ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.message-squaremessage-square109fedilinkarrow-up1282arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1261arrow-down1message-squareI wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square109fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareShaggyBlarney@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down3·1 month agoMushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.
minus-squarekn33@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·1 month agoYup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don’t exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don’t exist.
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoCulinary definition doesn’t differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.
minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 month agoSeparate culinary definitions? That’s nuts!
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.