. Easy mistake to make but after thirty years this is odd. I feel badly for his family.

[@jeil5676]

Even then, the false morels contain hydrazine which is toxic but shouldnt kill people outright. It would probably have to be many false morels which doesnt seem right after 30 years experience. I think theres more to this story. Perhaps his dried morels got wet and were rotting and he got some kind of food poisoning, or there was another type of mushroom involved that was misidentified.

[@choccolocco]

They said he foraged them in June. I’m not sure about his locale, but that is pretty far into summer for any morels to be around here. I’m thinking he may have picked all false morels.

[@oscarvogel2140]

Don't false morels smell kind of mousey too? No one suspects the ben's rice.

[@williamwaters4506]

@@oscarvogel2140 Good point, the false morels do have an unpleasant smell. However, no everyones sense of smell is the same.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

My false ones are smooth inside with nothing, like an almost deflated balloon. They lack deep pores, its just folded and wrinkled.

[@susanjaeger9851]

They went bad in the jar. He straight up had food poisoning.

[@mikevee9145]

Yeah, the story says he foraged the mushrooms in 2022, they were likely rancid or starting to mold if they weren't properly dried and stored. I would also be curious to know where he found them, people of find morels in landscaped areas, public park trails, or clear-cut blocks that get sprayed with herbicide.

[@susanjaeger9851]

@@mikevee9145 💯

[@KentuckyFriedFixes]

I was thinking the same thing Susan. Seems like a storage issue. I've eaten lots of morels over the years without any issue, though they were all fresh as I never tried to store any. (thank goodness)

[@null_value89]

@@mikevee9145 herbicide is not going to cause someone to keel over and die like poisoning yourself with the wrong mushroom/mold will

[@davidretondo2871]

Maybe. They were old.😮😢

[@eugenefirebird8938]

Sorry to hear. God bless Peter and family.

[@toddallen7862]

Its kind of nice to hear about actual science on the news and not from some corporate stooge.

[@davidlaney2070]

Storage is the reason he died...collected mold and undercooked...

[@srezzy1326]

Thank you, I was thinking parasite but it never said other than carcinogens build up.

[@florachildressEarth2Flo]

I agree, canned wrong!

[@charmc4152]

​@@florachildressEarth2Flo They were dehydrated and stored in jars, not canned.

[@Cam-zu5js]

@@charmc4152 If he didn't package/store with desiccant there could have been enough moisture to facilitate pathogen growth.

[@charmc4152]

@@Cam-zu5js True. It's very unfortunate. At least the other man recovered.

[@zaram131]

We eat morels every year that we pick from our woods. We’ve never been sick. My dad soaks them in salt water and then breads and fries them very well.

[@robertcornelius3514]

Hmm. Maybe it was the Ben's rice.

[@BBQDad463]

Thank you for this video, and the vital information it contains.

[@b.g.tercero2351]

DAVE'S NOT HERE MAN

[@cydkriletich6538]

So sad. Thank you to Colleen for sharing her husband’s tragic story. I’m not familiar with wild mushrooms, so had no idea there was any possibility of morels being toxic. May your dear husband’s soul be resting in peace. It sounds as if he lived a full and active life. Condolences to Colleen.

[@dawnmichelle4403]

Thank you for the thorough report. Poor guy.

[@backtoobasics]

Thats heartbreaking. Rest in peace

[@Stoned_Silly]

That’s so scary! Here in northeast Alabama I don’t reckon morels are such a big thing but I know cooking mushrooms very well is very important. R.I.P. Peter

[@TattooedGranny]

You can die from dehydration too. The other gentleman recovered so It makes me wonder. This is a rare occurrence but should definitely be investigated. Always positively identify and cook wild mushrooms thoroughly. Very tragic story.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Scary. Thanks for educating us.

[@ffjsb]

Scary??? This is literally the ONLY person I've ever heard of dying from morels, and that's a big MAYBE...

