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Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • halykthered@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I appreciate the skittles reference

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      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is it a skittles reference or is it a reference to purple not being an actual color and thus not a part of the rainbow?

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    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seeing the creator writing “actually” instead of “oh yeah?”

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  • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This feels like a case where botanical science should just have picked a different name. If you invalidate everything people think of as a berry and then tell them a dozen things that are clearly not berries are, in fact, berries, you’re just making the word berry meaningless.

    Berry means a tiny, usually sweet, fruit-like growth from a plant. The kind that is usually picked in bunches. The kind that you use to make smoothies. That’s a berry.

    Botany did us all a disservice by choosing the word “berry” to mean “a specific thing which invalidates everything you think is a berry.” Just call it something in latin ffs.

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    • JayObey711@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well cooking terms and botany terms are not the same. Any non reproductive part of a plant is vegetable. But in cooking we have a completely different idea of what vegetables are. This really doesn’t matter because most people are not botanists and those who are probably know the terms. The only people that care are quirky internet people with debates about weather or not potato salad should be considered a cake or something.

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      • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Weather” is a nice ultimate touch

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    • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They did. It’s Baca. Which means berry. Or maybe cow. Naming stuff is hard

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      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Naming would be easier if we collectively review the names every few years.

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    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

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      • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Knowledge is knowing the common definition of fruit doesn’t include tomato.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s because the scientific definition of berries has little in common with the colloquial one. That doesn’t make either wrong, they are just used in different contexts

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We really should rename botanical berries to something else.

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      • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The thing is, there is for sure some Latin technical term that you can use. And it’s still close enough to berries to call them that.

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  • TotalFat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sometimes you feel like a peanut is not a nut!

    Sometimes you don’t!

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve willfully disregarded botanical terminology every since I learned it.

      Their fault for picking generic terms to define differently.

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  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    but what about boo-berry?

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah! A person of rare and refined taste!

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  • Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Scary-berry

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    • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Berry Wight

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  • vale@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    wait until you hear about vegetables

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just happened last week.

      Me: “I don’t even want to get started about vegetables. We’ll go into it for hours.”

      Them: “Wait what?”

      (Proceeds to go into a long conversation for hours)

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  • TheAmishMan@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pumpkin pie also rarely is made with pumpkin, it’s usually squash

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    • toast@retrolemmy.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pumpkin pie is always made with squash. Many times those squash are pumpkins

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    • sconniecrow@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pumpkin is a squash

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    • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Having made pumpkin pies for decades, this is true. Pumpkin is a squash.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pumpkin pie is gross. Apple is the superior turkey-day pie.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What?

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • FierySpectre@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Botanically speaking they are correct.

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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How is a pumpkin a berry?

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What about what?

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      • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The post probably.

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  • WhyFlip@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TIL, wow. I mean, to be fair, “berry” is in the damn name, so I never questioned it.

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    • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      These are lies! This is pumpkin propaganda, spread by the spirit of Halloween.

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