It was only in 1969 (nice) that fungi officially became its own separate kingdom.

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Mushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.

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Separate culinary definitions? That’s nuts!

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But not peanuts, which are legumes.

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Or the stone fruit, coconuts.

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Yup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don’t exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don’t exist.

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Culinary definition doesn’t differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.

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