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WTF, a banana is a berry!!?

https://lemmy.world/post/43924302

Mar 6 at 3:41pmWeb
Show threadSpacePandaMar 6
Also so is squash lol
Show threadmnemonicmonkeysMar 6
And pumpkin, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini,…
Show threadTheAsianDonKnotsMar 6
Show threadbaconsundayMar 6
What keeps a peach from being a single-seed berry or from an avocado being a drupe?
Show threadkn33Mar 6
Yeah this doesn’t make any sense
Show threadexasperationMar 6

Wikipedia says some categorize avocadoes as drupes:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)

Berry (botany) - Wikipedia

Show threadwonderingwandererMar 6

Drupes have pits contained within a hard shell (I guess called an endocarp?).

Peach pits look like an almond inside of a walnut shell basically. Avocados just have a really large seed in direct contact with the buttery soft mesocarp.

I don’t know who decided to classify gourds, melons, and citrus fruits as berries, but I imagine they had mischief in mind…

Show threadKlearMar 6
Pretty fruity
Show threadrothaineMar 6
A pumpkin is a berry?!
Show threadsome_kind_of_guyMar 6
I guess so? Which I suppose means all the other gourds/squash/melons/cucumbers are too
Show threadDeaconMar 6
Man I am glad I tasted fruit before I read this.
Show threadtaiyangMar 6
Ah yes, my favorite berry… the avocado.
Show threadripcordMar 6
I enjoy a good pumpkin berry. Fresh from the vine.
Show threadwonderingwandererMar 6
An apple sounds much less appealing when you describe it as an indecent (achoo) swollen receptacle tissue with a soft mesocarp…
Show threadSwallows_DickMar 8
Chat is this real
Show threade8d79Mar 6
Aubergines, cucumbers, kiwi, and citrusfruit are botanical berries as well. The correct answer is that berry should be seen as a culinary term just like fruit and vegetable.
Show threadKlearMar 6
That’s nuts!
Show threadsome_kind_of_guyMar 6
Well ackthually… that’s a legume
Show threadnullMar 6
Berries aren’t berries. Vegetables aren’t real.
Show threadsamus12345Mar 6
Humans accidentally named blueberries correctly.
Show threadsomeguy3Mar 6
Now I need to know if BlackBerry is a berry.
Show threadRememberTheApollo_Mar 6
All could’ve been solved with some inclusivity, but nooo…
Show threadameancowMar 6
A lot of this would make a lot more sense to you guys if you saw these plants in their original, non-cultivated states. They don’t look anything like the shit in grocery stores.
Show threadripcordMar 6
Pictures?
Show threadWanderingThoughtsMar 6

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Show threadMulligrubsMar 6
Fruit is sweet, vegetables are savory, berries are what I declare to be a berry. Done and done
Show threadTheBlackLoungeMar 6

Most “fruit” are sweet because we made them so. And we did so with plenty of vegetables too.

Sweetest thing in my garden are tomatoes.

Show threadMulligrubsMar 6
Once you grow your own tomatoes, supermarket just won’t do. It’s a different world, we are tomato buddies
Show threadCortMar 6
I’m so excited to start planting; all the tomato seeds we planned last weekend have already germinated
Show threadNeatNitMar 6
Fish are fishy.
Show threadCarrotsHaveEarsMar 7
Mom’s spaghetti.
Show thread🍉 Albert 🍉Mar 6
Mushrooms in the vegetable section hoping no one calls them out
Show threadbunchberryMar 6
I don’t recognize scientific definitions in colloquial speech.
Show threadGeneral_EffortMar 6

I didn’t know plants have ovaries. Does that mean that strawberries are like an afterbirth? Are seedless fruit menstrual flow?

Maybe humans could evolve so that the bloody placenta attracts wolves who then raise the baby.

Show threadJackFrostNColaMar 6
How about this: mangrove trees give birth.
Show threadchonglibloodsportMar 6
You know that white stuff that the seeds attach to in chilis? That’s the placenta! It’s the spiciest part of the whole pepper!
Show threadOmnipitaphMar 7
I can’t tell if you’ve ruined chilies for me, or if something else is happening.
Show threadI Cast FistMar 8
At times like these I’m kinda ok with portuguese lacking a “proper” word for berry. “Bago” or “baga” isn’t really used, at least not in everyday life, everyone will always refer to them as fruits
Show threadHazmatasticMar 8
It’s the same as tomato being taxonomically a fruit. Taxonomically does not mean culinarily. Most people use culinary terms for these. Tomato is a vegetable. The first berry group is berries. Etc.