“it’s literally gold…”
Food blogger Sean O’Manachain goes hunting in Ballyhoura [in central Munster[ for wild, ceps, chanterelles and hedgehog mushrooms With Mark from Ballyhoura Mountain Mushrooms.
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Hipsters call this ‘foraging’ as if they’ve invented something new.
Everyone else calls it picking mushrooms, berries, wild garlic, fruit, etc.
Do you just call everyone that has an interest in anything that you’re not familiar with a hipster?
Yes usually. Anything that makes me feel old and uncool.
But not in this case. I go picking wild berries every year.
na smeara dubha
Tbf, they look better doing it, all rosy of cheek and tight of jean.
in Ballyhoura [in central Munster]
Do people (Dubs) really not know where Ballyhoura is at all?
Hahahaha no. Of course not.
Why would they? Is nothing more than a crossroads in the middle of nowhere. I’m from Limerick and I never heard of it until a friend got married out there.
It’s enjoying a bit of moment, what with the walking tours and the lodges and the wholesome foresty stuff.
I love it.
Also from Limerick, never heard of it before now.
that was good
Careful with the mushrooms, guys; the author of “The Horse Whisperer” got it wrong, nearly killed him & his wife. They spent a long while on dialysis awaiting kidney transplants.
and great janitors too:
“He points to a clutch of plump oyster mushrooms halfway up an alder trunk. “These could clean up oil spills all over the planet,” he says. … “Smell that? It seems to be outgassing chlorine.” To Stamets, that suggests it can break down toxic chlorine-based polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs. ”
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/13-mushrooms-clean-up-oil-spills-nuclear-meltdowns-and-human-health
It is NOT literally gold. It’s literally a mushroom. It’s figuratively gold, if anything. It’s bad enough to overuse a word but to overuse the wrong word is maddening.
Ha ha. Drives me bonkers too.
Literally
Yep me too.
Now if he was picking the magic variety around Briarhill or Castlebar it’d have my attention…
i would have given that pancetta a bit longer and rendered a bit more fat off it
Say the word ‘shiitake’ tp yourself in a Scouse accent and I guarantee a light chuckle.
Nice to see where wild mushrooms actually come from