For Your Consideration: The Royal Trumpet Mushroom

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Simpler times
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The Royal Trumpet mushroom, also known as the King Oyster mushroom, has a “delicate, nutty flavor with firm texture and long shelf life,” according to Country Fresh Mushrooms, a retail cooperative of independent mushroom farms in the United States.

The Royal Trumpet mushroom also looks like a dick, perhaps even the president’s dick, which was described by Stormy Daniels in her forthcoming book as “smaller than average” and possessing a “huge mushroom head” much like “a toadstool.”

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“God, the one on the right even has a vein,” remarked contributor Esther Wang after reviewing an image of the mushroom. “Stop.” She was quick, however, to defend their culinary merit: “Those are delicious,” she explained. “Velvety texture.”

“Curved,” staff writer Ashley Reese observed.

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“I hate mushrooms. I hate this,” said features editor Stassa Edwards. “I hate you all.”