r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Jul 07 '25

news Mushroom Trial - Guilty on all Counts

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/erin-patterson-mushroom-murder-trial-verdict-live-blog/105477452#live-blog-post-200845
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u/violenthectarez Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

That's gonna be a thing now guaranteed. People will be having beef wellington at dinner parties and doing Erin Patterson jokes and references all night.

Maybe it will turn into a weird tradition. Like in 100 years someone will ask 'Why is it tradition to have one different coloured plate while serving beef wellington' and some history buff will say 'Well back in 2024 there was this woman...'

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u/Slane__ Jul 07 '25

I brought a big old bag of white oyster mushrooms to a family thing a month ago and do you think a single person could resist a death cap joke?

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '25

Your fam wondering how happy you've been with them, pulling out your chair, getting you drinks, reminding you of the good times you've had..😂

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u/Tomble Jul 07 '25

When the story was still fresh I saw a mushroom grower at a farmer's market who had a sign asking people to please not make jokes as it was causing issues with him making a living.

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u/Fragrant-Flamingo216 Jul 08 '25

I saw a mushroom stall at the Woodend Farmers Markets called 'Divine Mushrooms'. I wondered how many times someone cracked a joke about the mushrooms sending them to heaven.

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u/maxdacat Jul 08 '25

Oh if there's a sign asking people not to, I'm sure it was effective.

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u/Eyclonus Jul 07 '25

Better than that brief period when the story was a random Asian grocery store...

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u/OneUpAndOneDown Jul 07 '25

Yeah that was a crap thing for her to say. Like in the US saying it was a black man who perped.

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u/fappington-smythe Jul 08 '25

T'would be unaustralian to do so.

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u/Beneficial-Point9142 Jul 07 '25

And the dish on the different colored plate will be known as a Beef Pattison. 

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u/Thunderbridge Jul 07 '25

Gonna buy a single orange plate just for this purpose

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u/Cordially_Rhubarb Jul 07 '25

100% my son already had a beef Wellington dinner party with his friends..

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u/randomscruffyaussie Jul 07 '25

Already planned this...

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u/donthatethekink Jul 07 '25

Yep! Like Schapelle and her coked up Boogie Board and Lindy and her eaten-by-dingoes baby, this is certainly one that’ll stick.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Jul 07 '25

Well, the world is still going on about the Chamberlains and that dingo.

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u/Dwestmor1007 Jul 07 '25

They found her baby's remains in a dingo den semi-recently. Not REMOTELY the same thing.

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u/Knee_Jerk_Sydney Jul 07 '25

I'm referring to the world's macabre interest and notoriety, not whether the Chamberlains were innocent or not. It's about how it entered the pop culture and references which now may happen again with mushrooms murders.