To be fair, the hazard of the two activities is comparable depending on the mushroom.
In more ways than just poison too! I think there's still limitations on how many mushrooms you're supposed to consume in some areas, because some of the fallout from the Chornobyl disaster is still present in them.
I'm not sure there's any limits anymore, at least if you're not going mushroom picking in the Red Forest or something. There definitely were limits though in some areas (like here in Finland), and for example cesium is still found in mushrooms here but at levels so low it's really not a problem anymore. Same in Germany too, looks like
Reminds me of a scene from Blackadder youtube.com/embed/GMwXMLQAoSg?start=45&end=85
Blackadder is one series that I keep meaning to watch, it seems hilarious. Not sure it was ever broadcast in Finland way back when, but now we have
torrentscompletely legal ways to acquire media off the internet
What does it taste like
Like pop rocks but all over your body
Sour!
Well, at least the "hard radiation" part: Louis Slotin, one of the victims of the demon core, reported a sour taste when the screwdriver he was using to hold the halves of the core apart slipped and they slammed together and went supercritical.
