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Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Philosophy is wondering if that means ketchup is a smoothie.

@sflorg

"Irony is Al Gore ending up with the Heinz fortune" - the dead and spinning Senator John Heinz

@sflorg Charisma is being able to sell ketchup as a smoothie
@sflorg the Ronald Reagan administration had something to say about ketchup counting as a vegetable…
@sflorg Does that mean that a vanilla soy latte is a three bean soup?
@sflorg Or, alternatively, knowledge is knowing that botanists consider a tomato a fruit. Wisdom is knowing when the botanical classification of fruits is a relevant system in the context of preparing food.
@invisv @sflorg Vegetables are just a social construct.
@sflorg Chilies are also fruits. Chunky salsa is fruit salad.
@sflorg Courage is being able to admit that tomatos are terrible.
@sflorg maybe this means I can be good at philosophy since I did figure out ketchup makes a terrible smoothie.🤔
@annietime @sflorg perhaps you used the wrong brand...
@sflorg pendantry is suggesting it's a coulis.
@sflorg
Knowledge is always fun to talk to at parties.
Wisdom is the DJ.
Philosophy is out parking the cars, and he's lucky we even let him do that.
@sflorg This. This really needs to be carved in stone somewhere. 💯
@sflorg philosophy is reasoning that all seeded vegetables are fruits and the vegetable/fruit divide is merely a conceptual dichotomy, not an actual one
@sflorg overheard a mom talking to a kid recently: "is banana a fruit?"
Next thing I heard clearly was "oh it's tomato". Can only assume she was trying to tell her kids that bananas were vegetables.
@geth
Bananas are confusing. . .
it's actually an herb distantly related to ginger, but it does have seeds. . . its a fruit in need of therapy. 😁
@sflorg lol. I'm 99% sure this woman didn't have such a deeper understanding
@sflorg watch this wisdom guy! Somebody once put mango in my (regular) salad and I was over the moon about it.
@rood
Just as bad as putting pineapple on a pizza. . .
@sflorg yeah, you got me. I love Hawaiian food.
@sflorg Pedantry is pointing out that fruits used for food *are* vegetables.
@sflorg between knowledge and wisdom is intelligence, which is your ability to learn how to make a fruit salad.