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[โ€“] Meron35 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Humans: ๐Ÿคฎ

Human genitalia: ๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ’จ๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿคค

[โ€“] Ultraviolet 33 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

"Why do we eat the fungi that taste good and not the ones that give you explosive diarrhea?"

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The Roquefort (French blue cheese) is made from the mold that grows on rye bread.

So even the moldy bread, in the right condition, can become a delicacy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

lactobacillus is everywhere. Truly the king of kings.

[โ€“] AgentOrangesicle 2 points 1 hour ago

Yo, thank you to yogurt, sourdough, and various fermented beverages. Bless.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

On typing this out, I'm suddenly concerned about this being offensive or blatantly false. I never applied critical thought to the story before, as I'm pretty sure I was told it as a relatively young, and more relevantly gullible, man.

Is it true that this mold played a role in the "witches ride broomsticks" stereotype?

edit: Removed redundant word.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

It sounds like a few different things got mashed together there. Ergot is a hallucinogenic fungus that grows on rye, and is speculated to be the cause of some of the witch panics. It's not the same fungus found in Roquefort, but it is what they use to make LSD.

Witches flying is hypothesized to be entheogen use, since a common side effect is feelings of floating, flying, or otherwise 'being high'.

[โ€“] AgentOrangesicle 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The fungus you're thinking of is likely ergot, because it shows up in pretty large volume in batches of rye.

In processing, it ends up as a dark purple/black dried up mass that assumes kinda a crescent shape. Mills will run a batch of rye through a color-sorter - a bunch of times consecutively - to reduce the amount of ergot in the batch before milling.

You can technically refine it into LSD, but if you screw up, you can kill people. (Morning Glories are the preferred method).

The number of 55-gallon drums of ergot I've disposed of, though... It's difficult not to identify with Walter White and wonder... "what if?"

[โ€“] ZeffSyde 2 points 1 hour ago

Iirc the psychoactive compound in ergot/morning glories is LSA, which is similar, but different from LSD. LSD is a refined version of LSA.

[โ€“] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Some moulds are totally fine, see blue cheese. Some mycelium schlongs are dangerous, see death caps.

[โ€“] ZILtoid1991 2 points 1 hour ago

You can also put mold on meat. Lot trickier, but the famous Hungarian salami Tรฉliszalรกmi (Winter Salami) is done like that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

See also other soft cheeses like brie

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 23 hours ago

"Mycelium schlong"

Linguistic creativity at its best.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait I thought mushrooms were the flowers... Or are you telling me that flowers are also genitals??!! ๐Ÿ’ฅ

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Flowers are flowers genitals as well.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

So they're manspreading

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep lol just wait till you find out what pollen is analogous too lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

So bees are slutty sex pests and fly around covered in plant cum...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

brb, i have a fursona to make

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 23 hours ago

Yes... But technically they're performing In Bee-tro fertilization (IBF) .... I'll show myself out

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Ha! I read that they're loyal to their favourite flower... Fetish?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

If the french eat frogs that's fine, but when the south Americans do it everyone loses their minds.

(Poison dart frogs)

[โ€“] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago (4 children)

No one:

Everyone: adds a pointless โ€œNo one:โ€ above perfectly valid memes

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

POV: Someone added a useless "no one" to their meme

[โ€“] Ironfacebuster 5 points 21 hours ago

POV: you're the other person watching someone else do the action being described

[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And on top of that, a pointless Twitter comment.

I swear, every meme nowadays is three levels of reaction deep.

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[โ€“] MTK 44 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Both are pictures of genitalia, one of them is just really really small, microscopic even, so you are being very insensitive towards the microscopic genitalia.

[โ€“] Nfamwap 5 points 15 hours ago

I feel seen

[โ€“] Wetstew 8 points 22 hours ago

It doesn't need to be big to do it's job!๐Ÿ˜ก

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I prefer calling it flowers than genitallia

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago

Some women also call it their flowers and yeah I go down on flowers. :finger-guns:

[โ€“] herrwoland 70 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"why is that we eat the fruit and not the tree?"

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 5 points 19 hours ago

Maple syrup

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Why apple but not apple seed

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

i eat the apple seeds, coward

dies

[โ€“] [email protected] 190 points 1 day ago (12 children)

99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death. The remaining 1% tastes good with butter.

[โ€“] then_three_more 94 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Not quiet

98.99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death, 1% tastes good with butter. The the remaining 0.01% is estimated to have saved over half a billion lives.

[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And 0.00001% makes me see and feel funny things

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

More of them do that, but only once.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Most molds are about as closely related to mushrooms as flatworms are to humans

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