“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”
In the classic movie “A Christmas Story” by the late Jean Shepherd, this warning was on the lips of every adult who heard young Ralphie’s desperate plea for a Red Ryder BB Gun. Of course, most users of such toys (including yours truly) grow up with nary a mishap. But the possibility of such permanent consequences turned this warning into an adult mantra.
And though today’s interview isn’t with anyone from the powerful BB Gun faction of the NRA, we ARE talking to a devotee of an activity that evokes similar warnings – foraging for wild mushrooms. As with BB Guns, most wild mushrooms are consumed with nary an incident, but the POSSIBILITY of poison brings to mind a warning that might sound like “You’ll poison your liver, kid!”, and the liver is one of those organs without which one dies. And on the scale of bad things, dying from something you ate has to be way up at the top of the list.
Let me first spend a moment introducing the Renaissance Man, the polymath that is Dan Tudor…
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“You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!”