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[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago

I just want to say thanks to the people who look at these kinds of things and think "I should probably check if this is delicious", because I would never acquire that information otherwise

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 38 points 9 months ago

I have a morbid dark humor, semi-serious theory that toddlers put everything in their mouth as an evolutionary poison testing system. You find out what is and isn't deadly poison, and you can always make more toddlers.

[-] aldalire@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 9 months ago

In the past people check if birds or other animals can eat it, and it’s a safe bet we could if they could

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago

Narrator: it was far from a safe bet

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago

Sounds like the sort of thing someone infected by brain fungus would say.

[-] putridfairytale@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago
[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago
[-] putridfairytale@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

I BROUGHT YOU THIS DELICIOUS ELOTE PLEASE YOU MUST TRY IT

[-] RION@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

Who need they fungussy ate

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

well when you say it like that...

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 9 months ago

What a delectable yeast infection

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago

You will eat the corn fungus and enjoy it.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 44 points 9 months ago
[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago
[-] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

I've always heard it's very good. I've never had a chance to try it. I used to be grossed out by the idea but I've sense embraced the zen of just eating anything that isn't actively poisonous because life is short and food is delicious.

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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago

i learned about huitlacoche in a plant disease class like a decade ago when learning about fungal disease cycles. still haven't had the opportunity to try it, but i would.

even ignoring the ethics, its far less weird, biologically, than feeding corn to ruminants and eating the products of that. it's using a living corn stalk as a substrate to cultivate fungal fruiting bodies. fungus are very efficient at turning complex structures into simple bioavailable nutrients.

you would know this instinctively if you had ҽαƚҽɳ ƚԋҽ ƚҽōɳαɳāƈαƚʅ αɳԃ ƚαʂƚҽԃ ιƚʂ ɱყʂƚҽɾιҽʂ

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 26 points 9 months ago
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[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 41 points 9 months ago

You will eat the corn smut

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago

the one kind of smut I'm volcel-judge for

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 20 points 9 months ago

This fungus-filled tumor is delicious.

Haha.

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The situation reminds me of a burl which is a tumor-like growth on trees. Burl wood can be beautiful. Here's a guitar as an example...

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

Burlwood is so gorgeous. And since you can get a potentially giant round lump of wood you can do things with it you can't do anywhere else. Burls, and their enormous potential economic value in the deeply weird society, are a big plot point in one of Niven's Ringworld books.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Lmao what? I'm going to have to read more of those

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure if it's the first or second one, but the characters had a whole neat idea about what you could do with a burl in the ring.

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Get this smut out of here! Volcel vanguard!

[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

My first instinct is that this is disgusting but the part of my brain that cares about facts & logic says that it's just a fungus. We eat plenty of those. Pretty sure there's also plenty of parasitic fungi we eat regularly.

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[-] beef_curds@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

There's a place near me that serves this, and I've always wanted to try it. The place is so expensive though.

[-] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

Delicious plant body horror.

[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

who tf found that shit and thought to themselves "I wonder what that fungus tumor tastes like?"

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago

It's just a mushroom. A fungal fruiting body.

[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago
[-] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

You shouldn't eat amanitas and you definitely shouldn't eat Destroying Angel, the most metal of all fungi.

[-] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

If you carefully learn what you are doing, there are many very delicious amanitas. I am particularly fond of amanita calyptoderma (cocorra) though I more frequently eat amanita vaginata (grissettes). the vaginata complex is fairly easy to id, though a. calyptoderma, a. Velosa and others that can be mistaken for the deadly amanitas you obviously should be much more careful about. I guess my advice would be learn what you are doing first, and learn to id all poisonous mushrooms in your area as well.

[-] Sinistar@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

TIL. I'm hoping to have a garden up and running this year with corn in it, maybe I'll get to try this.

[-] buh@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago
[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

im-vegan and I kinda wanna give this a try.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

I'm vegan and a cook and will be seeing if I can order some on my boss's dime to play with. I'll be posting reports if I can make it happen. This is a very interesting food to me.

[-] Moonworm@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago
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[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 9 months ago
[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So is there any data on its nutrition cause all I can find are websites written by robots talking about it

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there was an increased breaking force as the huitlacoche content increased, and no significant increase in protein, lipids, and moisture content was observed by adding huitlacoche flour to tortilla chips

huitlacoche has almost all essential amino acids, being the most abundant in lysine, glycine, and leucine

https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/28/11/4415

[-] peeonyou@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

beep bop boop i am a computer with a phd beep beep boop i am very smart boop beep bop

[-] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

How does it have all amino acids present but no increase in protein?

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

ALMOST all. So I'm not really sure if its amino acid profile is that much better than corn.

[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

I've had this stuff a few times. It's fucking great.

[-] Blep@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Sure id try it. Probably better than mushrooms anyway

[-] operacion_ogro@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago
[-] ToxicDivinity@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago
[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Fun Fact: Hoy se casó el huitlacoche con una urraca famosa 🐦‍⬛

[-] DivineChaos100@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

Someone should photoshop one on McCains head.

[-] NewAcctWhoDis@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

I had some of this at a Mexican street festival, really good.

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