Daily Prompt – June 30, 2026

I don’t know if love is the right word but I’ve definitely changed my opinion on mushrooms since I was a kid. I refused to eat them as a child. My mother swears I ate them when I was a baby but I’m not sure that counts because do we really have a sense of what we like and don’t like at that point? Anyway, About 11 or so years ago, I had a roommate who was a cook, like in a restaurant. Not quite a chef, though one of our good friends was a chef at the time. Anyway, he used to cook and he would use wild mushrooms instead of the standard white button mushrooms I was so used to. I started to learn how tasty they could be. I even started to enjoy those white button mushrooms. I still need them cooked, raw is a no go. But I was able to get past my “it’s a fungus, why would I eat fungus” mentality to be able to enjoy them.