{"id":2794,"date":"2025-10-24T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:09:34","slug":"honey-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=2794","title":{"rendered":"Honey Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Years ago I went on a foraging course in the Lake District.  Slept in a sleeping bag in a hammock beneath a tarpaulin strung between two trees.  All was going well until I fell out of the hammock and then whilst stuck in my sleeping bag rolled down the hill.  Brandy may have been involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, whilst there we ate mushrooms, pigeons, deer and other stuff.  Recently I was wandering through the woods with ze hound when I came across some mushrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a29b02b105b5&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a29b02b105b5\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20251013_110933868.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20251013_110933868.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20251013_110933868-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20251013_110933868-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Lens identified them as Honey Fungus which are generally edible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I came back the next day with a bag and picked some of them.  Got them home and double checked Google&#8217;s identification with a proper book written by a proper mushroom dude who knows what he&#8217;s talking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a29b02b10e51&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a29b02b10e51\" class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"1200\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20251015_085210535.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20251015_085210535.jpg 675w, https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PXL_20251015_085210535-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\taria-label=\"Enlarge\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.imageButtonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.imageButtonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an exact match.  So I cooked it up and ate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t die [ obv. ] but it didn&#8217;t exactly taste brilliant.  You could eat it if you were starving in the woods but I&#8217;m guessing there&#8217;s a good reason they don&#8217;t stock Honey Fungus mushrooms on the shelves of our supermarket.  I&#8217;ll probably try it again, with a little garlic and see how things improve.  Also, when I ate it I boiled it first which I wouldn&#8217;t normally do with mushrooms but various websites suggested it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice I keep talking about it in the singular &#8211; I only ate one in the hope of mitigating any stomach cramp, food poisoning, painful death scenarios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I went on a foraging course in the Lake District. Slept in a sleeping bag in a hammock beneath a tarpaulin strung between two trees. All was going well until I fell out of the hammock and then whilst stuck in my sleeping bag rolled down the hill. Brandy may have been involved. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/?p=2794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Honey Fungus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-stuff-i-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junglefreedomfighters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}