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AVMA Take 2
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Yes, it's another round of that classic guessing game - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Abstract [or any combination thereof]. This effort - '03/'04 should address any queries, but then again, may just serve to confuse and baffle which some might say is the point of the game. Patience, integrity and a decent search engine may be useful ....
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Is it "Walking in the Air" sung by Aled Jones?
Is it time to start a new game?
Are they Roman?
As ZK is away in Rome on a student jolly, would someone like to step into the breech wilth an alternative AVMA?
Inkspot] Me, Raak and Darren have all had recent goes - why don't you do it?
Since Inkspot hasn't stepped up to the challenge, and since I handed one over earlier, here's a new one. It is:

VEGETABLE
Is it made from more than one vegetable?
Well jumped in CdM...on with the game.
Is it normally eaten by humans?
Is it processed?
[Inkspot] Made from more than one vegetable? - No
[Rosie] Normally eaten by humans? - Yes, in part
[Darren] Processed? - No.
A banana?
[Raak] Banana? - No
Is it a fruit?
A pomegranite?
[Irouleguy] Fruit? - No.
[Raak] Pomegranite? - No.
A cereal?
[Chalky] Cereal - No.
Is the 'normally eaten by humans' bit a seed?
(Long shot) - RHUBARB?
[Dujon] seed? - No
[Rosie] Rhubarb? - No.
Clarification: I go back and forth on whether I should say this is "normally" eaten by humans. Perhaps it is most accurate to say that part of this is sometimes eaten by humans, and that this is in no way unusual.
Is it grown on farms?
Is it eaten in all societies?
Is it a root crop?
Is it tobacco?
[Raak] Grown on farms? - No. (Although had you phrased the question differently I might have given a different answer.)
[Irouleguy] Eaten in all societies? - Strictly speaking no. However, to the best of my knowledge, all societies eat something somewhat similar to part of this thing.
[Inkspot] Root crop? - No.
[Chalky] Tobacco? - No.
Is it a liquid?
Is it grown in frames?
Is it a tree/s?
Is the part that is eaten a leaf?
Is the part that is eaten a stalk?
Is it a nut?
[Inkspot] Liquid? - No.
[Irouleguy] Grown in frames? - No.
[INJ] Part that's eaten = leaf? - No.
[INJ] Part that's eaten = stalk? - Part of the part that is eaten is a stalk.
[Raak] Nut? - No.
Is it a fungus? (if so I'll go for porcini/cèpe)
[INJ] Is it a fungus? - Yes.
[INJ] porcini/cepe? - No.
cinnamon?
[all] Cinnamon? - No. *points to last answer but one*
Is the answer the name of a specific mushroom?
Is it a generic mushroom?
[INJ] Name of specific mushroom? - No. (But had you phrased the question differently I might have given a different answer...)
[Raak] Generic mushroom? - No, I don't think so (although I am not exactly sure what you mean by a generic mushroom).
Is it a specific variety of mushroom?
[CdM] That answer hadn't been posted when I typed my question
[CdM] I just meant, is the answer "a mushroom".
A mushroom?
Is the answer the name of a specific fungus?
A toadstool?
[all] Specific variety of mushroom? - No, or at least not exactly, but see my answer to INJ below.
[Raak] A mushroom? - No.
[Raak] A mushroom? - Still no.
[INJ] Specific fungus? - It is a specific variety of fungus. However, it is not sufficient to identify the variety.
[INJ] A toadstool? - No.
Black truffles?
Magic mushrooms?
[Irouleguy] Black truffles? - No.
[Raak] Magic Mushrooms? - No.
Is it a specific fungus rather than a specific bit of a mushroom stalk?
Clumsy question - but having picked my way through your replies ..
Is this a fungus which people eat unknowingly (i.e. if they knew they'd rather not)?
No, I don't suck my toes. ;-)
[Chalky] Specific fungus? - It is a very specific fungus.
[Dujon] - Eat unknowingly? - No.
Yeast?
Does this specific fungus have anything to do with Edible Fungi?
That gigantic white truffle in the news recently that was exhibited for so long that it went off before it could be used?
[Chalky] Yeast? - No.
[Chalky] Edible Fungi? - I don't understand the question. Part of this specific fungus is edible, but that has already been established.
[Raak] Gigantic white truffle? - No, but a ripple of applause from the audience.
[Chalky] Just noticed that I missed a question of yours way back there -- back at a time when every time I tried to post there was another question. :-) Er, anyway, no, it isn't a tree.
Is it any sort of truffle or part thereof?
Not many edible fungi beyond mushrooms, toadstools, and truffles.
Hmmmmmm... I have tried to answer very carefully, but I think I have still ended up being misleading. The edible part is a specific variety of mushroom, but it is not strictly correct to describe the whole as a mushroom. The whole is a specific variety of fungus, but as I said before it is not sufficient to identify the variety.
Is it a mushroom that grows on some other type of fungus?
Would you find the edible part for sale in a supermarket?
[Raak] Continuing my clarification, the answer is a particular fungus, which has as its fruit (spore) an edible mushroom. I would guess that the mushroom is sold in some supermarkets, but I do not think it is commonly found for sale. (By the way, some of my reading has led me to the discovery that fungi are not necessarily classified as either animal or vegetable, but are a class on their own, so we may have to rename the game AVFMA.)
Oh, and it is highly unlikely that you or I would find the edible part for sale in a supermarket, but Dan or Dunx might.
[CdM] If you went down the AVFMA road, you'd have to add a couple of others to the list, too.
Does it grow in a mutually beneficial arrangement with conifers?
[flerdle] Mutually beneficial relationship with conifers? - Definitely not.
(But despite that, the audience applauds, somewhat confusedly.)
Would this be ingested as a medication rather than a food?
[Dujon] Medicine rather than food? - No.
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