mushroom poisoning

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Purosangue

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1,134 posts

20 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Anyone been following the Australian mushroom poisoning case


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12403745/...

Woman invites ex Husband , both his parents , her sister and brother in law round for a home made beef wellington meal that contains death cap mushrooms , after eating the meal , The parents and sister in law die , brother in law hospitalised needs a liver transplant.

Ex husband doesnt turn up for the meal , takes custody of his two children .

strange facts about the case . The husband had suffered severe food poisoning months before and required hospital treatment .
Ex wife prepared the meal , says she used two types of mushrooms , button mushrooms from a supermarket and dried mushrooms from an Asian seller . she cant remember which Asian seller ?
She also used a dehydrator to dry the mushrooms which she dumped at a land fill site ?.............miraculously , she didnt eat enough mushrooms to make her seriously ill . When half a death cap can kill ?
she removed mushrooms later , so children could have the beef wellington because they don't like mushrooms .

The meal was apparently to get back with the husband

Case doesn't add up




Bob-iylho

724 posts

113 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Purosangue said:
Case doesn't add up
add up to what? You think she may be telling porkie and mushroom pies.

gotoPzero

18,192 posts

196 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Sounds like a shiitake situation to me.

GT9

7,556 posts

179 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Purosangue said:
Case doesn't add up
Agree, cut and dried.
Doesn't leave mushroom for speculation.

Bright Halo

3,251 posts

242 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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The ex husband sounds like a real fun guy.

poo at Paul's

14,331 posts

182 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Sounds like she has beef

munroman

1,882 posts

191 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Looks like you'd have to spore over the fine detail to get to the truth.

dudleybloke

20,482 posts

193 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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I'm in the dark over this.

Mastodon2

13,925 posts

172 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Edit: curses, GT9 beat me to the pun-ch. rofl

GT9

7,556 posts

179 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Mastodon2 said:
Edit: curses, GT9 beat me to the pun-ch. rofl
beer

C5_Steve

4,856 posts

110 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Sounds like a case for Mold-er and Scully

dandarez

13,455 posts

290 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Well, doesn't that story just cap it all off?

Somewhatfoolish

4,654 posts

193 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Sounds suspicious as hell but don't necessarily believe what you read in the papers.

mac96

4,436 posts

150 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Who would feed something to their children (unless they wanted to kill them) which had been cooked with poisonous mushrooms, just because they thought they had got all the toxic bits out? Bound to have missed something, and what if the cooking spread the toxins anyway?

Sounds very odd as well as tragic.

Vanden Saab

14,806 posts

81 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Anyone who eats mushrooms deserves everything they get. hateful things.

cossy400

3,260 posts

191 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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Also shes said that shes chucked away something she used to cook them in.

She invited ex husband to try and win him back....

eharding

14,150 posts

291 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned Crimini mushrooms already. Come on, they're just gagging for a bit of punmanship here.

dudleybloke

20,482 posts

193 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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eharding said:
I can't believe nobody has mentioned Crimini mushrooms already. Come on, they're just gagging for a bit of punmanship here.
Button it!

C5_Steve

4,856 posts

110 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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cossy400 said:
Also shes said that shes chucked away something she used to cook them in.

She invited ex husband to try and win him back....
So originally she didn't admit to this but now has. It was a dehydrator! But she now says the mushrooms she cooked with were Button ones from a supermarket and dried mushrooms from an Asian supermarket she bought months ago. She says she didn't even use the dehydrator but panicked when this all happened that her ex would take the kids, so she took the dehydrator to a landfill in secret......

I've never made beef wellington myself but I've seen Gordon Ramsey do it enough times, I don't think I've ever seen him use dried shrooms? In fact the one thing I do remember about making the duxelles is to cook the shrooms thoroughly to ensure there's no water left.

Paul Dishman

4,832 posts

244 months

Monday 14th August 2023
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I knew someone through work who's sister cooked a meal for her family after going foraging for mushrooms. Her husband and children didn't like the tase of it and didn't finish their meal although the woman said that they were being fussy and finished hers.

They all ended up in hospital, the husband and children were ok but the wife was really ill. She needed a kidney transplant, but died before a donated kidney became available.