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Why DIY Magic Mushroom Growers are Gathering in an Uncle Ben’s Rice Subreddit

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday July 04 2020, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the for-science dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://uproxx.com/life/diy-magic-mushrooms-uncle-ben/

There's a subreddit for just about everything, but if you're a legit Uncle Ben's fan who is also a serious Redditor (that's a lonely island), you might be disappointed to find that the subreddit r/UncleBens isn't so much a gathering of hardcore pre-cooked rice fans, as it is an online sub-community of DIY psilocybin cultivators who are using Uncle Ben's and other supermarket staples to grow magic mushrooms.

[...] What makes Uncle Bens the perfect vessel for psilocybin, according to the r/UncleBens crew, is that mushroom cultivation "requires a sterile, nutrient-rich environment in which their spores can grow," and since Uncle Ben's rice is pre-cooked, sterilized and vacuum-sealed, it provides the necessary environment for cultivation.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @08:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 04 2020, @08:48PM (#1016238)

    I went in with a backpack on a couple weeks ago and didn't get any grief. I pulled a reusable bag out of the backpack at self checkout and used that too. Maybe they just don't care anymore.