NYT publishes Mushroom Wellington recipe and Aussies respond as expected

Tell me you're an Aussie, without telling me you're an Aussie.

That was the unspoken challenge issued to Australians in the comments section of a New York Times Facebook post of a recipe called “This Vegetarian Mushroom Wellington is a crowd pleaser.”

The recipe is meant as an alternative dish to the traditional turkey for Americans' upcoming Thanksgiving celebrations. 

But that's not how it was taken by anyone with Aussie links, thanks to the recipe's origins; namely, the classic Beef Wellington.

What's so funny about a Beef Wellington? 

Very sadly, a woman named Erin Patterson used poisonous mushrooms in a Beef Wellington dish that she served to four elderly relatives, three of whom died, leaving the last one desperately ill.

The ‘mushroom murderer’ was this year given three consecutive life sentences for her fatal use of carefully-sourced ‘death-cap’ mushrooms.

So, with justice rightly delivered, once-horrified Australians decided they can now do what they do best - take the piss out of things.

"Broke my ankle running to the comments”

The comments section has more than 4000 posts, most of which did not disappoint, and would make you proud to be an Australian.

They included:

"I hope you followed the Australian version, I hear it's a real killer."

'“Broke my ankle running to the comments.”

“I’m in Australia and I imagine if we invited people over for dinner and told them this was on the menu no one would turn up .”

Then there was this wise advice: “Remember to colour-code the plates”; a reference to the different plates Patterson chillingly used to serve a separate dish to her children at the same time.

Finally, this person shared the ultimate Aussie idea: “I think we should rename the dish to a 'Beef Patterson'.”

Now that is from a future Australian of the Year.