Halloween Botany

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• halykthered@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I appreciate the skittles reference

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Weather” is a nice ultimate touch

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  • BossDj@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We really should rename botanical berries to something else.

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes you feel like a peanut is not a nut!

  Sometimes you don’t!

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  but what about boo-berry?

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah! A person of rare and refined taste!

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• Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Scary-berry

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  • I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Berry Wight

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• vale@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wait until you hear about vegetables

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • toast@retrolemmy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • sconniecrow@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pumpkin is a squash

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What?

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • FierySpectre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Botanically speaking they are correct.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How is a pumpkin a berry?

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What about what?

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The post probably.

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• WhyFlip@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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