Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut.

• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m honestly just weird about fungus and have an immense desire to try as many edible (and sometimes not so edible lol) fungi as I can. This one specifically pains me because I deeply love the history of native America

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    An ex got me a pink oyster log for Valentine’s last year, it started pinning a few weeks ago and I’ve been on a pink oyster binge ever since. Too bad this species isn’t a woody guy, so you could transport it easily.

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My parents had this maple tree between our and our neighbors houses since before I was born but at some point during my teenage years it started to rot. I don’t know when it began or what caused it but I watched the maple tree I used to climb and who’s leaves I used to play in every fall develop a crevasse in its truck that got larger every year. Eventually it began to lean and discussion regarding its removal began. It was around that time though that my affinity for fungus began to develop (started growing them in my closet lol) and I noticed pearl oysters fruiting from that crevasse. Anyway I convinced them to keep a portion of its trunk and every time it fruits is a feast! The tree lives on in my stomach as well as my heart. There’s a hole in the ground where it used to be that also grows reishi which is pretty cool

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      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That is wholesome as fuck! Thanks for the heart warming story on this cold overcast morning.

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• tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One of the best foods I’ve ever had, and definitely the one I’ve thought of most since eating it, was a fresh corn tamale with huilacote. It was the most delicately flavored and delicately textured food I’ve ever had, with small pieces of fresh corn kernel and even corn silk still in the masa. This description really does not do justice…

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m very curious where that was the local spelling (and also being a fat ass kinda want to eat it.).

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• hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So my SO really wanted to try this. We were vacationing in Mexico and bought it at Walmart of all places.

  We were at an Airbnb and were gonna make it, but we chickened out. Afraid of doing it wrong and getting sick.

  It’s like, with chicken, I’ve prepared it enough times that when I crack open the package, I can tell pretty easily if it’s gone bad. Or when I cook it, I know to cook it long enough so it’s not pink.

  But that stuff? There’s so much we didn’t know, and were too afraid to try. A missed opportunity for sure.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That makes my interaction early today make so much more sense!

    I have a bodega within walking distance and asked about getting some fresh or dried, and the clerk legit laughed. Then he told me in Spanglish pretty much “good luck” he got some fresh one time but was very expensive.

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