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**Posted by BowmanvilleBob** July 24, 2025 10:20 am

Mushrooms! Everyone loves mushrooms, right? In fact, people in Latvia love them so much that one of the national networks has a whole program devoted to the people’s favourite fungus:

https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/media/24.07.2025-latvian-radio-show-broadcasts-all-the-latest-mushroom-news.a607924/

**Posted by Binson Echorec** July 24, 2025 10:27 am

But is this show the cremini of the crop?

**Posted by BowmanvilleBob** July 24, 2025 11:11 am

You’re right on the button with your observation Binson. Clearly the world is your oyster, unlike some of the shiitake posters on this forum.

**Posted by newsguy1** July 24, 2025 11:19 am

Bowmanville Bob.
Why so angry at other posters on this board, calling them shitake?
You should try to be more of a fun guy.

**Posted by BowmanvilleBob** July 24, 2025 11:25 am

newsguy1 wrote:
Bowmanville Bob.
Why so angry at other posters on this board, calling them shitake?
You should try to be more of a fun guy.

I am a fun guy. In fact, when it comes to mushrooms, my motto is “the morel the merrier”.

**Posted by betaylored** July 24, 2025 2:55 pm

don't want to stem the pun, it's pretty magic

**Posted by newsguy1** July 24, 2025 8:23 pm

And here's the Canadian connection.
Money's mushroom company of Vancouver had the intellectual pun to describe their product.
It was "What food these morsels be."
This was a pun on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
The fairy, Puck makes fun of the characters in the play, stating "Lord what fools these mortals be.
Nowadays I doubt you would find an ad slogan making a pun on a line from a Shakespeare play.
How I long for the days when the media used word play based on higher education and wit.

**Posted by Capricasix** July 24, 2025 11:00 pm

I wish I could upvote every single post in this thread 🍄‍🟫🍄🍄

**Posted by mace** July 25, 2025 6:45 am

BowmanvilleBob wrote:
newsguy1 wrote:
Bowmanville Bob.
Why so angry at other posters on this board, calling them shitake?
You should try to be more of a fun guy.

I am a fun guy. In fact, when it comes to mushrooms, my motto is “the morel the merrier”.

I, on the other hand, hate mushrooms whether in a soup or salad or on a pizza.

**Posted by Capricasix** July 25, 2025 11:06 am

mace wrote:
BowmanvilleBob wrote:
newsguy1 wrote:
Bowmanville Bob.
Why so angry at other posters on this board, calling them shitake?
You should try to be more of a fun guy.

I am a fun guy. In fact, when it comes to mushrooms, my motto is “the morel the merrier”.
I, on the other hand, hate mushrooms whether in a soup or salad or on a pizza.

I’m on team Mace. My family knows if they’re making something with mushrooms, they should either chop them small enough that I can’t tell, or big enough that I can pick them out 😄 My husband doesn’t mind that because I give him any mushrooms that I find in my food, and he’s more thsn happy to eat them.

**Posted by Calhame** July 25, 2025 11:14 am

Better be careful when eating mushrooms ....Australian woman convicted of murdering relatives by feeding them toxic mushrooms.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cm26eq093myt