Can you imagine this as a punishment or execution method? Like, you committed some terrible crime or were on the wrong end of a feud, and now you are forced to eat a mushroom, wait two or three days, then get force fed (or even unknowingly fed!) the next one. Then you have some shalman/stone-age-food-scientist recording what happens.
This is not quite true because “dose makes the poison”. Foragers would have protocols to evaluate just by dosing. You can safely lick most berries and mushrooms and use that as a strong identifier.
Imagine the first person to make bread. Do you know how much shit has to go right in the perfect amounts and time for it to work?
I’m pretty sure that last one explains why they kept coming back to them.
Me playing Vintage Story:
1 God Shroom Please!