[@katie7748]

​@@ffjsb SheepleGonnaSheeple🤷‍♀️

[@iunnox666]

It's bad reporting really, he didn't just die from the morels themselves. They were probably improperly stored leading to spoilage or he had some false morels in there. There looks to be a few in the photo they show at 0:36

[@Conradlovesjoy]

No one was educated here. Typical media fear mongers with their topical story of the week.

[@Hendoggy909]

There's a morel to the story

[@TheEmaile]

Had no idea. I love morels and only had the chance to cook them myself once-fried in butter, I think I had about 5 of them. My mom’s family grew up foraging and eating them so I’m surprised they never mentioned that they could be toxic when eaten undercooked.

[@MavetSomnus]

They really should specify what species of morels it was. This report feels very half baked

[@zardozmania]

just cook your morels really well. they're fine, and really tasty.

[@YolandaSmith-zs1rl]

I am so sorry. My condolences

[@LK-nb2cb]

I'm in my 30s and have eaten morels every spring since I was young, would pick them with my mom or grandparents. I don't know anymore who has died from eating morels (Western Canada)

[@stevemcgowen]

Here in the Czech Republic mushroom hunting is basically a sport and cultural phenomenon. Never heard of anyone drying from eating mushrooms here.

[@susancoddington6393]

Damn we ate morel mushrooms when we were younger the whole family would go out looking for them

[@Conradlovesjoy]

And you still can.

[@IM1deadMONEY]

Pretty sure some of those that he picked were false morels, and all may have been undercooked....

[@kimlarso]

Listen carefully 👉the mushrooms he ate were From 2022-canned in a jar & so most likely died from botulism from bad canning

[@caseymurphy244]

Born & raised here. Never ate one. Nerve will. And they grow behind my house. To much of a risk. Had an acquaintance ate a undercooked one. Ended up in ER then long term care. With brain and cardiac issues.

[@grandma460]

Horribly sad.

[@jupeter24]

wow. not worth the risk!

[@chrismay2298]

More nonsense from the terrified...

[@caseymurphy244]

@@chrismay2298 Sometimes it's better to be scared. Than Dead.

[@StonedMeadowOfDoom]

@@caseymurphy244 Sad way to live your life. You should never leave the house if you want to be logically consistent

[@jl535]

It doesn't sound like he reconstituted the dried mushrooms. They wouldn't cook thoroughly.

[@Mdeaccosta]

Instant rice.

[@campparkerjoe]

Excellent segment Powers. Nice work

[@soniaz1487]

Would stay clear of that type of mushroom. It's not worth it.

[@mariantreber8055]

No problem. ..I dislike mushrooms.

[@PatriciaKeel-ig9ni]

My aunt refuses to eat all mushrooms.

[@caiqueparrot5374]

​@PatriciaKeel-ig9ni Me too. The texture is gross. 🤮

[@tinknal6449]

Morels are one of the most easily recognized and safest mushrooms in the world. I am not convinced that they were the cause of death.

[@corey6393]

@@whatsup5791 Same here. My guess is there was some other fungus on the morels that caused this, or he had some false morels in the mix. Morels are delicious. Been eating them for many years without issue, but they don't get stored for long. Mostly eaten within days of picking.

[@isabellavalencia8026]

All mushrooms are edible....some only once.

[@Chichilovee]

There are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunters. But there are no old, bold mushroom hunters.

[@louloubell6586]

Very clever

[@markr.1984]

Death from eating morels is so rare you have a better chance of winning the Powerball than dying from morels. For one thing, the long-term storage attempt was not a great idea with morels and you have to cook them a bit. No worries with eating them ever if you eat them fresh and moderately cooked. They are not poisonous mushrooms!! Lots of people in here exaggerating. On our farm in Indiana when I was a kid we'd eat thousands of both the brown and yellow varieties. And we'd sell extras to local restaurants for mucho dinero. Go out and buy that lottery ticket, you ain't gonna win the big prize and you ain't gonna die from a morel. Gimme a break....

