Re: Intergermansk - Pizza packaging text :D

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 02:49:49 -0500, Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> wrote:

> The first and only place I've ever heard 'champignon' in English was on Iron
> Chef, where the dubbed-over English commentators use "champignon mushrooms"
> for the white/button mushrooms (they use a lot of more exotic shrooms on
> that show). Maybe in the original Japanese, "champinyon" or something
> similar is used for that mushroom.
>
I giggle everytime they say "Champignon mushroom" since like I said in
an earlier post, it's pretty much redundant, as the word means
"mushroom" in French (Yes, I understand, it's terminology for the
white button mushroom in English). Incidentally i've eaten all of the
mushrooms they've ever used except the phallic shaped matsutake



>
> I thought a crimini was an immature portobello (criminis're small but
> brown); as for the mature version of button, I've only ever seen that a few
> times in Chinese supermarkets, labelled "moon-bello".
They are, but all of them are just varieties of the white button
mushroomm which is why I used the backslashes. It's sort of like Navel
Vs. Trovita Vs. Blood oranges. All oranges, but slightly different.  I
think "moon-bello" is more of a marketing ploy.

Mushroom varieties are pretty common in supermarkets here:

Morels
Chaterelle
Oyster
Shitake
Button
Portobello
Crimini
Enoki

One edible mushroom which causes problems for our native oaks is
Armillaria mellea , the Honey Mushroom, which takes advantage of oaks
that are given too much water (although this can indicate a tree dying
from another pathogen)





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