AgentOrangesicle

Those chanterelles, tho.

The fungus you’re thinking of is likely ergot, because it shows up in pretty large volume in batches of rye.

In processing, it ends up as a dark purple/black dried up mass that assumes kinda a crescent shape. Mills will run a batch of rye through a color-sorter - a bunch of times consecutively - to reduce the amount of ergot in the batch before milling.

You can technically refine it into LSD, but if you screw up, you can kill people. (Morning Glories are the preferred method).

The number of 55-gallon drums of ergot I’ve disposed of, though… It’s difficult not to identify with Walter White and wonder… “what if?”

Yo, thank you to yogurt, sourdough, and various fermented beverages. Bless.

Sometimes big life decisions come easy. Sometimes small life decisions come hard (no double entendre intended). As long as they’re both on the same page when it comes to commitment, hopefully the concerns you mentioned don’t apply to them and we can feel happy about it as a third-party spectator.