Posted: 9/20/2004 1:10:22 PM EDT
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The gay sushi thread made me hungry so I made a sandwich. While assembling this manly masterpiece I noticed that there was a big spot of black mold on the roll. I just tore it off and continued on my merry way. Great sandwich! Got to thinking. Is bread mold bad for you? |
Ergotamine Tartarate, IIRC. Grows on rye and causes hallucinations. We busted a bunch of hippies in Stillwater about 15 years ago who were making the stuff in house over at 8th & Hester. They started off with what amounted to a "sour dough" recipe and then infected the "starter" with psillicybin mushroom spores. They sold the stuff canned in Kerr mason jars just like home preserves. The stuff looked and smelled like something that was growing in the back of your refrigerator. We didn't even know what the stuff was until someone from OBNDD recognized it and identified it. It was supposed to have about the same high as mushrooms but in a concentrated form with twice the kick. The agent from OBNDD said that the stuff also occurred naturally and was documented as early as 500 BC when a village's grain stores would become moldy and the whole damn village would have visions. They called it St Elmo's Fire or some other nonsense as the primitive villagers thought that it was God talking to all of them at once. |
Yes, indeed, and we are the genetic heirs of folks who ate moldy bread...and didn't die! We are, accordingly, the survivors. Eric The(<gack><wheeze><cough>IfYouCanCallThis'Survival')Hun 
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| Pale Pony...are you in Stillwater now? The wife and I are from there. Went to high school and college there. Her brother retired from The Stillwater Fire Department 2 years ago, and now works for the Payne County Sherriffs office. Most of our family and old friends are in the Stillwater area...Andrew |
I left there beack in 1987, a long time ago, back before their DA went to prison  I hear 'ol Carl Hiner is still a blowin' and a goin' over at the sheriff's office! edited to add: I could sure do with a REAL Hideaway Pizza 
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The guy who discovered LSD was investigating the chemical properties of ergot and absorbed some through his skin. 
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Hes a witch! |
Looks kinda like camo. |
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Not to be a goof, but you are mixing up ergot poisoning with psilocybin mushrooms. They are not the same fungi. Ergotin is produced by Claviceps purpurea, which grows on damp rye. Psilocybin mushrooms are Agarics that are "coprophilous," that is they grow on shit. If your hippies were trying to grow Psilocybe on "sourdough" they may have gotten fungus, but it likely wasn't 'shrooms. You can grow them on wood chips, but I think bread dough is unlikely, though one never knows with fungi... Yes, they both can cause hallucinations, but I would say that Claviceps is probably more potent in this regard. Also, bread mold is generally a Penicillium, which is again different. While Penicilliums are not terribly hazardous, certain species of Aspergillus are very nasty and can produce potent carcinogens. My advice-- if it's funky, thow it out. Basically with fungi, you just never know. Food is cheap. Your liver is not. |
ARRGGG you bastard, thanks alot for grossing the shit out of me for the next week  
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Now imagine how it smelled! That was worse than it looks! |
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one day while really hungry i remembered we had pumpernikel bread so i was like that sounds goood so i pick up the half loaf we had left and took a big bite out of it ughhhhhhhhhhhh the mold had blended in with the dark bread camouflaged by the blackness of the bread not something i care for to happen again the entire inside was mold |