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    FFTFY:

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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      Not fixed as ‘content not viewable in your region’

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        You need to be in a better region.

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          Don’t we all

      • Dave@lemmy.nz
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        Fixed now?

        mirror of of image from OP with "fucking" restored Screenshot of social media, maybe tumblr? Saying "Honestly bizarre that tomatoes get all the flack for not being a vegetable because they're technically a fruit when: A. There are a ton of fruits that get categorized as vegetables. Like this also applies to pumpkins, squashes, and cucumbers. B. The fucking mushrooms are standing there at the back of the crowd in this witch trial, trying to look inconspicuous because they got into the vegetable club with no fucking controversy, despite the fact they're not even plants.

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          Yes!

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        The fuck region are you in?

        • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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          UK

          • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            I can see it fine, also UK

      • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        VPNs are cheap

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    Vegetables aren’t real. They made up the classification just to sell things that aren’t fruits.

    • owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
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      Big Celery just trying to legitimize crunchy water

      • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social
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        I could go for some refreshingly crunchy big celery right now

        • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Maybe dipped in some oily legume seed paste that has a name including -nut but isn’t one

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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      Same with nuts. Botanically, not a thing.

      • BeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.world
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        johnny is human tho

    • HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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      Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally

    • HowAbt2day@futurology.today
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      Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally

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      Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally

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    I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.

    Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we’re at the point where “unalive” and “pdf file” are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.

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      It’s annoying that its driven by ad revenues, and made more dumb by the fact that if everyone can decode it, then they’re still advertising over sex and violence. So the whole endeavor is pointless.

      But I don’t think it will cause any harm. Humans have been using slang, code, and memetic language to obscure meaning from others and identify their in-crowds since the dawn of human language. Some of it is dumber than others, but it won’t cause any harm.

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      There is absolutely no chance that this idiotic self censorship can permanently damage human communication.

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      100% agree, we live in a 1984 age.

      Also, using stupid words such as unalive doesn’t make any sense because the algorithm of social media companies knows exactly what it means.

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        Its coming from Tiktok. Bytedance has heavy word censorship and if one of your comments or videos was flagged as inappropriate and had one of those words your account would be automatically suspended for review.

        So a lot of normal westerm words got flagged. Kill. Dead. Any word related to sex. Hole. (Lol) basically every curse word.

        Then there are gray words like Pedophile where people think it changes the algorithm to show your videos less if they contain them, but no one has any proof from what I can tell.

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        I use things like “he has chosen to meet his ancestors right then and there”

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      It’s also extremely weird because people often just default to the “hidden meaning” completely ignoring context. There were so many instances where I was being shouted at for writing “CP” on the Cyberpunk subreddit, it was just weird…

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    Yeah I knew mushrooms were shady shit since when they snuck in with the badgers. Nobody batted an eye back then and look at where we are now.

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      I always categorized them as a snake

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      Why you hatin’ on mushrooms? They’re a fungi, if you get to know 'em

    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
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      Big Mushroom is taking the slow play, and frankly, it’s impressive

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    It’s the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?

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      Still a fun observation in relation to mushrooms.

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    In terms of botany, a vegetable isn’t a thing (it’s a culinary term).

    Whereas a fruit has a specific botanical term (and a culinary term).

    Not everything is “one or the other”, some things are neither (Rhubarb), and some are both (tomato).

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      There certainly are feelings associated with the fact that we can analyze the DNA of rots

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    fucking fucking

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    Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.

    Vegetable only has a culinary definition.

    Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It’s like saying lobster is red meat using a scientific definition of red.

    But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, but far too sweet, too often consumed raw or minimally processed, and far too at home in a yoghurt to fit nicely into the group vegetable.

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      Rhubarb’s just sour celery

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      it becomes somewhat interesting when fruit is differently taxed then vegetables.

      As was the case in a Supreme Court Ruling:

      Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously held that tomatoes should be classified as vegetables rather than fruits for purposes of tariffs, imports and custom

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      But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.

      Oh boy, another reason to hate rhubarb.

      Also, you want a sweet vegetable? Sugar beet.

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        raw unprocessed sugar cane is delicious

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      Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.

      Most people don’t really understand how words work.

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        Vegetation. It’s right there in the root lol you’re 100% correct with people not getting how words work

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      THANK YOU

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      Having both definition of the same word that can be confused with each other is also silly, the culinary definition should find a new word.

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    The thing is too that mushrooms don’t even cook like vegetables or even like a protein or anything. So not only are they not botanically vegetables, they aren’t even culinarily vegetables either.

    Also if you don’t like mushrooms because of the texture, you’re probably cooking your mushrooms wrong.

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      I just think mushrooms taste like shit, meh at best, not a texture thing.

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        I mean there’s only hundreds of them, you have tried them all right?

        It’s like saying I don’t like all meat because you dislike snake jerky.

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        Is that just the normal ones you find at the grocery store, or have you tried other types? I think oyster mushrooms are really good when you fry them until they are crispy. Lion’s mane is really good too, I like to make vegan pulled pork with them. The flavor of some foraged ones are also amazing like chantarell and black trumpets. Chicken of the woods also tastes and kinda feels like lemony dry chicken. There’s soooo many great mushrooms

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          Have tried all the ones you mentioned and many more over my years, I grew up amongst old world hippies, have eaten many a mushroom, wish I had the taste for them, just don’t really. Some are def better than others, but overall I find them very meh

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          Morels are pretty good too. My grandma used to deep fry them.

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      Also if you don’t like mushrooms because of the texture,

      I think mushrooms get a bad rap. People talk about the dirt they’re in being grown in feces, like it’s any different than every other crop that’s grown. Potatoes are grown up close and personal in soil too and soil isn’t clean :)

      We might find there’s a flavor component like cilantro that some can taste. Or maybe they just don’t like the idea of the grown in soil and hard to clean, or maybe they don’t like that we’re eating the repuductive organs.

      my brother-in-law hates them, but loves my mashed potato dish that loaded down. I just reduce mushrooms, garlic, and onions in butter until they’re about to start to get firm then blitz them to slightly chunky gravy, stir that back into refrigerated looosely smashed potatoes, with some soft butter and a little chicken bone broth. When i’m done the flavor is still there, but it’s a background note to the potato/butter/chicken

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    I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn’t a veggie:

    > Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable

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      Rice, my favorite vegetable.

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        … Is it not?

        Being a grain (or even specifically a “Cereal grain”) doesn’t exclude it, see corn.

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      Gushers are vegetables, got it.

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      I mostly agree, but there’s a few holes in that flowchart:

      My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.

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        Rocks are vegetables nodnod

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      Sand has a lot of minerals in it. Probably the healthiest veggie of them all!

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      That’s why they call you the bread man.

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      Behold a vegetable

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        Ahh Diogenes the greatest philosopher

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      I also add: Does it taste good?

      I do this because of cranberries. I do not eat anything that you can make candles or soap from…

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    VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST

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    Fucking

    Fucking

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    Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.

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      That’s cool. I like that I’m sucking off cooked rudimentary peni.

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        As you should.

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      What an inspiration to us all

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    My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren’t real and all of them are just something else in reality.

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      You’re correct! “Vegetable” is a culinary term. “Fruit” is both botanical and culinary. The “tomato isn’t a fruit” nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits “grunkles” we wouldn’t have this problem.

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        All in favor of renaming botanical fruits to “gruntled”?

        Aye

        Edit: God damn you, autocorrect

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      https://www.reddit.com/r/dropout/comments/1crzui9/dropout_rising_vegetables_do_not_exist/

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