I'm getting asked about eating myconids. Dance with them! Don't gobble them up. #DnD pic.twitter.com/FV3n8vrcF9

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 22, 2018

Gary Gygax and I did an entire panel at a convention about this. We didn't intend to when we started, but, well, our tongues ran away with us. ;}
Shock, horror, I know, but it happens.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 23, 2018