Tomatoes and watermelon are both berries.
Strawberries are not berries.
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Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 19 hours agoIntelligence is knowing that a tomato is technically a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in Fruit Salad
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
rowansprig@leminal.space 18 hours ago
Wisdom is understanding that all word categories are largely arbitrary, based on the distinctions which are needing to be made at any one time, and thus to apply the scientific, botanical definition of “fruit” to a general culinary context is foolish.