Don't risk buying potentially deadly mushrooms from an outer suburban shop whose name you cannot remember, and instead grow your own.
White Oyster, Chocolate Oyster or Lion’s Mane are the choices on offer.
Mushroom Growing Kits $29.99 @ ALDI
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Coles seems to sell Acres Mushroom Kit, same as Aldi. Only available at select stores, not able to find price at Coles. Did you see them in stock at Coles? Which Coles store was this?
North Rocks,I think. They had lion's mane and oyster in the fridge.
It was 26.99 , saw it at Cole's Point cook.
invite all your friends you love so much around for one big lunch …
family and friends
Make sure you explain the joke!
Make sure the in laws are on the list
Just make sure you don't eat any of said delicious meal.
I guess you guys don't get the reference.
Op edited it just because some of us aren't up to date with current affairs.
Yep
@WatchNerd: I'll just leave it as is. Still, not healthy that people are so easily triggered and offended these days, even when the statement was not intended to offend or discriminate.
What was the reference, I missed the pre-edited writings of OP.
@lachhelix: Oh wow, thanks :). I didn't know about that feature. I'll have to remember it for next time :)
Yes, sorry, that went right over my head. I obviously retract my statement and apologise to the OP.
What am I missing? Looks fine to me. If there is anything suss going on it is not 'overt' (plainly and obviously apparent).
OP edited the original post to remove Asian reference
It said "Asian shop" originally and apparently that is considered overtly racist now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Leongatha_mushroom_poison…
Police confirmed on 14 August that Patterson provided them with a detailed statement, in which she said she had bought dried mushrooms from an Asian supermarket in Mount Waverley (around 118 kilometres (73 mi) away from Leongatha) three months before the lunch.
Her statement doesn't necessarily mean she's telling the truth.
@John: Making reference to a well-known news story doesn't necessarily mean OP's a racist. It's my belief she wasn't telling the truth and murdered those people with mushrooms sourced outside of an Asian supermarket
Erin Patterson has been charged with three counts of murder and five counts of manslaughter. She allegedly murdered the victims via mushroom poisoning at a lunch on 29 July 2023. There is a heavy media involvement with this case which may influence the way it is heard in Court.
That means that police believed she poisoned people intentionally beyond reasonable doubt (essentially, she did it).
Yes, that’s right! We can all learn from what she said.
I changed the description, as designating racial designation of certain shops triggers some people, despite statement of facts.
I saw the original comment. I didnt think it was racist. The shops in question are run by those of asian decent (as far as I've ever seen from the 10 or so locations I've visited) and often have packaging not in English for obscure/uncommon items for you to verify origins or certifications, so its inherently has some risk vs a larger chain such as Aldi.
And yeah the names of these store are often not naturally memorable for the typical Australian. The only one I've nailed down is Tong Li as I have visited several of their franchise locations over the years.
I don't feel that the intention was to critisize asians in so much as to communicate a very real situation that occurs.
But hey maybe I am also falling out of touch with what is appropriate to say these days - I accept that can happen and am happy for the votes of my peers to drive my comment in the direction it deserves.
Edit: To add, "Asian store" is what majority of people I know would call such a store. Its culturally acceptable today between the people I know, including several asian individuals I've grown up with - but maybe thats changing.
@Kill Joy: Yup I'm a regular for those shops and i know stuffs often come from someone's backyard or national park.
@[Deactivated]: I think that makes sense @pilmarion. I also think the logistics chain is fairly unregulated as I've had quite a few allergic reactions myself from the fresh greens produce in my local asian vareity store due to grass/other contamination which never happens with the big 2 - but the quality is usually quite good and variety is wide so I take the risk frequently. I just do my best to rinse/soak everything very thoroughly.
@[Deactivated]: I frequent these types of shops almost daily and I know some of the older ladies who grow and sell things like watercress and coriander
@Kill Joy: Just to present what I think could be a reasonable interpretation of the original post "Don't risk buying potentially deadly mushrooms from an Asian shop whose name you cannot remember, and instead grow your own."
If someone reading didn't know if this was a reference to a news story, you might think it is some kind of negative stereotype where because it's an Asian shop, it's a shop that seems shady because it has an incomprehensible name.
I think it's because in the gray fuzziness, it's true that if you have a foreign import product, the labelling may not be 100% clear which makes it a bit more risky compared to a corporation supermarket product/import. But "a bit more risky" is a world apart from the interpretation that it's "dangerous" to shop at foreign import shops, something I imagine Asian store owners would be VERY sensitive to. So it might be the case that people assume the worst interpretation. Calling a store asian is fine but if the risk analysis is done honestly, it's the same assessment made to any small foreign import goods store.
Yes, there is now a very bizarre and child-like conception among a loud minority of Australians as to what constitutes racism. Watch them react to this comment.
Quoting statistics about a minority race provided by our tax payer-funded 'Bureau of Statistics' will be embraced and loved by this mob, or branded as 'racist', depending on whether it paints that minority race in a good or a bad light. Here's a hypothetical example:
Statement 1
'Australian aboriginal people are over-represented (per capita) in the AFL, likely due to a genetic predisposition that renders them particularly well-suited to the sport.'
