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Mushrooms are vegetables
Vegetables are part of a plant
Thus mushrooms are plant
Also I typed plant in the emoji search and got a mushroom 🍄
but mushrooms are not vegetables 🤷
You’re being logical, when nothing makes sense in English😛
This would fall under a more culinary vegetable label. Which is how most people interact with mushrooms.
Don’t believe me? Ask Harvard
https://nutritionsource.hsph.harvard.edu/food-features/mushrooms
Your quote says not a plant.
But it does say it is a vegetable, and a vegetable is part of a plant.
It’s like strawberries, they’re technically nuts but we call them fruit.
That’s syllogism.
Just because it is considered a vegetable in culinary terms, doesn’t make it a plant in biological classification.
Right, and just because it’s a fungi in biological classification doesn’t make it one in culinary terms.
Now I don’t know about your side of the world, here where I am 99% of people are not scientists. We use categories that we interact with daily, which is why mushroom is a plant rather than a niche definition.
In everyday conversation, mushroom is considered to be a vegetable. Even I would call that a vegetable. But I have never heard anyone (in everyday conversation) calling mushroom a plant.
By the way, strawberries are not technically nuts. They are actually considered an aggregate accessory fruit.
Yet a vegetable by definition is either a plant or part of a plant.
We didn't even know what fungi were a few hundred years ago without microbiology, they were always 'plants'. Plants are anything that sticks in the ground and grows, or vaguely follows the other socially acceptable combination of features such as leaves, etc.
Culinary categories mix biological types all the time - tomato (a fruit), mushroom (a fungus), seaweed (an algae) - yet all are treated as vegetables in cooking.
You're falling into a logic trap by using an overly narrow definition of 'vegetable'. A vegetable is best understood as a plant or plant-like food used in savoury dishes - and that includes mushrooms, even though they're not biologically plants.
Since 'vegetable' is a culinary term, not a scientific one, it’s not valid to reverse that and argue that mushrooms must be plants just because they're vegetables.