I overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it's fine, those are plants”.
No amount of convincing worked.
So I've seen it once.
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I overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it's fine, those are plants”.
No amount of convincing worked.
So I've seen it once.
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.
If anything is close to having a consciousness and experiencing an array of emotion, including suffering. That's a mushroom, much more than a plant.
The mycelium, maybe. That is definitely not the part of the mushroom that you eat.
Actual animals are far more likely to feel pain that fungi. Do fungi even have a nervous system?
Fungi are a nervous system.
We actually suspect they do. They can also display intelligent behavior, from a certain definition of the concept.
Pluto is a mushroom
No, Pluto is a plant.
No. Pluto is an animal.
Source: Disney Wiki
Is he though? He’s anthropomorphic, speaks clear English, and owns a dog.
Pluto is an animal-shaped person.
Wait no that’s Goofy. Pluto is an animal owned by an animal-shaped person!
I think an issue here is that taxonomic and colloquial definitions don't always agree.
Spiders are colloquially bugs, but they're not taxonomically "true bugs" (which is itself a colloquialism for Hemiptera). Tomatos are colloquially vegetables but taxonomically fruits...but afaik vegetable is a purely colloquial term anyway.
And as someone else in the thread mentioned, colloquial berries are not always taxonomic berries.
So...colloquially, "plants" sorta means, "macroscopic multicellular living non-animal thing," but taxonomically it's something else.
Similarly, “a planet” can be understood in technical or colloquial context which changes the meaning. It can have a specific meaning or a vague flexible meaning, just like with berries.
BTW raspberries are my favorite berries… sort of. Watermelons are pretty good too.
If you’re talking about tomatoes, the difference is the context, and it isn’t a choice between colloquial vs scientific taxonomy, but between culinary/nutritional vs botany/taxonomy (and). You can talk about either in a colloquial context or a formal context, though generally there isn’t much reason to talk about botany in a colloquial setting.
From a nutritional perspective, mushrooms are generally considered vegetables, too.
afaik vegetable is a purely colloquial term anyway.
I thought you were wrong but I looked it up and I appear to have been mistaken. It makes “tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables” sound nonsensical, as it implies that “vegetable” is a different taxonomical option, when really it’s just a word for objects with a particular collection of traits that are relevant in a different context. What we should he saying is “While tomatoes are not fruit in the food pyramid, taxonomically, they are.” Doesn’t really roll off the tongue, though. Maybe “Tomatoes are vegetables AND fruits!” would solve that?
but what about berry club? which things count as berries now?
Fuck you op. Mushrooms are plants, Pluto is a planet, and that's the truth from one edge of this flat Earth to the other.
~disclaimer: this is a joke~
Honestly? Flat earth? It's not even funny as a joke. That entire movement has been so incredibly detrimental, and dangerous. It has shattered families, and been an instruction manual for other conspiracy theorists. And the worst thing of all is that it makes actual, real facts about how the earth is in, in reality, a hollow shell with a breathable atmosphere in its inferior, come across as just as crazy as flat earth. How are we supposed to spread the truth of hollow earth when flat earthers are out there making us look crazy? Just because hollow earth also points out that the government is lying about the earth doesn't mean we're the same! People need to know about hollow earth! Otherwise, we'll never be able to heal the housing market by building condos inside the earth!
I bet they don't think Atlantis existed, either...
It's not a plant or an animal, but a secret third thing.
They're ~~fungi~~ fun guys.
If Pluto is a planet, then Ceres is a planet too. CERES RIGHTS!
Let's just acknowledge that anything big enough to be round is a planet. That's the bare minimum criteria.
Orbit shapes and clear paths don't matter, the Solar system isn't a typical stellar system, many aren't so stable and ordered, especially in binary and triplet star systems. So the pedantry around the shapes of the orbits of the outer kuiper planets is a very silly thing to argue about. After all most orbits in binary and triplet systems aren't even predictable long term, let alone not circular.
So that makes Earth and Moon a binary planet system. I'm cool with that
Thanks plants vs zombies 😡😡
I've met people who were certain that bugs weren't animals
Hell I've met people that don't think humans are animals
Interestingly people who don't understand they are animals are the least human
Pluto is a planet, though. It’s officially considered a “dwarf” planet, and as “dwarf” is just an adjective, it’s still a planet (just like a short person is still a person). The other 8 new dwarf planets (Ceres, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Gonggong, Quaoar, Orcus, and Sedna) are also all planets - so we have 17 planets total.
Seriously, though. By the same 3 criteria that Pluto isn’t a planet, Mercury isn’t (as it isn’t in hydrostatic equilibrium).
"GET MY PLANET'S NAME OUTTA YO MOUTH!"
The definition of planet is completely subjective, whereas the definition of mushroom is based on science and evolution.
From what I've seen, dudes that care that much about mushrooms are really fun guys.
...this would trigger a friend of mine so badly (fungi enthusiast and Pluto stan). I want to send it, but at the same time... I'm not sure I'd hear the end of it.
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I think OP is on mushrooms.
Fun fact: mushrooms are closer to the animal kingdom than to the plant kingdom.
Yeah but we're not eating the whole thing we're just eating its sex organ
Well they use chitin not celulose for structure so definatly closer to animals than plants.
Similarly plate tectonics - not fully recognised until the 60s apparently.