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When you cook mushrooms they usually turn soft and mushy, and very watery.
I looked up Google and here's what I found:
Question: What's the difference between a mushroom and a toadstool?
Answer: Nothing really, says Professor Jack Rogers, a mycologist. That means he studies fungi, which is what mushrooms are.
What Prof R means is there isn't any scientific difference between them. But people do sometimes refer to mushrooms you can eat as "mushrooms" and poisonous mushrooms as "toadstools."
By the way, a toadstool has nothing really to do with toads. It's just a fanciful term. You can imagine a toad sitting on a toadstool, but I doubt that you've ever seen one. Toadstools also used to be called toads' hats. Also, back in the Middle Ages, people thought toads were very poisonous. Although no one knows exactly where the word "toad" came from, Professor Rogers says "Tod" means death in German.
Also:
Poisonous mushrooms are often called toadstools, derived from the German “die Tode Stuhle” or "seats of death." Most characteristic of the toadstools are the death angels in the genus Amanita, which have wartlike scales on the cap.
Howzat for an answer – I love Google!!
And are you feeling better? I’m still recovering slowly…
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