Index – Abroad – The US Treasury Secretary ate “magic mushrooms” and created a fad

Back in early July, Janet Yellen took part in a four-day trip to Beijing with the goal of easing tensions between the world’s two major powers. After the meeting, he spoke optimistically.

It now turns out that the magic mushrooms he ate during the visit may have played a role in his good mood. “We were with a large group and the order was made by the person who organized the whole dinner.

I had a delicious mushroom dish, but I didn’t know that these mushrooms have hallucinogenic effects. I found out later

Yellen A. called CNNIn an interview on Monday.

As it turns out, the mushroom pot was also part of a type of mushroom, Lanmaoa asiatica, native to southeastern China, whose surface turns blue when rubbed or cut. These mushrooms are considered a gourmet food and can indeed be hallucinogenic, but only if they are not thoroughly cooked.

However, the restaurant staff previously announced that CNN On his inquiry about this happening, the Minister of Finance confirmed that. After a reporter asked her how she knew she had eaten the hallucinogenic mushrooms, Janet Yellen laughed and said:

I can assure you that none of us were affected by the fungus.

He added that he was sure the restaurant staff cooked all the mushrooms very well, and aside from the fact that they were very tasty, they hadn’t tried anything else.

The finance minister’s mushroom-eating avalanche began

Janet Yellen was reported eating mushrooms on the popular Chinese social network Weibo. Along with a picture of the dinner and a separate hashtag, the news started spreading on the social networking site, and as a result, interest in the mushroom dish he ate grew rapidly in a short period of time.

The chain of restaurants, where the Secretary of Finance and the American delegation dined, reported shortly after that many of their restaurants had run out of this food within hours. In their post published a few weeks later, they wrote that there was still a very high demand for mushrooms, which is why they had to reassign staff from the restaurant chain’s finance, marketing, and human resources departments to “mushroom slices.”

Interestingly, scientists have not yet been able to determine which ingredient in Lanmaoa asiatica can exert a hallucinogenic effect if not cooked properly.

It remains a mystery and most of the evidence is based on hearsay. I have a friend who accidentally ate it and had hallucinations for about three days afterward

Peter Mortimer, a professor at the Kunming Botanical Institute, told CNN about this.