“Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that make you die a miserable death?”
Please answer.
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Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Some moulds are totally fine, see blue cheese. Some mycelium schlongs are dangerous, see death caps.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
You can also put mold on meat. Lot trickier, but the famous Hungarian salami Téliszalámi (Winter Salami) is done like that.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
“Mycelium schlong”
Linguistic creativity at its best.
match@pawb.social 16 hours ago
See also other soft cheeses like brie
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
No one:
Everyone: adds a pointless “No one:” above perfectly valid memes
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
And on top of that, a pointless Twitter comment.
I swear, every meme nowadays is three levels of reaction deep.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
But how will i drive engagement to my shitter page if i don’t slap my username on every meme I find?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
POV: Someone added a useless “no one” to their meme
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 1 day ago
POV: you’re the other person watching someone else do the action being described
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 day ago
This one grinds my gears too because it doesn’t even make sense.
“No one said nothing” is a double negative. Shouldn’t it be
Everyone:
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Or just
(awkward) silence
Meron35@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Humans: 🤮 Human genitalia: 🍆💨👃🤤
the_artic_one@programming.dev 1 day ago
Most molds are about as closely related to mushrooms as flatworms are to humans
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not to be confused with ringworms which are, in fact, a mold.
the_artic_one@programming.dev 1 day ago
Or slime molds which are, in fact, an ameoba.
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
And humans are more closely related to mushrooms than plants!
herrwoland@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“why is that we eat the fruit and not the tree?”
RobotFK@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Cinnamon
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Maple syrup
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Why apple but not apple seed
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
i eat the apple seeds, coward
dies
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The Roquefort (French blue cheese) is made from the mold that grows on rye bread.
So even the moldy bread, in the right condition, can become a delicacy.
Taleya@aussie.zone 17 hours ago
lactobacillus is everywhere. Truly the king of kings.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yo, thank you to yogurt, sourdough, and various fermented beverages. Bless.
interpolate@lemm.ee 16 hours ago
On typing this out, I’m suddenly concerned about this being offensive or blatantly false. I never applied critical thought to the story before, as I’m pretty sure I was told it as a relatively young, and more relevantly gullible, young man.
Is it true that this mold played a role in the “witches ride broomsticks” stereotype?
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
It sounds like a few different things got mashed together there. Ergot is a hallucinogenic fungus that grows on rye, and is speculated to be the cause of some of the witch panics. It’s not the same fungus found in Roquefort, but it is what they use to make LSD.
Witches flying is hypothesized to be entheogen use, since a common side effect is feelings of floating, flying, or otherwise ‘being high’.
AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The fungus you’re thinking of is likely ergot, because it shows up in pretty large volume in batches of rye.
In processing, it ends up as a dark purple/black dried up mass that assumes kinda a crescent shape. Mills will run a batch of rye through a color-sorter - a bunch of times consecutively - to reduce the amount of ergot in the batch before milling.
You can technically refine it into LSD, but if you screw up, you can kill people. (Morning Glories are the preferred method).
The number of 55-gallon drums of ergot I’ve disposed of, though… It’s difficult not to identify with Walter White and wonder… “what if?”
MTK@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Both are pictures of genitalia, one of them is just really really small, microscopic even, so you are being very insensitive towards the microscopic genitalia.
Nfamwap@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I feel seen
Wetstew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It doesn’t need to be big to do it’s job!😡
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Whoa there… We eat mold too if they’re the right type and on the right things.
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
*Blu cheese has entered the chat*
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Blue cheese would like a word.
NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Wait I thought mushrooms were the flowers… Or are you telling me that flowers are also genitals!!! 💥
echodot@feddit.uk 21 hours ago
Flowers are flowers genitals as well.
NotLemming@lemm.ee 17 hours ago
So they’re manspreading
StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yep lol just wait till you find out what pollen is analogous too lol
NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 day ago
So bees are slutty sex pests and fly around covered in plant cum…
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Poppycock.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This bacterium gives me the sniffles. This other bacterium liquefies and eats my muscles. But if I don’t have enough of this other bacterium in me, I get violent explosive shits??
Gladaed@feddit.org 1 day ago
If the french eat frogs that’s fine, but when the south Americans do it everyone loses their minds.
(Poison dart frogs)
sunbather@beehaw.org 1 day ago
the difference between eating mushrooms and eating mold is the difference between oral sex and vore
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Wait am I supposed to just motion the mushroom in and out repeatedly then once it shrivels, the job is done?
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Cheese and yoghurt enter the chat.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day ago
laughs in alcohol
wittycomputer@feddit.org 1 day ago
I prefer calling it flowers than genitallia
VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Some women also call it their flowers and yeah I go down on flowers. :finger-guns:
Umbrias@beehaw.org 1 day ago
tomato tomato
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Srsly? It’s pretty simple - some forms of mold are delicious and others aren’t.
Here’s another mystery to ponder: Why do people generally love having sex but hate mowing the lawn, even if they involve the same amount of effort? Have fun.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 day ago
There’s housework that involves lying down while someone else puts in all the effort?
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ya it’s called affording a maid
mrmule@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Kombucha and sourdough bread have now entered the chat.
NotLemming@lemm.ee 1 day ago
My babies! Also don’t forget kefir, my third child.
Floshie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
basically the same thing with men
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not a big fan of male genitalia tbh
azi@mander.xyz 1 day ago
vanilla
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
natecox@programming.dev 1 day ago
Fuck, I remember Gumby. What happened to that guy?
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I dunno. I miss him, though… and his pony pal Pokey, too.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 day ago
For a costume event, I got a Gumby outfit and put a gladiator shirt over it. I don’t think anybody got it.
whostosay@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you keep eating it, you’ll have to change your name to ShartEatingBreakfast
SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Does it make your guts rumble, fr??
JoShmoe@ani.social 1 day ago
I’ve been sucking off genitalia this whole time?!
zippythezigzag@lemm.ee 1 day ago
“Has entered the chat” has entered the chat.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“mould” vs “would”
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Peniciline
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s mould? I know what mold is.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death. The remaining 1% tastes good with butter.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not quiet
98.99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death, 1% tastes good with butter. The the remaining 0.01% is estimated to have saved over half a billion lives.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 day ago
And 0.00001% makes me see and feel funny things
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Pretty sure the antibiotics also taste good with butter.
sploosh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And then there are the few lucky people who die a whole lot faster if they take that .01%
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Ah, so there are 3 options- discomfort, death, and nutrition. Therefore, every time you eat a fungus, you have a 1/3 chance of dying. Thanks for the info!
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
NotHowStatisticsWork
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Or when growing in cheese.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Cheese also tastes good with butter.