Thinkgeek.com is selling what appears to be a real life 1up mushroom! They provide a pipe, a spore, and some mushroom “food solution.”
All you do is add potting soil to the green sewer-pipe-shaped flower pot, and push the spores deep into it. Soak the soil with water using the dropper, add a squirt of the food solution, and then it’s off to a dark location for a few weeks.
A still unanswered question remains: What happens if you eat it? I’m thinking either you’ll die instantly, or grow to enormous proportions (in your mind) and then die. I smell an impending lawsuit will happen when a kid decides to eat the mushroom (thinking he’s now got an extra life) and jumps off a cliff.
Even without eternal life-giving properties, I want this. Bad. I’ve already ordered 2 for myself.
They do point out that you shouldn’t eat it just yet.
And I think that they wouldn’t market it as food in the first place unless they had the intention of people consuming them… at some point.
Just… don’t eat it yet XD
lol, it’s obviously fake. I not only say that because it looks fake, but because that’s the only picture on the internet and another site said it’s fake, so I was fooled for a little bit. But I hella want on of those pipes so that I could color a mushroom and mess with my friends, or even better grow one of those kinds of mushrooms and color it as it grows.