got talking to a bus driver today and started talking about how even fruit + veg are being processed now.
he asked me if i knew why the mushrooms at the supermarket manage to become so white in colour.
his friend who works in a food processing plant told him they use chlorine on the mushrooms, hence the bleached colour.
thinking now, maybe best to grow my own or buy organic fruit +veg.
As previously mentioned, the mushroom industry has avoided the use of contact with water and a literature survey indicates several unsuccessful attempts in obtaining cleaner mushrooms. Treatment with chlorinated water alone will not prevent fresh mushrooms from darkening. In a cannery, chlorinated wash-water by itself is used for cleaning mushrooms primarily prior to the heating operations. Under these conditions darkening or chemical injury is of no great concern since heat treatment will, in any event, cause a similar darkened product. Mushrooms for the fresh market can not tolerate any darkening. Mushrooms receiving the sulfur dioxide treatment alone appear whiter but such treatment does not have the cleaning and sanitizing effect of a chlorine wash hence, mushrooms treated solely with sulfur dioxide get mushier during subsequent storage. In view of the above, the two chemical treatments are combined to achieve highly desirable and unexpected results.
You know why they do it, don't you? The chlorine combines with fluoride in the drinking water to form chlorine trifluoride, which combines with the water itself to form hydrofluoric acid. This was being fabricated by the Germans in the second world war as a poison gas!!!111!!! That's right, the government is trying to poison us!!!!11.
i hope you are not trying to take the Micky Legion.
i only got 20 percent for high-school physics and i need some more info.
sure the Doc or Flysurfer can re-assure me.
It's a bit more chemistry, but yes he is pulling your leg.
The fluoride in our drinking water is actually fluoride ions which in this state are highly nonreactive and would most likely need a catalyst and a lot of energy provided ie electrolysis for the reaction to occur
Came across some mushrooms growing in the garden after all the rain. They were white too! Damn chemtrails... 
I came across some mushrooms growing somewhere too... I eated them, they did make me see colours... prrrrreeeeettttyyyy colours, and flying pink elephants and chem trails
the mushies i get from the local iga still have poo on them and they are white.
Does this mean that the poo is not washed in the stuff cause its still there AND its still cow poo colour!
They must be part of a mushroom sauce too of course.
NNNNNnnnnnnooooooooooooooOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!!! Never wash mushrooms! 
They soak up the water and that'll reduce the flavour. Learn to enjoy the poo... it's good for you. Loaded with B12 after all - and that helps stop the hangover from the red wine that goes with it all. 
Never wash mushrooms!
ooooooooo i did a great onion, mushy, garlic and worsteschererereererereerrrchere in olive oil thing over my tbone last week. with a glass of peppery red.
i now have a hairy chest.
did not get any chlorine taste though.
when they have a batch going cheap in the shop , I buy a few kg and just put them on the windowsill to dry. they dry in a few days and can be kept in the cupboard then when I have a dish for mushrooms , you just drop em in whole and the swell up again
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if you dry the big ones on a sheet of paper , you get spores dropping of, you then put the paper in the garden and cover in some fresh herbivore poo and voila , mushies in the garden
