>>2618912All the major deadly and poisonous mushroom mycotoxins like alpha-amanitin, muscarine, gyromitrin, orellanine, and ergotamine must be metabolized to be dangerous, so just tasting them isn't immediately dangerous. You can take a lil' nibble of a Death Cap and be fine. Actually, it takes about half a Death Cap to kill you, so you could probably swallow the little nibble too and escape with most of your liver.
Learning and researching these mushrooms, even just looking at Wikipedia, will give you the information you need to stop being so afraid of mushrooms. This guy
>>2618874 is right, make the unknown known and it won't be scary anymore.
