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[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fungi only got its own kingdom in 1969, before that they were a phylum in Plantae. There are tons of people still around who learned "mushrooms are plants" in school, so it's not surprising downstream vocabulary hasn't caught up.

[–] Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk that food vernacular is necessarily downstream of rigorous taxonomies at all lol.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Fair point haha.