Don Kirkman <spambuster@covad.net> wrote in message news:<lv35jvkkmripjpns464ig91rpioh8jc4ug@4ax.com>...
> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kaz wrote in article
> <365fcc52.0308061028.2a43ee76@posting.google.com>:
> 
> 
> [...]
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> >I'm eating Shitake mashroom and it gives you no hallucinations.
> 
> Is that anything like the shiitake [beechtree mushrooms] the Japanese
> people eat?  Is a mashroom a Japanese mosh-pit?  Inquiring minds want to
> know.

Yes, it's shitalke, not matsutake that Canadians used to be stepping
on them and then mashing them. For Japanese like me, both mashroom and
mushroom sound same. Nowadays, a lot of matsutake being sold in Japan
are Canadian matsutake. Canadians finally realized they are worth for
the Japanese, and then started to collect them for an export to Japan.
I think there must be matsutake grown in the US where close to Canada,
maybe such as Washington state. They would be a good export to Japan.