Statement 2
'Australian aboriginal people are significantly more likely (per capita) than the broader Australian population to commit physical violence against their partner.'
This loud minority will hail statement 1 as a great thing.
This loud minority will decry statement 2 as 'racist'.
@GnarlyKnuckles: 100% it's the same with crime stats of Australians from Sub Saharan Africa.
As an overall % of crime committed they constitute barely a blip.
However, as a % of crime committed as an Ethnicity they are committing crimes at a higher rate of other ethnicities.
Both statements are true and the second one might be problematic for some people, but we really need to have good, honest conversations on how to manage this to avoid entrenching certain groups in cycles of crime and poverty.
@poppingtags: Yo poppers, re:
'… it's only racist if you stop at the stat'
That's utterly ludicrous, and you are clearly a prime example of the loud minority that I am referring to. There is nothing racist about citing any statistic. Based on your logic, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is 'racist' because they are in the business of acquiring statistics and making them publicly available, without delving into 'why' the statistics are the way they are.
@poppingtags: None of what you say makes any logical sense whatsoever poppers. It's all laughable. 'Stopping at the stat' implies nothing. You are suggesting that unless you can explain why a stat is the way it is, you should not mention the stat at all. Well here's a newsflash for you. The way science works is first you identify the facts, then if you have the time and resources, and if it is worthwhile to you, you investigate why a stat is the way it is.
According to your child-like logic though, no research would ever get done because no one would ever be allowed to mention any statistic.
Lololol, keep reeling them in, champ.
@GnarlyKnuckles: At no point did I say that stats shouldn't mentioned, I work with stats on a daily basis - but you keep coming up with imaginary things to complain about, just like you come up with imaginary points to argue against. Truly groundbreaking stuff.
@GnarlyKnuckles: Stats aren't racist, but what can be racist is the narrative the stats can be used to create.
You should also call the police and tell them to change their records as designating racial designation of certain shops triggers some people, despite statement of facts.
Here is the original comment:
"Don't risk buying potentially deadly mushrooms from an Asian shop whose name you cannot remember, and instead grow your own."
I like Asian shops, Coles and Woolworths not so much.
@poppingtags: Long bow much?
Oh - and I’m a huge MSG fan, but regrettably understand that it is not as commonly found over the past twenty years, on account of the fact it was proven that a small minority of people have an intolerance of it. Not because of a hidden agenda against Asian cuisine.
But then, maybe I’m just ricist…
@UncleRico: How is an academic, peer reviewed article explaining the racist origins of anti-MSG rhetoric, a long bow? This isn't even some hidden conspiracy, the history behind this is well established.
What was your source again?
The wilful ignorance on display is something else, but again - quite unsurprising given the calibre of thought I've seen on this website in the past.
@poppingtags: I am intolerant to MSG and unfortunately I find it mostly in packets of chips at the supermarket.
@poppingtags: Can’t believe it.. it is some Olympic level gymnastics. I think you said it well enough but maybe I’ll add some more. Maybe it will help, maybe it won’t, but i don’t want poppingtags be standing on their own here.
Let’s extend on the “china virus” example - say I reference it to make a joke about it “yea don’t upset the Chinese, what if they release another virus”, but I’m being sarcastic and referencing this fear politics, and suddenly I’m suggesting and perpetuating that anyone who looks Chinese could infect me with a sickness or would intentionally do so.
People who don’t know me or aren’t otherwise invested in this topic hear the reference and can’t tell I’m joking. They repeat comments about the China Virus and say that they even saw an Asian saying it!!! Must be true!!!
Hasn’t my “joke” reference just provided more airplay to this racist line? Isn’t it perpetuating negativity toward the Chinese race? At the very least, it is harmful.
Now how the hell is that so different to a joke about the dodginess of “asian” shops with no context, even if the OP is referencing something a white murderer said to try and deflect their own guilt? “Oooh yea Asian groceries are dodgy, could have been them, totally.”
@blahhhh10: Infectious diseases throughout history have been named for geographic locations where they were thought to have originated or first isolated: Spanish flu, West Nile virus, MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), Zika and Ebola, Ross River fever/virus etc.
Calling C19 the Wuhan or China virus is inline with the virus nomenclature process and is not in itself racist.
Is your suggestion that anything bad or negative shouldn't ever be named after an Asian country or town because it will justify or incentivise racism?@MeagerDollarBucks: except the "spanish flu" was known at the time to have been first identified in a kansas US army camp….but someone decided to divert attention from there to spain.
@rooster7777: There was a media blackout from all the countries involved in the war, who didn't want the flu information to bring down the war effort morale. Spain was neutral in WW1 and had no media blackout. Cases were first reported in Madrid, then the Spanish King caught it and the news story blew up. Due to this, it was thought that the flu originated somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula hence the Spanish naming. It may have been know at the time (by the USA) that it was first identified in Kansas though likely that wasn't widely known outside the USA until much later after the flu was named.
