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Except that this idealized picture isn't quite true. There existed a mushroom hierarchy of mushrooms which paralelled paralleled the social hierarchyone: the few choice varieties were reserved for the nobility, while commoners had to content themselves with more or less edible, but certainly less flavourful, species. Mind you, the forest and everything one could find there, belonged to the lord. The peasants were usually allowed to obtain certain forest products, but they had to bring the better species of mushrooms as payment to the lord's estate. One of these species was obviously the penny bun, which explains why it's also called "king bolete" in English, ''"Herrenpilz"'' ("lord's mushroom") in German and ''"borowik szlachetny"'' ("noble mushroom") in Polish. What other mushrooms did the nobles call dibs on?