Coated in spiny bumps and warts, this spiky little lollypop is the Lycoperdon perlatum, considered to be a good edible mushroom that you can batter in egg and breadcrumbs and fry like popcorn shrimp. Mostly known as the gem-studded puffball, some call them the warted puffball, or poor man's sweetbread, or the devil's snuff-box, or... wolf farts. Who's hungry for some deep-fried wolf farts? Anyone?

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