To think this was an incredibly pretentious thing to say?

[Liger123]

I was texting someone over the weekend and they told me they were cooking a dish that involved "Paris" mushrooms amongst other ingredients. I was a bit embarrassed that I had not heard of them (I consider myself a good cook and enjoy using unusual ingredients) so I googled them straight away...

Turns out they are bog standard white mushrooms! I have never before heard them be referred to in this way- not even Waitrose calls them that.

I'm probably making a big deal over nothing but it gave me a giggle. It's even worse than saying vine tomatoes (ffs, all tomatoes come from a vine). Has anyone heard of this name and AIBU to think it was a wee bit pretentious?

Is the person not from the UK?

Had a google myself and it's not a normal mushroom at all

Ever tried a ‘champignon de Paris‘? The real one– cultivated in abundance and almost exclusively once upon a time in the catacombs of Paris?

Having lost its roots, more commonly known to the rest of the world today as a ‘button mushroom’, which we all enjoy on occasion with our meals, perhaps stirred into a risotto; the real champignon de Paris has become a bit of a gastronomic legend.

That's from an excellent blog...a well researched one with many followers.

He is from the UK- sorry should have mentioned that in my OP

Oh did he mean Champignons de Paris?

Thanks for the link winnibago

I'm confused now though- www.sciencedaily.com/articles/b/button_mushroom.htm

This link says they they are called champignon de Paris in France, but they are the same as our "table mushrooms" or "button" mushrooms. So what's so special about them?

Anyway, now I'm properly intrigued- does anyone know where to buy them?

does anyone know where to buy them

France?

ObfusKate I asked him what he would think of if I said Paris mushrooms, and he immediately said "little white button field mushrooms
Well surely your DP can make tahini for you

Maybe that's it Kate. At least I've learnt something now .

link to blog mentioning last mushroom farms of the Paris Catacombs

Fab blog by the way.

Meh, Paris mushrooms. We have Agaricus bisporus (bispori?) in our house...

yep, just Wiki-ed it

It's what button mushrooms are called in France.

Aldi get "specialist" mushrooms in, perhaps he's been experimenting.

I'm Vegan and have been surprised that you can really notice the difference, even if using herbs etc.

We're all becoming posh, thanks to Aldi.

Plain ordinary button mushrooms.

But then I have cookbooks in actual French . After I've been looking at it for a while I start to think of things in the French word and forget the English