If teams of porcini, chanterelle, shitake, portabella and morel played some kind of Europe wide competition would it be called the UEFA Champignons League?
May 23, 2008...1:45 am
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May 25, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Haha!
I assume the “F” would stand for “Fungi”.