How popular are mushrooms in the US?

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1. I actually have a bunch of baby bella, lions mane etc in my fridge.

   Lions mane makes for some really[ ‘meaty’ texture.](https://tabula.civitat.es/images/2023/09/19/6RWr.png)

   I used to really dislike mushrooms, then I realized that I wasn’t actually eating decent, fresh ones. Now I eat them often. They go in stews, yachaejeon, random ‘mushroom meats’ etc

2. Reasonably, just usually as a “cooked with” not a “main item” type of food.

   Example: steak cooked with mushrooms and onions.

3. Very common as a supplement to dishes, rarely the main idea of the dish.

4. Some people love them, some people hate them. Fairly common though I suppose.

5. There seem to me to be three types of mushroom people:

   You have your fanatics, the people that will forage through the woods looking for wild mushrooms. They have probably poisoned themselves at least once

   Grocery store mushroom people AKA Mushroom ninjas, who only will buy them at the grocery store and they also will sneak them into things you don’t expect mushrooms to be in.

   Then there are people like me, who are good, reasonable people who would not consume something that lives off of decay.

6. You seem like a fun-guy

7. Pretty popular. The grocery store I shop at has several varieties. My wife loves to them sautéed in butter with her steaks.

8. Are we talking magic or shitake?

9. Lots of people eat mushrooms. I cooked some just last week

10. Probably sonething I eat at least weekly, although usually as a side, rarely the focus of the meal.

11. I feel this has to be said in every mushroom thread: if you are visiting or just moved here from another country please do not go mushroom picking. The poisonous mushrooms will be just similar enough to what you know to make sure you die a slow and painful death.

12. I much prefer it when a burger restaurant has a portobello mushroom as their vegetarian option instead of one of those “house made black bean burgers” that fall apart just lifting them up to eat.

13. Very. Whether you’re talking about the food or the drug, both are common. The food is especially common on pizza or with steak

14. The only way I eat mushrooms is if they are prescribed by a friend.

15. I don’t know about popular, but very common.
    We like them with steak, on burgers, on pizza, on salads.
    We eat a lot of international food so we like enoki mushrooms.
    Portobello mushrooms are a somewhat common meat substitute for vegetarians

    Any supermarket will have a few varieties of mushrooms.

16. Mushrooms are common in American food. Sauteed mushrooms and Swiss cheese is a classic combination.

17. They are fairly popular. You’ll find them in every grocery store. It’s a very popular pizza topping. You’ll find them as dishes or part of dishes in many restaurants.

    I’m personally not a fan due to the texture, but that is not the norm here.

18. If we’re talking psilocybin, they’re extremely common here in Colorado. Almost everyone I know is at least micro dosing. They’re de-criminalized and very easy to get.

19. “Mushroom hunting” for Morels is very popular in my area during the springtime.

20. We always have some around, pretty common ingredients, go well with pasta, beef, eggs, and chicken, which are all staples.

21. People spend entire weekends in the spring hunting for Morels, those are pretty popular here.

22. I don’t have them every week, but it’s quite common I have some in my fridge. Most likely uses: salads, omelettes, stew ingredient, topping for burger or steak, or veggie plate item to dip in hummus or ranch dressing.

    The psychedelic shrooms I have never done.

23. Very!

24. For food or as psychadelics? I’ll answer as if you meant either:

    -Foodwise, pretty common. I mean, if you can get ’em on pizza or hamburgers pretty much anywhere there’s a chain, that’s about as common as it’s gonna get.

    -Psychedelics: I’ve never seen it. I know they exist, and I keep seeing Redditors insist it’s everywhere, but I see Redditors insist a lot of things are everywhere that are more like “their interests and the frequency-illusion” than “actually everywhere”.

25. I literally have portabella mushrooms like once per day

26. Psilocybin mushrooms are very popular with this American.

    Wait, what kind of mushrooms? 😅

27. I don’t like mushrooms, but most restaurants have mushrooms in various dishes. Here in the Mid-West, people forage for morels in the spring (March-April, typically).

28. Common enough that there are several varieties in almost every grocery store.

    But like almost anything there are people that like mushrooms and some that don’t and it often changes over time. My sister used to hate them but she’s come around. I think my mom just wasn’t great at using mushrooms when we were kids even though she’s a great cook otherwise.

    So with something like 330 million people there’s bound to be some variability.

    Personally I love mushrooms but some people or restaurants do a shit job with them.

29. – Mushrooms on pizza.

    – Champiñones al ajillo

    – Green bean casserole

    – Pasta sauce ingredient

    – Sauteed green beans and mushrooms

    – Garlic sauteed mushrooms

    – Mushrooms and Gruyere on a burger or patty melt

    – If you let them get big enough, we change their name to portobello, and that can be a patty instead of meat.

    – Scores of Chinese dishes.

    – Canned, fresh, fresh and sliced.

    Lots and lots of mushrooms.

30. Very popular. I hate them.

31. I love mushrooms. Good stores (such as whole foods) even have good sized mushroom sections with a decent variety. I like them in most foods lol.

    I’ve tried psychedelic shrooms (golden teacher) and didn’t really like it the 3 times I tried it so I can’t tell you how easy they are to get.

32. You can get fresh and dried mushrooms in basically any grocery, even rural ones.

33. I know just as many people who like them as hate them. If you’re ordering pizza for a party, it’s best to leave off the mushrooms, but I’ve made mushroom soup that’s been a hit at potlucks.

34. There are stores that sell magic mushroom chocolate bars all over NYC. I used to just buy dried up shrooms and eat them straight up. Most I’ve done was maybe a gram and change if not 2 grams worth

    I used to know a couple people who were into tripping on shrooms but I always preferred acid.

    As for regular mushrooms I only really eat them if someone orders pizza with it. I guess I’d eat them in other dishes especially since I want to eat less meat and maybe eventually try a vegetarian diet.

    Both magic and standard mushrooms are pretty popular

35. Nowhere close to Eastern Europe, probably comparable to the rest of Europe. Mushroom hunting is a part of the general fringe hobby of foraging rather than a near-universal seasonal activity.

36. Kennet Square, PA is the self-proclaimed “Mushroom Capital of the World”

    They’ve got festivals and mushroom-themed gift shops and stuff. Nice little town. I remember reading they produce like half of all mushrooms grown in the US in that county alone. I live like 25min away and can smell it when they get new compost if the winds are right.