Giant fungus discovered in China

Now the Chinese just have to figure out some way to cook it and eat it.

As of 2007, the world's largest organism was classified as a Fungus, in Scientific American: "Next time you purchase white button mushrooms at the grocery store, just remember, they may be cute and bite-size but they have a relative out west that occupies some 2,384 acres (965 hectares) of soil in Oregon's Blue Mountains. Put another way, this humongous fungus would encompass 1,665 football fields, or nearly four square miles (10 square kilometers) of turf." More from Scientific American: "The discovery of this giant Armillaria ostoyae in 1998 heralded a new record holder for the title of the ... [More]

China is awesome!!! (Info gained solely from Dynasty Warriors 2-7 PS2 & PS3 respectively)

China is awesome!!! (Info gained solely from Dynasty Warriors 2-7 PS2 & PS3 respectively) If it wasn't for the political situation in China I'd love to tour that country tbh. I've always admired their cuisine, their extremely varied scenery, their history, and how they had a very highly developed society over two millennia ago.

If it wasn't for the political situation in China I'd love to tour that country tbh. I've always admired their cuisine, their extremely varied scenery, their history, and how they had a very highly developed society over two millennia ago. Their cuisine... that's means cooking/frying anything that's too slow to run away. If you ever want to go watch that giant fungus, then you beter forget about it. They will have eaten it long before you arrive.

Their cuisine... that's means cooking/frying anything that's too slow to run away. If you ever want to go watch that giant fungus, then you beter forget about it. They will have eaten it long before you arrive. Actually, for a very long time it was very dangerous in China to express opinions that whoever in government didn't approve of (and actually still is) and so poetry and painting and so on was a risky subject, so many people turned to things like origami and cooking, and they developed a very impressive culinary paradigm I guess you could call it, where food should please both the eyes a... [More]

from waht ran said without china where would gordan ramse/ jamie oliver be? and what about masterchef? lol we would probably be eating well tasting but ugly looking brown sludge