stackyFACTSFarming doesn't always happen in beautiful sunny fields. To get mass quantities of mushrooms, growers utilized creepy, damp, abandoned catacombs and railway tunnels beneath cities. They piled up endless mounds of horse manure in the pitch black to create a profoundly unappetizing underground vegetable empire.
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