[@s7r49]

This year they seem to have higher levels of that toxin in some areas. Saw a post about someone getting pretty sick from slightly undercooked morels not that long ago too.

[@yougonnaeatthat9889]

I'm wondering if a certain injection may have played a role in this and other sensitivities to them since it seems to be increasing the last couple years. Poly glycol was the carrier bubble for their experiment and that in itself is a serious allergy for many. The dehydration maybe wasn't done properly as well since they both had issues. Crazy times! I know if I become allergic to morels I hope they take me out fiddleheads and morels are a spring ritual I couldn't do without.

[@s7r49]

@yougonnaeatthat9889 no it almost definitely did not. Gyrometra is the same way environmental changes impact toxin levels.

[@guaporeturns9472]

Pretty sure they ate false morels.. Verpa

[@s7r49]

@@guaporeturns9472 yeah its possible, they contain essentially jet fuel. Ive eaten them but some you have to cook well and others you have to boil into oblivion to make safe. false morels are actually really good but its always a little bit of a test of your nerves about whether you cooked them enough xD

[@runDATrun6]

I will never understand peoples obsession with eating mushrooms

[@SundayCookingRemix]

Why even take the chance??.

[@Adam-gm5tm]

Yea, it’s not like it’s ice cream or something that’s not good for us but worth the ‘risk’ lol!

[@SundayCookingRemix]

@@Adam-gm5tm exactly

[@corey6393]

Because they are healthy and delicious. Morels aren't really "taking a chance" either. They are quite possibly the safest wild mushroom available. There is more to this story. He didn't die from a simple morel mushroom.

[@_mycotroph]

​​@@corey6393 my best guess is that his jet boil was covered and was not offgassing the hydrazine compounds, but rather letting them accumulate on the lid and drip back into the boiling solution, which he then drank. So essentially he concentrated the toxins before consuming them

[@cole1710]

I'm from the midwest, we eat these mushrooms as a delicacy each spring..all my life. We always just fried them up fresh though and didn't try to preserve them. The story here is the method of consuming, not the mushroom itself.

[@choccolocco]

After looking well at that pic, it looks like he picked quite a few false morels. Impossible to tell for sure, but many of them look more like false morels than true ones.

[@winstonsuz]

I'm over 60 and been eating morels most of my life and always have a huge pan of fried morels on my birthday... fry them up and sit eating them like potato chips! My Dad when he was younger used to find bushel baskets of them but it's been a long time since you could find that many around here and well he's to old to hunt them now. I order mine from Morel Masters I just got my birthday order.... this is the first I ever heard of people dying from eating morel mushrooms.

[@rossryder944]

In my 60 years, I have never heard the word morel before. But if I heard there was some foragable mushrooms that were toxic unless you cook the crap out of them, I would simply avoid them. Undercooked pork is risky enough.

[@lindag1372]

Gastronomical issues?

[@patm3814]

Exactly !! Did she mean “ gastrointestinal “ ?.

[@flok.8317]

She did mean gastrointestinal...

[@dustyoldhat]

Good thing she’s pretty

[@teresamexico309]

Even I (nonnative English speaker) noticed that :)

[@ModularKnight]

Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating.

[@pat_in_va8605]

This is a story that everyone needs to share. The reason? There is a whole foraging thing going on. Do a check, and you will see all sorts of people posting videos, "tweets," and such on how you can forage morels for yourself. Not all are very informative; more of internet clickbait than safety conscious. You would be surprised which of your friends forages for things they don't know how to prepare.

[@user-yi6nb9sj9i]

No I won't. My friends have working brains .

[@stardust949]

There are "false morels" too----those, I am afraid of. Maybe a falsie or two got mixed in with the legit morels.

[@LL-bl8hd]

​@@stardust949 How do you spot a false one?

