Don Kirkman <spambuster@covad.net> wrote in message news:<24l7jvovsfkr63hhd3nqahqi9k6h6j2coi@4ax.com>...
> It seems to me I heard somewhere that Kaz wrote in article
> <365fcc52.0308072007.1c60ad8e@posting.google.com>:
> 
> >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.
> 
> Very few commercial mushrooms are "gathered;" they're grown on farms
> like other produce.  Even in Japan.

Matsutake can't be produced on farms like other mushrooms, and that's
why they're sold in a very high price in Japan. Some agricultural
scientists have been working on the artificial cultivation of
matsutake for decades but it seems they still won't be able to do it
for next few decades.

I think hiring those unemployed folks for "gathering" those matsutake
in mountains of the northwestern states in the US would be a good
idea.