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Morels are finally poppin'!

CaliFFLCaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
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Found these on my property. Going out to the honey spot later today.


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When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.

Adam J. McCleod


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  • Dr. dbDr. db Posts: 1,541 Senior Member
    #2
    Mmmmmm!!
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  • JermanatorJermanator Posts: 16,244 Senior Member
    #3
    :drool:
    Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.
    -Thomas Paine
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  • DanChamberlainDanChamberlain Posts: 3,395 Senior Member
    #4
    I wonder who the first person was who looked at one of those and said, I'm gonna put that in my mouth!
    It's a source of great pride for me, that when my name is googled, one finds book titles and not mug shots. Daniel C. Chamberlain
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  • CaliFFLCaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
    #5
    DanChamberlain wrote: »
    I wonder who the first person was who looked at one of those and said, I'm gonna put that in my mouth!

    I've wondered the same thing about crustaceans and mollusks.
    When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.

    Adam J. McCleod


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  • TeachTeach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member
    #6
    What about the first person who looked at a chicken and thought "I'm gonna eat the next thing that falls out of that bird's butt"? I've got a friend who calls morels "dry land fish". I've never found one on our 100 acres in close to 30 years of looking- - - - -they're elsewhere nearby, but we don't have any for some reason!
    Jerry
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  • Dr. dbDr. db Posts: 1,541 Senior Member
    #7
    Some of those things could be the result of observation. Hence the expression, "You egg suckin' dawg!". But I wonder who decided to soak olives in brine. They are unusually untasty straight off the tree. Or who figure out that if you wash manioc root paste in three changes of water it won't poison you.
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  • TeachTeach Posts: 18,428 Senior Member
    #8
    Actually, some olives are cured in lye. It needs to penetrate almost, but not quite to the pit, and then be washed repeatedly in clean water to remove the chemicals before trying to eat the olive. I had several friends in California with olive trees who did their own curing in used whiskey barrels. Quite a process, with lots of ways to get it wrong! Olives "ripe off the tree" are so bitter they're impossible to eat.

    Here's one lye method, used on green, not ripe olives:
    http://honest-food.net/2012/10/15/curing-olives-lye-recipe/

    Jerry
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  • CaliFFLCaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
    #9
    cpj wrote: »
    You suck. I have found three so far.

    Isn't that more than you found last year? :devil:
    When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.

    Adam J. McCleod


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  • Dr. dbDr. db Posts: 1,541 Senior Member
    #10
    More or less? Moreless?
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  • JayhawkerJayhawker Posts: 18,362 Senior Member
    #11
    Morels were poppin here this morning as well..I've found more here in Kansas than I ever did in MI....
    Sharps Model 1874 - "The rifle that made the west safe for Winchester"
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  • 1965Jeff1965Jeff Posts: 1,650 Senior Member
    #12
    Four of us picked about 2 gallons this afternoon in a about an hour and half, just got done eating the tasty mor(s)els. They are just now going good, found about 15 last Sunday when it was much warmer than today.
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  • rapier5316rapier5316 Posts: 312 Member
    #13
    Teach wrote: »
    What about the first person who looked at a chicken and thought "I'm gonna eat the next thing that falls out of that bird's butt"? I've got a friend who calls morels "dry land fish". I've never found one on our 100 acres in close to 30 years of looking- - - - -they're elsewhere nearby, but we don't have any for some reason!
    Jerry

    Try near the burn barrel or anywhere that was on fire about 3 years ago or longer.
    "The power of the United States has peaked, oppression follows." Robert Prector, Socionomics.net
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  • shootbrownelkshootbrownelk Posts: 2,035 Senior Member
    #14
    rapier5316 wrote: »
    Try near the burn barrel or anywhere that was on fire about 3 years ago or longer.

    Anywhere near a dead elm tree or an old apple orchard.
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  • bellcatbellcat Posts: 2,040 Senior Member
    #15
    Looks Great! I grew up in the Platte river valley in central Nebraska, and the Morels were plentiful!
    "Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see." Mark Twain
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  • sherwoodsherwood Posts: 1,224 Senior Member
    #16
    CaliFFL wrote: »
    I've wondered the same thing about crustaceans and mollusks.

    How about crabs?
    I may be old but I ain't dead!
    DPRMD
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  • KSU FirefighterKSU Firefighter Posts: 3,249 Senior Member
    #17
    sherwood wrote: »
    How about crabs?

    They make medicine for that.
    The fire service needs a "culture of extinguishment not safety" Ray McCormack FDNY
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  • CaliFFLCaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
    #18
    sherwood wrote: »
    How about crabs?

    Crabs, shrimp, lobsters, crayfish, krill, and prawns are all crustaceans. Unless you are referring to the parasitic version that make the nether regions itch.
    When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.

    Adam J. McCleod


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  • minnesotashooterminnesotashooter Posts: 832 Senior Member
    #19
    I never understood why anybody would eat a nasty fungus.

    The asparagus should be popping soon in my area, now that's some good eating!
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  • CaliFFLCaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
    #20
    minnesotashooter wrote: »
    I never understood why anybody would eat a nasty fungus.

    The asparagus should be popping soon in my area, now that's some good eating!


    I never understood why someone would eat a plant that makes their urine smell like they have an STD.
    When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.

    Adam J. McCleod


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  • bullsi1911bullsi1911 Posts: 12,434 Senior Member
    #21
    minnesotashooter wrote: »
    I never understood why anybody would eat a nasty fungus.

    The asparagus should be popping soon in my area, now that's some good eating!

    Never understood why someone would eat something that tastes like asparagus a SECOND time.
    To make something simple is a thousand times more difficult than to make something complex.
    -Mikhail Kalashnikov
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  • bisleybisley Posts: 10,815 Senior Member
    #22
    When I win the lottery, I'll be having asparagus with my ribeye steak, mushrooms, and Shiner beer...every day for the rest of my life.
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  • CaliFFLCaliFFL Posts: 5,486 Senior Member
    #23
    bisley wrote: »
    When I win the lottery, I'll be having asparagus with my ribeye steak, mushrooms, and Shiner beer...every day for the rest of my life.

    Shiner beer? Every day for the rest of your life? You gotta set your sights a bit higher!
    When our governing officials dismiss due process as mere semantics, when they exercise powers they don’t have and ignore duties they actually bear, and when we let them get away with it, we have ceased to be our own rulers.

    Adam J. McCleod


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  • bisleybisley Posts: 10,815 Senior Member
    #24
    CaliFFL wrote: »
    Shiner beer? Every day for the rest of your life? You gotta set your sights a bit higher!

    Shiner used to pass for one of those fancy foreign brews, in the social circles I run in. Besides, I ain't one to give up on a beverage, just 'cause it's gone out of style.
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