If you've just stepped out of your nuclear vault, there's a high-profile case at the moment in which someone's been accused of poisoning people they don't like with deadly mushrooms. Repeatedly.
Their excuse is they bought them at an "Asian shop" (although they can't remember which one, and nobody else has been poisoned, suggesting that shop-bought mushies are still fine).
That's what the original comment was referencing; and I don't think it's racist in context.
Well said, ya filthy racist!
I wonder if any of the stone throwers calling out racism can concede that this explanation deflates their impotent argument that this - and everything else which references a particular race or demographic without lauding it - must be racist…
Gail Patterson's statement, which is obviously false, is intended to play on the racist trope that foreign, ethnic food has the risk of being unsafe, could be interpreted as being racist.
The reference to the asian shop within the OPs post however, is intended to ridicule Gail Patterson's statement to police and in context should not be considered racist.
….or:
If she says Colesworth, then they have quality control and product tracking in place, and can rule their product out.
If she says "an Asian store" in a location with a bunch of Asian groceries, it makes it much harder to rule out the origin. Plus, the mushrooms involved are easy to confuse with edible Asian paddy straw mushrooms, providing another level of deniability.
Not everything is racist.
Room temperature IQ comment
No genuine Asian would find the post offensive.
Every real Asian is racist so we wouldn't call out racism because it's the pot calling the kettle charcoal coloured.
Makes you wonder who the dumbasses are that are getting upset.
Yes, this !!!
Have any 'whities' here been to Japan in the last 50 years or so? They are so openly racist against white dudes, that it is oddly 'refreshing/honest'.
Their name for white dudes equates to 'devil spawn' or something like that, and if you rock up to a restaurant they try to 'hide' you up the back. It's hilarious.
Also, overt soyboyism? Get your hand off it.
What's your ethnicity, buddy?
As an ABC, the comment is funny and not racist. Curious to know if other Asians are offended.
What is an 'ABC'? I tried Googling it, predictably to no avail. Unless you are stating that you are an Australian Broadcasting Corporation, or an Asian Beer Cafe …
'Asian-bor'n something maybe?
Uh-oh.
Ain’t no way I’m speculating on what the C stands for in Asian Born C-something…
”He’s a Racist!!!”
Australian born chinese
While I'm usually hyper alert for that stuff, in this case "the Asian shop" was part of the news story.
It is absolutely crucial not to shy away from any aspects of a legal matter that might be construed by idealistic pinko idiotic simpletons as 'racist'. All facts and statements need to be freely and frankly reported, then tested in a court of law.
Sometimes, people evidently resort to implicating a race that they believe may be a 'soft target', after they have committed a terrible crime, and this needs to be unequivocally exposed.
I warn readers not to continue perusing this post/not to click on the link below if you are sensitive to matters pertaining to children. It was a truly tragic event.
For those who can read on however, note this case of a woman who killed her baby, then told police that "… her daughter had been abducted by a drunken African man."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-15/killing-of-toddler-sa…
What a delight it is to live in the decade of 'everything's racist' and 'I'm offended at everything'.
Why buy one of these kits when I have mushrooms growing in my bathroom for free?
some are growing out of my belly button
Such a far fetched risk… Never heard of anyone getting a poisoning from shop mushrooms.
It could be cheaper to grow. But the problem is that spores may cause allergies and respiratory problems if growing at home. Just how often do you eat mushrooms to justify the inconvenience?Yeah that's because she made it up.
Oh I am not even talking about her. It is just a very low risk. I am not saying it is impossible just probably as common as a lightning strike. At the same time spore allergies are quite common. And even from the practical point - it is a mess. Who would want to turn their house into a garden?
FYI MC, typically you put these things in the garage, where it's generally cool (in mid-autumn/winter) and dark.
Have to wonder what she thought or hoped would happen. That many people dying at once, she thought the police wouldn't get involved?
Mmmyeah, clearly a totally psychotic nutjob.
The whole scenario is completely bizzzzarrrro.
I think most people would do this because they find it enjoyable rather than to save money.
Any chance they have a kit for growing magic mushrooms?
No.
Use their substrate, and purchase your perfectly legal spores online. Mushrooms spores of any kind are legal to purchase AFAIK, but also IANAL.
You what? ;)
he anal
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I got a good laugh out of these comments, but for those confused IANAL stands for “I am not a lawyer”
@ozbking: Apologies all, sometimes I forget that ozbargain is not a deeply embedded online community like reddit or whirlpool, and that internet only acronyms are not commonly used.
Maybe.. however you might contaminate your spores or not. You need an above normal standard of hygiene + a prepared spore bag with an injection spot is better.
Mushrooms are often in a symbiotic (or parasitic) relationship with a plant or ecosystem, so just putting spores in might not work unless the other conditions are also right (I gave no specific knowledge if this is the case with magic mushrooms though)
Can buy these in the states, but don't ship internationally, well, that's if one were to look, which I've definitely not done #cough-cough#
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I saw one at Coles two days ago and I think it may have been $27.99.