Friday Fungus: "...I am picking mushrooms." - thoughts on the "Great debate"

The glaring omission from yesterday’s “Great Debate” was any discussion of mushrooms (the suggestion that the failure to consume certain mushrooms contributed to the debate’s dullness is, of course, not something your esteemed author can comment on). Critical questions were omitted such as the decline in home grown mushrooms and their substitution with different quality imported mushrooms some of which are not the clean, white colour we expect but brown!

And the shiny pair (plus the dishevelled looking chap) were not asked about their preferences – do they like their mushrooms adulterated with garlic? Or are they fans of lightly fried wild mushrooms with just a hint of herbs, salt and pepper? Maybe (please tell me this ain’t so) one or other of the “leaders” doesn’t like mushrooms? Surely it would be wrong to have a prime minister who didn’t eat mushrooms!

Gone are the days when mushrooms were matters of great diplomatic significance – when a twitch in the production stats for field mushrooms sent tremors through the markets. And the world is not a better place for this – for allowing mushrooms to fade from the agenda of power. Do these men not realise that mushrooms are good for you? That mushrooms can help save the planet? And that mushrooms can help all of us cope with living in a place where bureaucrats, politicians and other busybodies run riot with our freedoms?

Maybe in the next debate? Or may be we should all respond to politicians like Grigory Perelman:

“You are disturbing me, I am picking mushrooms”

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