Strawberries are nuts 🍓

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• meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Strawberry seeds are designed by a malevolent god to stick perfectly in human front teeth.

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  • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Raspberry seeds make fun of strawberry seeds.

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    • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have a chia seed from 1973 in the back of my mouth.

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are made to stay a long time in hosts so that they can spread farther

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  strawberries are accessory fruits, not nuts.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But they’re covered in nuts

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    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Kinda like your mom last night

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  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …which is exactly what the third comment is saying

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you took all the seeds off a strawberry, it’d still be a strawberry. A bowl full of strawberry nuts is not a bowl of strawberries.

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  • chetradley@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Achenes are not nuts.

  (1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.

  (2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).

  www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…/achene

  i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.

  ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.

  courses.botany.wisc.edu/…/LabWK03Fruitkey.html

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  • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, even if they were, it wouldn’t make the strawberry a nut. It would make it covered in nuts.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thank you! 👏

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  • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels

    It is strictly only applied to ones with one carpel, but is used anyway to refer to ones with two carpels? That’s not confusing at all

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• shoki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why is microsoft from Germany writing in English? Why don’t they just post it on their mein Account which actually has a primarely English-speaking audience?

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  • f314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The original post (not shown in the screenshot) is from PBS, that’s why it says “Author” by their name. If it was in English (likely) it makes sense to answer in English as well.

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    • shoki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok, the original post by PBS is just cropped out, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation

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• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To me arguing over which fruit belongs in which category is a prime example of people arguing over shadows in Plato’s cave. Not that it’s a waste of time or anything but sometimes people act like tomatoes won’t grow if you call them vegetables. Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature rather than discovering an inherent, pre-existing system.

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature

    The core of the matter is that we have multiple, mutually incompatible schemes sharing in part the same terminology. Biology is not cooking, both fields care about vastly different things thus the categorisation scheme is different, that’s the end of it. Culinarily, tomatoes have too much umami to be fruit. Botanically peppermint is an aromatic, I recommend you not put it into your soffritto.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, this is actually a perfect example of the arbitreity of mapping systems!

      A looong time ago on reddit, I got into an argument with someone who was doing that thing where you confuse the map for the object itself. We were mostly talking about the chemistry table. But anyway, he just could not see how a change in motivation, that is what the map designer finds useful, could change how the map is arranged.

      I mean, I don’t think this would convince him: he would just say the culinary version isn’t real. But still, I really like it.

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn’t tell you anything about the “why” but it’s definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.

      I agree with what you mean in kind of a broad-strokes way, but as individuals our subjective experiences of flavors can vary pretty wildly. There’s genetics, neurology, age, and habit/experience that influence our taste in terms of actually sensing the chemicals. Then there’s what we see, taste, and smell just prior or during tasting that severely impact our interpretation of that chemical sense.

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    • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Botanically” “culinary” “terminology” “biology” and then you say umami seriously. Which is entirely made up.

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    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You never had tomato pie? It would likely change your idea of what too much savoriness is.

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  • cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I totally agree. It is completely nonsense to say. In other languages it is different. I just know some Spanish, but they don’t have a word for berries or nuts, it is all just fruit. (Forrest fruit for berries or dried fruit for nuts) but they don’t call potatoes vegetables, but “tuberculo”. Interesting difference, which i guess is because they have another climate and other plants.

    We do just call it a vegetable in my language.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bayas y nueces… Tubérculo is closer to the botanical definition because it is a tuber (storage organ) and not a fruit (like most vegetables). And I would think that tubérculo could be any tuber vegetable, not just papas/patatas

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  • anzo@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Technically, the pre-existing system could be evolutionary biology. I’m just saying that in some cases, a little bit of pedantry is enjoyable. It’s an acquired taste, maybe

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve heard every combination of <food> is actually <plant part> that any time anyone says this type of sentence, I just roll my eyes

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  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cabbages are actually tree trunks

    Raspberries are actually tubers

    Wheat is actually a berry

    And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

    Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Potatoes

      are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

      too.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s just meaningless factoids to me now.

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• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want to fill a spoon with strawberry seeds and see how it tastes

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  • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You gotta shell them first.

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• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what this nerd is saying is that we can milk a strawberry??

  Before the tech gets there, let’s compression some “art” on that subject?

  (For real, the seeds being nuts is a stretch)

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Strawberries do not have nipples. :(

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ofc not, don’t be silly.

      Nuts have nipples (where do you think almond milk comes from? Kids today have prob never seen an almond on a farm & think almond milk grows in the stores!).

      And if the seeds on the strawberries really are “nuts”, then we should be able to milk them.
      I see no flaw in my logic.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Strawberry cows

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    • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If strawberries do not have nipples, then where does strawberry milk come from?

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• queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like cashews!

  I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.

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  • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a legumes joke in there, but I dunno.

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Peanuts claim to be nuts, but they aren’t a legumtimate part of the family.

      I dunno.

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your post, but cashews are not drupes, not nuts. I don’t know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Strawberries sure as hell aren’t nuts either but we’re playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.

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  • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What is a tree?

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Although “tree” is a common word, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language.[1][2] In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground.

      Well damn, I guess strawberries can be trees and nuts.

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While peanuts are not nuts, but legumes.

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hereby christen thee, pealegumes.

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You need to put an exclamation mark (!) before you insert the image, like this:

    ![](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20111228.gif)

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks. I don’t comment much anymore.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like cashews?

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• arsCynic@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Microsoft feigning innocence by utilizing trivia to district us from their highly unethical business practices. Screw Microsoft. Use Linux 🐧.

  - -
  ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

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• ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is this why strawberries are common allergens? Like so much more common than other fruits?

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, this post is not even accurate.

    The substance in strawberries which causes allergic reactions is the fra a 1 protein which gives strawberries their red color. White strawberries have less of this protein and may be tolerated by people with this allergy, depending on individual sensitivity.

    www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0963996917304209

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is nuts!

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Strawberry nut flour - it’s gluten free!

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• asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if people are allergic to strawberries are just allergic to the seeds then

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• grandpaST@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Smelling roses has always reminded me of strawberries, although people think that’s strange. Taste and smell are connected and this explains it.

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