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The other side of this term is that the banana is the largest herb; the banana tree is the tallest plant that doesn’t produce wood

Of course mixing up culinary and botany meanings deliberately is dumb and leads to people saying things like “a tomato is a fruit” and “a strawberry isn’t a berry” those people can go produce their own wood if you know what I mean

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Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
A strawberry isn’t a berry. It’s just small and has it in the name. It doesn’t even look like a berry.

Also a banana isn’t an herb. Just the banana tree is. The banana is a berry.

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- btsax@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  ugh
  
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  - RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    …bananas are not herbs, dude. You don’t dry a banana and mix it into other food. It’s a fruit. You pick it, and eat it.
    
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    btsax@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    congrats on being the millionth person in this thread including the original artist to not know that words can have one meaning in a scientific context and another different meaning in a culinary context
    
    here’s some more that will blow your mind, peanuts aren’t nuts, peanut butter isn’t butter, starfish aren’t fish, wow much learn
    
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  - jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    We did it, Lemmy.
    
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    zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
    
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- Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  How do strawberries not look like berries to you?
  
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  - Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Berries are supposed to be bulbous and smooth. The only berry I can come up with that kinda has strawberry features is a raspberry because it’s more squishy. But even then, it has a lot of the little balls, like a blackberry. Strawberries just don’t look like a berry.
    
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    Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Bayberries/waxberries aren’t really smootth, and Yewberries aren’t very bulbous.
    
    Haskap berries are lumpy and mealy, are they not berries?
    
    Do groundcherries count with their paper husk? Tomatillos? Cherry Tomatos?
    
    Are cherries berries? Rose hips?
    
    Cherry chili peppers are bulbous and smooth, are they berries?
    
    Raspberries and blackberries often have little hairs growing off of each fruit, does that mean they’re not smooth? If hair is ok, kiwifruit are bulbous, but hariy.
    
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