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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.
Separate culinary definitions? That's nuts!
But not peanuts, which are legumes.
Or the stone fruit, coconuts.