Torgeir,
You can plant a berry tree or bush and always know where it is – no hunting
involved, only picking. But in the case of mushrooms, at least the mushrooms
and toadstools I’m familiar with, they would grow in mysterious places and for
reasons unknown. I’ve had some appear in my backyard and looked them up on the
internet and they “seemed” to be mushrooms rather than toadstools, but I wasn’t
positive and so threw them out. In modern times they are farmed just like any
other farm product, but they still grow wild, and some people still hunt them.
J IMHO
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] A non-funny comment (more like a question, really) re:
hunters and their hunt
How come Anglo's PICK berries and HUNT mushrooms? What kind of mushrooms would
it be that need to be hunted? And how long has this past-time been going on at
the Isles since the habit has taken refuge in the idiom (it self)?
Mvh. / Yours sincerely,
Torgeir Fjeld, PhD
http://torgeirfjeld.com/
