Word: toadstools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of this is news to folks in Midwestern and Western states, where the wild fungus, once derided as a "toadstool," is hunted with passion. Last week the season for morels, considered by many connoisseurs to be the tastiest of all, was coming to its peak in Mesick, Mich. (pop. 373), which calls itself "the Mushroom Capital" and counts among its landmarks the Mushroom Cap Motel and the Mush-Room Bar; despite heavy rain, a 30-minute parade swept Miss Mesick Mushroom and her court to fungoid fame...
...Owner Roarty tries to kill his philandering barman Eamonn Bales with a toadstool omelet. When the poison fails, the publican does in the cad with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...