[@Potatabuds]

@@LL-bl8hd Morels have a hallow inside, the false morels have a cotton like fiber (mycelium) inside.

[@_mycotroph]

​@@Potatabuds false morels also include gyomitra species as well as verpa which you described. Best to just know a lot about mushrooms before picking and eating them

[@zyracripz]

😔🙏🏻💐🤍❤️very sad thank you for sharing and so sorry loss of loved one may he be rest in peace always god bless everyone 🙏🏻 ❤️

[@IgnatiusCheese]

Rest in Peace Peter Dayton, Lord have mercy! Look at the way he lived folks, the outdoors lifestyle gave him a rich full life

[@KLG777]

I'll get my mushrooms at the store thanks.

[@iklijkwelgekmetmijneigennaam]

Me too, absolutely not worth the risk.

[@maryhensley2597]

The last time my husband ate morel's he got deathly sick, he was up all night! He had eaten them many times previously and had no reaction, l ate them the same night as he and had no problem.

[@helenjackson8413]

@KLG777, That part!!

[@user-bg2oi4bz3p]

You will still have to store them at the proper temperature at all times and cook them and cook them some more.

[@Mike-mn8wy]

You can still get sick from mushrooms bought at the store..just a heads up..improper shipping.. insecticides..etc..mushrooms should always be cooked WELL..

[@Jollysjournal]

Unfortunately, lots of people die every year from food poisoning. My mother recently got sick after eating at El Nopal's and she went to the hospital for two days. She's ok now. You just never know.

[@turkey4957]

Right like every viewer of this video knows wtf you’re talking about with El Nopals, we don’t all live in your neighborhood

[@saudigold50]

@@turkey4957*Watch it*

[@Dakota-xi6cg]

You can get sick anywhere!

[@Jollysjournal]

@@Dakota-xi6cg That's true.

[@dustyoldhat]

Oh, El Nopal’s, thanks for letting us all know. Whatever that is

[@bonniewilliams9171]

Thank you for this information, its so sad a man died for us to learn it.

[@theearthauger]

That's terrible. I'm sorry for your loss. They have those morels where my son work's. My family ate them many years ago. But, my son hates mushrooms, he's the only one who wouldn't eat them. I told him not to tell anyone where they are growing. Thank you for sharing your story. 🇺🇸

[@Tonimaroni2BeKindToAnimals]

I hear about this way too often. Rip

[@nickjohnson5697]

You hear about morels liking people all the time? Sorry, I'm not buying it. They are as common as any other food around here, and I've never heard of it making people sick.

[@gorgo4910]

Really? I’ve never heard of anyone dying of eating morels until supposedly now.

[@davidpeightal4918]

Well, the last morels I ate were dried, uncooked. I actually found them near the North Platte near Sinclair, Wyoming. It’s been over a year ago now. Hopefully not the slow acting kind. But if so, at least they were really good.

[@Darknimbus3]

Did you dry them in one of those driers? If so the heat probably detoxified them.

[@davidpeightal4918]

@@Darknimbus3 I was driving truck and I set them various places in the truck. Maybe got some heat unintentionally. My perception was they were just air drying. Got lucky I guess.

[@katherinez9654]

Oh wow, I used to go morel mushroom hunting with my grandparents every spring. I’m so glad that we never got sick.

[@mcfly7]

The doctors says she does not know but still eats it. Perfect example of someone who is not thinking.

[@suzannakoizumi8605]

My mother, born in 1909, could walk through the woods and find mushrooms. She cooked them with an old-time nickel. If the nickel turned black.....or if the nickel didn't turn black....that is how she knew she had a good batch. Does anyone know the nickel trick? Unfortunately, mother is gone now.

[@hulljames9637]

Well yeah, she was born in 1909 afterall...

[@ravenraven966]

I heard that from my grandfather.... But I'm not sure of the details

[@marthajean50]

You can look that up with AI. It will find it for you, I bet.

