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> <lol>

Why? Is it *THAT* funny that you laughed out loud?

> No, I KNEW that they were a dried mushroom/fungus, just not one I
> was familiar with on the usual store bought edibles... Sometimes the
> orientals will not call something by the same name that we do!

> Even the dried Shitakes are not labeled "Shitakes".
> Fortunately, I was able to recognize those as such.

Most of them don't originate in Japan. Just as we've anglicised the
French cèpe to cep, but if they are packed in Italy, you'll find them
called porcini.

It doesn't always work so smoothly: in Britain the girolle (Cantharellus
cibarius) has been called chanterelle, whereas the true chanterelle
(Cantharellus infundibuloformis) doesn't have a common name AFAIK.

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