@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months agoI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.message-square107fedilinkarrow-up1293file-text
arrow-up1293message-squareI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.@[email protected] to [email protected] • 3 months agomessage-square107fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish71•3 months agoMushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish51•3 months agoYup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don’t exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don’t exist.
minus-squareFonzie!linkfedilink13•3 months agoCulinary definition doesn’t differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.
Mushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.
Yup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don’t exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don’t exist.
Culinary definition doesn’t differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.
Separate culinary definitions? That’s nuts!
But not peanuts, which are legumes.
Or the stone fruit, coconuts.