mushroom... coffee?

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As you all know, I bring home free things from work when they're being discarded from inventory. Recently I found several bags of ground coffee in the discards area, but this was no ordinary coffee -- it was organic Peruvian coffee with FUNCTIONAL MUSHROOMS. You read that right. It was ground coffee with ground mushrooms mixed in. Weird as that sounds, I couldn't pass up a free pound of coffee, so I got a single bag of it. Mushrooms are supposed to be great for our bodies in regards to stress and cortisol regulation, so it at least couldn't hurt to drink them in coffee form (especially since no one in the house has a mushroom allergy). I figured if I hated it, I could just throw it out and not be out any money. As it turns out, it doesn't taste particularly mushroomy, at least not this brand. If someone had served the coffee to me without telling me it had mushrooms in it, I wouldn't be able to tell much of a difference. If anything, the mushrooms might add a bit more depth of flavor, but it still just tastes like a cup of coffee. Have you ever had mushroom coffee? Would you try it?