Anti-fungal

I don’t like mushrooms. I never have liked them, and I probably never will. This is because they are a fungus. We don’t eat fungi, generally speaking. Name another one we do eat.

Waiting…

No, no. Don’t bother me with yeast. We do not eat yeast. We use yeast. If we could make bread rise without it, we would. Anyway, not only don’t we eat fungi, we have countless anti-fungal creams, ointments, pills and sprays (Boom! Tough actin’ Tinactin!). We like to kill fungi.

I bring this all up because of an observation I made this morning. I pass a dumpster behind a restaurant while I walk from where I park to where I work. Yesterday, I noticed that there were some mushrooms scattered on the ground by the dumpster, but were in otherwise perfect condition. Today, they were still there. This is quite strange because there are a bunch of crows (I think) that are in and around this dumpster everyday. They eat any disgusting, contaminated shred of digestible food they can find. But mushrooms? They don’t want any part.

I trust the food instincts of pretty much any non-human animal. I realize different animals have different diets and digestive systems, but these birds eat anything they can get. Anything but mushrooms. I hope we can all learn from this.

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