[@danantes5223]

Are nickels still made of the same metal as they were back then?

[@ElizabethRussell144]

​@@danantes5223Probably not : )

[@stevepeterson5943]

A guy died in a car accident after being safe driver for thirty years. Therefore, you will die if you drive a car.

[@beckyjay8073]

😂

[@MothGirl007]

Not the same thing, at all.

[@marthajean50]

False analogy. No-one has claimed you'll die if you eat wild mushrooms, so it's incorrect. (Also, transportation is quite often necessary to supporting life, whereas ingesting wild mushroom never is, so there's also the subject of taking on an unnecessary risk of death for something that's entirely unneeded).

[@stevepeterson5943]

@@marthajean50. . Context . . . Read through the comments, what's the prevailing consensus.

[@marthajean50]

@@stevepeterson5943 I haven't seen people saying you'll die if you eat a wild mushroom.

[@jeffreylindley845]

I used to eat them when I was a kid. Just soaked in salt water over night to get rid of the bugs and then dipped in eggs and flour and fried in butter. I knew nothing about how well cooked they needed to be. But I never got sick from eating them.

[@DexterRose]

as a general rule of thumb you don't want to get sushi from a guy named Dave, maybe a cheeseburger but definitely not sushi.

[@stevestevenson6389]

One does not die from morels however there is a deadly toxic lookalike

[@timriggs8651]

If you have an underlying medical problem, poisoning from the toxin in the Morel most certainly can kill someone.

[@marthajean50]

They're saying morels are what killed this man.

[@Blippitybloppitybloop]

@@marthajean50 They said that the morels were picked in 2022 and dried and stored improperly. The man died of food poisoning. This is more fear P for the ignorant gullible masses who's opinions are easily swayed by a single news story, and then they suddenly become 'experts' and make uninformed ignorant comments like this one. Enjoy your NPC life. Lmfao, clown.

[@A3Kr0n]

Why take the risk?

[@kyleegarcia5569]

My thoughts exactly I had no idea they could be toxic! Here in Michigan hunting for morels is big.

[@marksongbird7534]

Yup, it's like hey let's play with this snake.

[@M_SC]

@@kyleegarcia5569they’re never not toxic. But lots of food needs to be cooked to be not toxic/poisonous for you. Like rhubarb.

[@cremebrulee4759]

Because they are delicious and perfectly safe if cooked long enough. Most people fry them in butter. Having said that, I never realized that they were toxic if they weren't cooked adequately.

[@realist7239]

@@M_SC raw rhubarb is toxic?

[@sitindogmas]

don't be afraid, be cautious and sure. rest in peace dude 💚

[@onisgagan2481]

I had no idea morels were so sketchy. They’re good but not worth the risk…

[@Conradlovesjoy]

They aren’t. Do a little more reading beyond this bad report.

[@nickjohnson5697]

They aren't. One in a million because he didn't follow food safely procedures

[@markr.1984]

They're not sketchy, this was an extremely rare thing. One in a billion.

[@audreydaleski1067]

If they are not one piece, they are the fake and poisonius ones. Poisonous ones break where cap meets stem.

[@RebeLeigh]

Morels are hollow inside while false morels have tissue and fibers all through. Alot of people don't know the difference

[@marianfrances4959]

Rest in peace and condolences.

[@johnouellet4099]

Why even risk this, I can think of my really thousands of things I’d rather eat than mushrooms

[@joanhuffman2166]

Don't eat morel mushrooms RAW. All mushrooms need to be cooked for the sake of digestion, but raw morels can kill you.

[@maewebster9377]

morels are soooooo good but you have to be so careful because they do resemble another mushroom looks like the edible morel. As a kid, I never could tell them apart so I just let the experienced 2:45 folks pick them….plus where were, snakes abided also.

