lumpenproletariat@quokk.au to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 年前TIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbsen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1483file-text
arrow-up1483external-linkTIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbsen.wikipedia.orglumpenproletariat@quokk.au to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 年前message-square61fedilinkfile-text
Banana trees are made up of giant leaves, not a trunk. So they’re more like a giant onion instead of a tree.
minus-squareScoobyDope@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 年前I’ve gone down the rabbit hole. Depending on culinary, scientific, or horticulture, nobody agrees on what things are classified as.
minus-squaresik0fewl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 年前Exactly? Sorry, nerds ruined this one. You know what a fruit and a vegetable are. It has nothing to do where the seeds are. Botanists don’t get to change the English language. Like everything else in English, you’ll figure it out from context.
minus-squareBarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·1 年前Vegetables don’t exist botanically and fruit has a very different meaning in a botanical context when compared to the culinary definition
minus-squareniartenyaw@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 年前Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
minus-squareDefault_Defect@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 年前Salsa is a tomato based fruit salad. (I don’t take credit for this, I read it somewhere)
minus-squareResonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 年前You can still consider roots, stems, and leaves as vegetables. Of course you have to be more stringent with fruits, and nuts/seeds imo are in a category of their own.
minus-squareprotist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 年前We’re not talking about whether something is a fruit or a vegetable lmao This is about what kind of fruit something is, e.g. a berry vs a drupe
I’ve gone down the rabbit hole. Depending on culinary, scientific, or horticulture, nobody agrees on what things are classified as.
Exactly? Sorry, nerds ruined this one.
You know what a fruit and a vegetable are. It has nothing to do where the seeds are. Botanists don’t get to change the English language.
Like everything else in English, you’ll figure it out from context.
Vegetables don’t exist botanically and fruit has a very different meaning in a botanical context when compared to the culinary definition
Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Salsa is a tomato based fruit salad. (I don’t take credit for this, I read it somewhere)
You can still consider roots, stems, and leaves as vegetables.
Of course you have to be more stringent with fruits, and nuts/seeds imo are in a category of their own.
We’re not talking about whether something is a fruit or a vegetable lmao
This is about what kind of fruit something is, e.g. a berry vs a drupe