Monolithic Black Fungi From Yuggoth

(X-Files fungal infection...or too much MSG?)

Today while shopping at the Asian market here in my hometown (among other things, my wife Hong bought ten one-pound bags of MSG…mmm!) I picked up and examined a product which in translation read “Monolithic Black Fungus.” Yikes — does that sound ominous or what? Like something out of either an H. P. Lovecraft or Jeff VanderMeer story. A quick online search lead me only to “toxic black mold,” which is scary too but not the same. I didn’t buy the Monolithic Black Fungus…though I suppose it couldn’t be any worse than ten pounds of MSG.

(And here’s a bonus for you…an f–ing trippy corporate video about black fungus…or maybe eating magic mushrooms, or something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG8bFVzDfzM)