I know that they have some toxicity in their raw form, but I believe that's the first time I've heard of someone getting that sick from them. It's interesting.

It was awful Big Sam!!! I cooked them well.

Makes me wonder how critters eat them and manage not to get sick….or maybe they do?

I don't cook them overly well. Just bread and fry in butter until golden. Never got sick and we gorge on them lol. Is it possible you had false morels in your batch last year?

Western Pennsylvania ?

Yummmmm pierogi.

I had a friend that ended up in the hospital from false morels.

Personally morels are not my favorite mushroom, they are alright, but chanterelles are what I really like. They are a fall mushroom though.

Chants are a fall mushroom there?? They come out in June here. I like both, but prefer morels just a bit.

The only people I know of getting sick on morels were from eating too many or having too much butter with them. Some times people are different though as far as how things set.

I'm in the camp wondering if a few false morels were in the mix. If so that could have been really bad.

Looking at the 10 day forecast here it looks like quite a bit of rain, if we get some heat it may be a decent year for morels. Unfortunately I don't have many good trees left where I go. Most are too far dead.