White Gold (2015)

Re:White Gold (2015) by mc32 on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:57AM (#17520614)

This is about a sought-after white mushroom, prized in Japan for infusing dishes with nuances flavors, but it hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber... Interesting none the less.

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Re:White Gold (2015) by kqr on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:28AM (#17520905)

Also used for rhodiated or palladiated gold-as-in-the-element-aurum.

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Re:White Gold (2015) by mc32 on Saturday July 14, 2018 @01:12AM (#17528944)

Sure, I think that's more a literal meaning, rather than the metaphorical sense the article was going for. As a metaphor, it's more common and way longer associated with king cotton.

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Re:White Gold (2015) by ableal on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:32AM (#17522002)

> hijacks a term that's been used since antiquity to refer to cotton fiber

I thought of the alloy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold - and the wiki disambiguation page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Gold ) also misses the cotton reference.

It does exist abundantly, but seems mostly to be used in cotton producing countries ...

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Re:White Gold (2015) by jasonkostempski on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:42AM (#17522041)

I thought it was going to be about cocain.

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Re:White Gold (2015) by sudouser on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:39AM (#17520742)

thanks, reminded me of a quite funny old japanese show about how a family got one piece, and how prized it was, specially for the kid , who ends up eating it and not sharing a bit !

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