White Gold (2015)

[wallflower]

https://story.californiasunday.com/mushroom-hunters-oregon-tokyo

[mchahn]

Why isn't something so valuable farmed? I have seen great mushroom farms in abandoned tunnels in Pennsylvania.

P.S. Great photos.

[yongjik → mchahn]

It's not for lack of trying. Whoever finds out how to farm these mushrooms will be filthy rich.

[mc32]

This is about a sought-after white mushroom, prized in Japan for infusing dishes with nuances flavors, but it hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber... Interesting none the less.

[kqr → mc32]

Also used for rhodiated or palladiated gold-as-in-the-element-aurum.

[mc32 → kqr]

Sure, I think that's more a literal meaning, rather than the metaphorical sense the article was going for. As a metaphor, it's more common and way longer associated with king cotton.

[ableal → mc32]

> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber

I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ) also misses the cotton reference.

It does exist abundantly, but seems mostly to be used in cotton producing countries ...

[kgwxd → mc32]

I thought it was going to be about cocain.

[sudouser → mc32]

thanks, reminded me of a quite funny old japanese show about how a family got one piece, and how prized it was, specially for the kid , who ends up eating it and not sharing a bit !

[nicheasta]

In the area that I live there are plenty of eatable mushrooms but sadly none like that. I wonder how it actually tastes but wouldn't ever pay so much for a mushroom