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People Are Just Realising Button Mushrooms Are The 'Wrong Colour', And I Had No Idea

People Are Just Realising Button Mushrooms Are The 'Wrong Colour', And I Had No Idea
Button mushroomsI’m surprised by a lot of seemingly ordinary facts, like why sleeve buttons exist and what the “most complex” word in the English language is considered to be. So you’d best believe I’m a regular peruser of Reddit’s r/todayilearned (TIL), where netizens share the mildly interesting scraps of trivia they, well... learned, today. For site user u/amateurfunk, a recent example involved the colour of button mushrooms (also known as “champignon mushrooms”). “TIL that champignon mushrooms were originally all light brown in colour,” they wrote.But is that true?Why are button mushrooms white? According to the Mycological Society of San Francisco (MSSF), yup, the common mushroom (sometimes called a “white button” variety) actually used to be brown.The species was first grown on horse manure in 18th-century France, the MSSF explained. It is still often grown this way because the species thrives in nitrogen-rich environments (oh!). But in 1926, the MSSF continued, “a Pennsylvania mushroom farmer found a clump of [button mushrooms] with white caps in his mushroom bed”. They then bred the mutates species, and now, “most of the cream-coloured store mushrooms we see today are products of this chance observation”. And here’s a fact that shook me: button, cremini, and portobello mushrooms are actually just the same species of fungi at different stages of development. This species, Agaricus bisporum, increases in flavour and deepens in colour as it ages. Button is the mildest and palest variety: its very subtle taste may have made it the most popular kind on our shelves.People were as surprised as I was to learn the infoReplying to the original post, Redditor u/diabloman8890 joked that the pale, creamy version we’re all used to counts as “Teenage mutant inbred mushrooms”. “One mutation in 192[6] and now it’s the default, nature’s marketing win,” u/bebleich marvelled. But u/Preeng was a little less impressed, commenting: “And nothing new since then? Not a blue one or a red one? Lame.” Ultimately, though, as u/DConstructed pointed out, ”[Once] you cook them, they’re all brown anyway.” Related...I Just Learned Why I Have An 'Innie' Belly Button, And I'm HorrifiedI Just Realised What CAPTCHA Really Stands For, And It's So Smart17 Of The Best Free Internet Recipes Home Cooks Swear By

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