英語リスニング - No.340 Mushrooms
Marion talks about a story she read about mushrooms.
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One of my friends toldme she read a story in the paper today about a man who died from eatingmushrooms, which I thought was quite strange because this old man livedin the mountains I think, or lived in a country area where he wouldhave eaten mushrooms almost every day, I think, or while they were inseason at least, so it made me think of when I was younger and I usedto go out picking mushrooms with my granddad, so sometimes, around now,around autumn time, when it had been a very, very wet night, maybe especiallythat would be good for finding mushrooms the next day, so we'd go outmaybe, maybe three or four of us, my brother and I, and my granddad,sometimes other members of the family would come to or other childrenwho are around to play, and we go picking mushrooms, but I don't thinkI ever, well, I suppose I did pick up mushrooms, but most of them, mostof them were the same type so we didn't have to worry to much aboutpoisonous mushrooms where we were cause I think there mostly they were,they were OK, but my granddad would have told us anyway which ones wecould pick and which ones we couldn't, so it seems strange to me thata man who, who you know would have been really familiar with these mushroomswould actually die from it, but I haven't read the whole story, so I'mnot really sure what happened but my friend seems to think that he atethese mushrooms a lot and then it was just a gradual build up of thepoison in his system, which is kind of an awful way to die really, especiallywhen you are, when you live that close to nature and you're eating allthe food that nature offers you, that nature always offered us.
It does seem a bit unfairreally, but yeah, there are lots of foods I suppose that can do youmore harm in the long run, but in Ireland as well, my mother was reallysurprised that I started eating raw mushrooms, so while I was in Australiawe used to have raw mushrooms and sandwiches, which I never had before,but I thought was quite tasty, so when I went home I'd made some sandwicheswith raw mushrooms but my mother was really surprised and was wonderingwhat the hell I was doing eating raw mushrooms because we never atethem, unless they were cooked so I suppose that was one way as wellas insuring that they were safe to eat, that maybe well my mother seemedto think anyway that raw mushrooms were, would be quite dangerous, alsoone of my colleagues this morning asked me if I'd ever eaten a pinemushroom, so I'd never heard of before but, he was telling me that,that they're a delicacy here in Japan and that I should really try one,even though they are very expensive, he said between 3 and 5 thousandyen, I think they cost, so I'm not really sure, what the taste is butmaybe they're something like I don't know. I think, he said somethinglike that there was a really strong smell, so maybe a similar smellto truffles in France or Italy maybe. I'm not to sure, but sounds interestinganyway.