[quote=“TheLostSwede”]Well, I’m partial, so I have to say Swede 
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are you excited about the first swede in space? flying vegetables
i would have to vote for Jia Lan. you know, chinese broccoli, Hong Kong stye in good oyster sauce. (But in Hong Kong its Gai Lan)
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Bestest vegetable? ya mean fer eatin’?
Whatever’s growin’ in the mother inlaw’s garden is what! Last month it was Okra. Goddamn if we didn’t eat two acres of the stuff at our house. 
Anyone here into picking wild mushrooms? I think I need to start.
Goddamn server. Getting worse and worse. Something needs to be done.
[quote=“sandman”]Me. Not here though.
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is that “hen of the woods”?
Hen of the woods? Nope. The pic below is hen of the woods, apparently. Not one I’ve heard of. The ones in my pic are chanterelle. Among the top three of wild shrooms along with morels and boletus.
Welsh mushrooms 
Chanterelles are great. I used to enjoy picking them in Northern Cal. My brother has them on his property near Seattle. And I believe we picked them when I was a kid in New England. I suspect they’re found throughout a large portion of the world where it’s not too hot and dry (as it may be in Taiwan – has anyone seen chanterelles here?).
I like them not only because they taste great but becasue they’re one of the few shrooms that I’m extremely confident about correctly identifying. My dad was a decent mushroom hunter and I remember reading in his books about all the possible harms if you eat the wrong one – nauseau, sweating, heart palpitations, blindness, convulsion, death, etc. But chanterelles are easy to spot.
EDIT: one weird item related to the above. I learned very clearly from my dad’s mushroom books that Amenita, with it’s red top, white spots and ring around the stem, is serious bad news. It causes all of the above harms, including death, and is one to avoid. So I was surprised, years later, to discover that some people intentionally eat small doses of Amenita in order to hallucinate. Fucking crazy if you ask me. I’ve eaten magic shrooms, but Amenita, no thanks.
I was walking on the back 40 of the farm in Vermont with a biologist friend of mine, who spied a “hen of the woods” by the side of the path. It was a monstrous thing, easily 1kg in weight, and when we got it back to the house and “slaughtered” it, the yield was enormous. Many, many little plastic bags went into the freezer that afternoon.
It seems China is the biggest consumer and exporter of wild mushrooms. Fun.
Some shrooms are way too expensive to purchase regularly; wild is the way to go. This could get dangerous. 
a typical disregard for wildlife from over there.
[quote=“Edgar Allen”]I like Tom Hill!
Can’t believe no one got there before me! Its gotta be a good day today, whoo hoo!!!
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Thank you. Thank you all. It’s nice to be noticed. We at Tom Hill accept the transition into vegetable status, and also accept the new ability to use the plural about ourselves.
We here like the butternut squash. It looks good ‘from the ground up,’ is versatile, tasty and full of nutrients. And what a colour. Ooh la la!
Are mushrooms vegetables?
Are French people? Your question makes no sense.
If okra and beets qualify, surely mushrooms should.
Nah, 'shrooms are 'shrooms, not veggies, but chantarelles fried with onions, pepper and salt with a dash of cream on a fresh piece of bread is hard to beat.
And yes, the first Swede in space is cool, but he’s the other kind of Swede
Ah yes. Vague memories of an extremely surreal drive from the Lake District to Inverness while locked in the embrace of an amanita fugue. Don’t mess with that stuff.
Giant redwoods.
clarku.edu/faculty/dhibbett/ … cetes.html
[quote]# In the Linnaean system, Fungi were included in the Plant Kingdom
Mushrooms are not vegetables, in fact, they belong to an entirely separate kingdom from plants and animals. However, I wonder how much resonance this observation will have in a country where tomatoes are fruits? By the way, a prune is not a vegetable… a cabbage is a vegetable, all you Zappa fans. I don’t think Tom Hill is a vegetable, he seems like a perfectly nice bloke to me.
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