[@user-wr4mi3td2c]

That’s crazy I’ve lived in Idaho and picked morels all growing up and I ate numerous raw picked right from the ground and I’ve never had an issue. Didnt even know they were poisonous. Soo sad though he looked like a wholesome human. Prayers to his family 🙏

[@lewisweakland]

Really excellent reporting!

[@rogerluoma3056]

Lol

[@SundayCookingRemix]

My dad, military, warned of this since we were small children I just remember my dasa lecture is all He trained recruits

[@PalmBeachFlorida24]

✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️

[@_mycotroph]

The military trains soldiers to not eat mushrooms in other countries because ones we can eat here may have toxic lookalikes in other countries and vis versa. His training doesn't serve civilians, mushroom foraging is safe

[@dawg2100]

Whats being in the military got to do with this? Nothing is a good answer.

[@Conradlovesjoy]

@@dawg2100the military teaches you only truth about how to survive every situation. So they are experts.

[@nickjohnson5697]

I'm a combat vet. And I'm wondering what that has to do with morels. They are perfectly safe. Any food can make you sick if you don't store and cook it properly.

[@JD-xg8zi]

I like how he mixed it with uncle Bens ready rice. Not the first thing I would suspect from a foraging granola muncher

[@_mycotroph]

Mycologists are a special breed of tree hugger; we tend to be hippies rather than yuppies

[@roboticunclephil]

uncle bens is a camping lifehack, so easy to prepare, takes up almost no space, taste pretty good & high in calories

[@protovack]

they were camping...its not that surprising. its a quick meal, not much cooking required.

[@_mycotroph]

@roboticunclephil it's a life hack for other things to; they're damn near made to be inoculated with psilocybe spores

[@roboticunclephil]

@@_mycotroph lol cool

[@moralfortitude...2217]

My Condolences 🙏 speechless 😶

[@mikecoday2050]

Wow! That is worrisome. I panfried a bunch of morels with cashews last friday night and my wife and I consumed them. I have considered morel to be a safe wild mushroom. I will be very careful.

[@johncurtis1472]

Alot come from burn area's it could be the fire retardants planes dust the fires with

[@starshine3588]

That has nothing to do with it. These mushrooms are extremely toxic and can kill if not cooked properly and thoroughly….it doesn’t matter where they came from and it doesn’t matter if they are real or false ones like some people keep saying…..they can kill if not cooked or not cooked properly.

[@choccolocco]

“Morels in June”? That’s a little late….

[@Mdeaccosta]

Exactly

[@63ah1275]

It's the height of the season in the Adirondacks.

[@choccolocco]

@@63ah1275 The more you know. Thanks.

[@PinkFlowers365]

thanks for the warning

[@lorettanericcio-bohlman567]

He seemed like a nice man

[@jazziez6467]

we eat the mushrooms raw from the grocery store all the time, so i never knew you had to cook morels for a long time to not die from a poison, guess i'll stay clear of those

[@isabellavalencia8026]

Those white table mushrooms are made in a factory these morels are out in the wild so most likely they either weren't cooked enough or they had a false morel in the batch which those are poisonous whether they're cooked or not

[@landomilknhoney]

​@@isabellavalencia8026there's often environment contamination, as well. Fungi are sponges and absorb the pollutants that surround them.

[@isabellavalencia8026]

@@landomilknhoney true that!

[@UncleDavesKitchen]

I had no idea they were toxic. I've seen them offered for sale dried.

[@robertmcmanus636]

They're not toxic.

[@iunnox666]

They aren't. This was probably food poisoning.

[@iunnox666]

@Zenith-pq7qh Button mushrooms have a lot of hydrazines as well. Good idea to cook them well, but you certainly aren't going to die if you don't.

[@willymaykit1482]

Picking any mushrooms in the woods is ridiculously stupid. IDC how long you cook them, it's fungus.

[@rdr6276]

I think it's highly possible there were some false morels in there, judging from the pics. Heartbreaking story.

[@sherryknowles0811]

I have always wanted to be able to forage but I will stitch to buying at the supermarket!