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[–] [email protected] 194 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 96 points 4 weeks ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And 0.00001% makes me see and feel funny things

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 weeks ago

More of them do that, but only once.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the antibiotics also taste good with butter.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

What doesn't taste good with butter?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Kale, raw fresh fruit, sushi.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, so there are 3 options- discomfort, death, and nutrition. Therefore, every time you eat a fungus, you have a 1/3 chance of dying. Thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

True; some mold is actually medicine. Therefore you only have 1/4 chance of dying.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

1/5, some are hallucinogens

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah? Then successfully explain how statistics work, smart guy. But I warn you, there’s a 50% chance you’ll fail.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Or when growing in cheese.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

Cheese also tastes good with butter.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

No one:

Everyone: adds a pointless “No one:” above perfectly valid memes

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And on top of that, a pointless Twitter comment.

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

But how will i drive engagement to my shitter page if i don't slap my username on every meme I find?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] the_artic_one 97 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to be confused with ringworms which are, in fact, a mold.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago

"Mycelium schlong"

Linguistic creativity at its best.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoa there... We eat mold too if they're the right type and on the right things.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 weeks ago

Blue cheese would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 weeks ago

This bacterium gives me the sniffles. This other bacterium liquefies and eats my muscles. But if I don't have enough of this other bacterium in me, I get violent explosive shits??

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 weeks ago (9 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.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Humans: 🤮

Human genitalia: 🍆💨👃🤤

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Cheese and yoghurt enter the chat.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

laughs in alcohol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

the difference between eating mushrooms and eating mold is the difference between oral sex and vore

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Kombucha and sourdough bread have now entered the chat.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

basically the same thing with men

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 weeks ago

Not a big fan of male genitalia tbh

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Srsly? It's pretty simple - some forms of mold are delicious and others aren't.

Here's another mystery to ponder: Why do people generally love having sex but hate doing housework that involves the same amount of effort? Have fun.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

There's housework that involves lying down while someone else puts in all the effort?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (10 children)

.....is bread mold harmful to eat?

EDIT: Still have not gotten a wholly confirmed answer lol

[–] natecox 10 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Fuck, I remember Gumby. What happened to that guy?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago

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

(Poison dart frogs)

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