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The thing is too that mushrooms don't even cook like vegetables or even like a protein or anything. So not only are they not botanically vegetables, they aren't even culinarily vegetables either.
Also if you don't like mushrooms because of the texture, you're probably cooking your mushrooms wrong.
I think mushrooms get a bad rap. People talk about the dirt they're in being grown in feces, like it's any different than every other crop that's grown. Potatoes are grown up close and personal in soil too and soil isn't clean :)
We might find there's a flavor component like cilantro that some can taste. Or maybe they just don't like the idea of the grown in soil and hard to clean, or maybe they don't like that we're eating the repuductive organs.
my brother-in-law hates them, but loves my mashed potato dish that loaded down. I just reduce mushrooms, garlic, and onions in butter until they're about to start to get firm then blitz them to slightly chunky gravy, stir that back into refrigerated looosely smashed potatoes, with some soft butter and a little chicken bone broth. When i'm done the flavor is still there, but it's a background note to the potato/butter/chicken
I just think mushrooms taste like shit, meh at best, not a texture thing.
I mean there's only hundreds of them, you have tried them all right?
It's like saying I don't like all meat because you dislike snake jerky.
Is that just the normal ones you find at the grocery store, or have you tried other types? I think oyster mushrooms are really good when you fry them until they are crispy. Lion's mane is really good too, I like to make vegan pulled pork with them. The flavor of some foraged ones are also amazing like chantarell and black trumpets. Chicken of the woods also tastes and kinda feels like lemony dry chicken. There's soooo many great mushrooms
Have tried all the ones you mentioned and many more over my years, I grew up amongst old world hippies, have eaten many a mushroom, wish I had the taste for them, just don't really. Some are def better than others, but overall I find them very meh
Morels are pretty good too. My grandma used to deep fry them.