Meanwhile, just a quickie....
A friend of mine decided to indulge himself with one of Indonesia's strangest contradictions...Magic Mushrooms! Extremely psychotropic yet legal!
A batch of the said fungals was obtained in Bali and brought back to Jakarta for use last weekend. In order to maintain thier state of freshness they were put in the fridge with a large label marked "Do not cook" (In Bahasa Indonesian) attached to the pack.
The plan was to get a group of friends together on Saturday, head out into the country and consume said mushrooms and "enjoy" nature at it's best.
Friday being Friday, it was a night out at the pub and then, as he had plans for Saturday my friend decided to return home at a reasonable hour in readiness for his one way ticket to heaven.
Upon his return, he heard a strange wailing and moaning from upstairs. Unsure of what was going on he made his way to the first floor to discover that the place had been trashed and his maid was present in her praying outfit bouncing up and down on her prayer mat.....
His first thoughts were that the place had been burgled but, as the story unfolded he discovered himself to be in a very sticky position.
It turns out that the maid, an elderly lady had decided to cook my friend a nice steak dinner, and yes, you guessed it, a Mushroom Sauce to go with it. It appears the Mushroom Sauce was considered so good that the poor lady decided that a little would not go amiss and used some to accompany her own evening meal.
Apparently, about an hour after her meal, the drugs kicked in and she was convinced the devil had entered the house and that she had been possessed. In her battle with the demons inside her, she set about destroying the genies around her along with table lamps, ornaments and framed pictures which were smashed to release the spirits within.
My friends driver was summoned and the plan was to get her to a Mosque, have the Imam exorcise her and then take her safely to her families house so that she could recover with friends......which, unbelievably succeeded.
Only in Indonesia methinks!
Dilligaf, not wishing to be pedantic, but I'm pretty sure the photo is from Rudy's Bar, Gili Trawangan, not Bali. Then again, maybe you weren't using it to describe the purchase place and I should pull my head in. Mullet
ReplyDeleteAs always a little gem!!!!!
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My word Dilli - they get taller. Did a detailed essay on this back in 19-Canteen. Cooking with psilocybin above 40-60C will result in degradation to baeocystin, followed by degradation to an inactive compound. Even when tea is made in the UK (resulting in a class A) very cool water is used. The most unconvincing bit would be the maid and the steak dinner. @Anonymous, well anything sort of southeast of JKT is Bali to many bules so forgive him that. Still, glad she is better now.
ReplyDeleteThe lady in question has as far as I know recovered and her malaise was attributed to a mental breakdown.
ReplyDeleteAs to cooking above 40 degrees, I get the feeling she would do as most others do here. undercook and add Sambal to create the heat!
And yes, the mushrooms in question were bought in Gili Trawang but in order to avoid confusion among my non geographical readers I chose Bali as the nearest known reference point.
I'm glad you saw the fungicide!
Jesus, they get worse. Personally I think it was a dodgy tin of campbells sup jamur, and the Imam probably only exercised her - with the damage being the result of yet another wronged girlfriend with a stretched dubur seeking revenge for the damage to flange and reputation.
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