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¿Question #5505?
ssmooth: How do you tell which mushrooms to pick?

Jrtolf: I'd skip over all of them.
BOBBYCAN: I'll stick with buying them at the store.
Woelf: Eat them all. If you start vomiting and/or die, you picked the wrong ones.
Spirit of 70: I do not know, which is why I do not pick them.
bkdkk: You lick 'em!!
czze: study super mario
Kl�ve: Dey all dilicious
Wapahala: Ask someone who knows which ones aren't poisonous.
MartinWin: I ask my mother. She knows them.
WerewolfByDay: 'Son, now go try that one.'
peapicker: It's not a problem, pick 'em all. Now, it gets more difficult if you want to know which of those are edible...
vandemonium: Taste them first. If you don't die you are good to go.
Felimid: Ask them if they want to be picked, first. If they're okay with it, pick 'em. If not, ask the next batch of mushrooms. :)
Hobbespm: By the little signs in the grocery store.
spayne: learn mushroom language
Smurfy 0151: Hire someone to eat some first. If he croaks, don't pick those ones.
soundpreacher: The red ones are great, but the green ones give you an extra Mario.
2amp: the ones in the store
martybjsg: By following a bunch of people picking and taking tastes of what they picked. I hang out with the non-choking and collapsing folks.
TheKeck: They show up in your lawn.
ZeroZilla: There's a thing about whether or not it's got a "cup" at the bottom of the stem... that's the only one I remember. For the record, the "cup" is bad. It's called the 'Death Cup'. Don't pick those.
Purple_FairyQueen: my ma does that
DHEK: Don't. Pick. Wild. Mushrooms.
Tall_Walt: I pick the ones in the store.
POvidiusNaso: Beats hell out of me.
kimba: In the grocery store they're ALL good!
puddnhead: the ones that i know are safe cause they're in the supermarket
Leo-T: the ones without the dead people lying next to them
erikk: I read the labels on the supermarket shelves to see the variety
tagger418: Eat them
Rocketman_2004: you just have to know what kind grow in your area and which ones are good, check with the DNR someone there will be able to tell you what kind of edible mushrooms grow around you.
Stockholm: the ones with the cheapest pricetag
greglios: Don't pick any, they're disgusting.
bigbadsteve: eat em. if you get sick, hallucinate, die, etc. they werent good
JBMallus: from their spores
joebelanger: If you don't know, then don't pick 'em.
nerotora: Assign numbers and roll a d20.
vampywife: just avoid them all, it's better that way
BeeCeeJay: I have no idea, so I err on the side of caution and don't pick them at all... and if they appear in a ring in the middle of a forest, I run like hell.
ssmooth: It depends on what you want them for.
bekudno: I've been mushroom hunting once, but I was with friends who knew what they were doing, and had a guide book.
scriptorum: You ask the pig which ones smell trufflicous. Um. Anyhow, I really don't know.
brainrob: I read the labels in the supermarket
LemonyFresh: I don't
Fawkes: You pick the ones in the can.
skrutsch: I just buy them at the store.
jasta6: By which ones cost less on the shelf......................
double_ones: bring a book with color pictures
Loquutus: I let you eat it first.
acetate3: Get a field guide. (P.S. the ones on cow pies down south are highly recommended)
mgringo: Choose the liberty caps. The amanita muscaria that talk to you are trying to trick you.
CortexBomb: Well, by identifying them. Hint: Morels look like dried brains and are tasty. The puffer mushrooms which emit a toxic yellow cloud when stepped upon are not
Randy Cox: You pick the ones that aren't looking dark and wet--you know, the ones that look best in the package in the grocery store.
puffinge: I hate mushrooms.
skelebone: I don't pick any of them -- too risky.
heli: too long to answer here
chaddyboy_2000: Taste testing.
CDRodeffer: That's easy! None of them.
Lord_Prussian: You just pick the morels and learn how they look. Everything else could be poisonous as far as I know.
jttm: You smell them. Good mushrooms smell of rot.