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Originally Posted by Imbrokeson
Here's a good rule to live by: Think about this situation as if you're alone in the wilderness and starving. You come across a mushroom that looks edible and safe but you have in the back of your mind that it might kill you. So you think to yourself
"it'll probably be okay. I mean what are the odds that this mushroom is poisonous?" Now, you're probably going to be okay 95% of the time but do you really want to risk it? In situations like these it's best to err on the side of caution... unless you like chicks with dicks. In that case go nuts. No pun intended.
With the mushroom, the sensible approach would be to try a tiny little bit first and wait for some time to see if it has negative effects. Then you try a larger portion and wait some more and repeat that scheme maybe 3-4 times until you established or refuted the edibility of the mushroom.
Not sure how this translates to the case at hand though.