Strawberry seeds are designed by a malevolent god to stick perfectly in human front teeth.
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Raspberry seeds make fun of strawberry seeds.
I have a chia seed from 1973 in the back of my mouth.
You celebrated 50 years together two years ago... Such a heartwarming story!
Keeps my mouth warm too
They are made to stay a long time in hosts so that they can spread farther
strawberries are accessory fruits, not nuts.
But they're covered in nuts
Kinda like your mom last night
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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).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/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.
https://courses.botany.wisc.edu/botany_400/Lab/LabWK03Fruitkey.html
Also, even if they were, it wouldn't make the strawberry a nut. It would make it covered in nuts.
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Why is microsoft from Germany writing in English? Why don't they just post it on their main Account which actually has a primarely English-speaking audience?
The original post (not shown in the screenshot) is from PBS, thatβs why it says βAuthorβ by their name. If it was in English (likely) it makes sense to answer in English as well.
Ok, the original post by PBS is just cropped out, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation
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.
Like at the end of the day itβs 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 any into your soffritto.
EDIT:
Tomato is also dominated by oxalic acid, not malic, citric, (typical fruit acids) or acetic (fermented/overripe). Oxalic acid is in parsley, chives, spinach, beans, lettuce, that kind of stuff. "It's sour" isn't sufficient to describe a taste profile, our tongues may not tell them apart but our noses definitely do.
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.
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.
I mean that's a pretty big difference right?
Like, the periodic tables mapping isn't arbitrary or alternate.
Like you can't actually map the periodic a different way and it's in a sense "self evident" in a way arbitrary mappings aren't.
The periodic table itself is a kind of proof of quantum theory, or at least, strong supporting evidence. While it can be displayed differently, actually couldn't be arranged differently and the things we know about physics hold true.
Ah, there he is!
Just kidding.
The extreme usefulness of the one periodic table as we know it is why this is so hard to talk about. Philosophically, it isn't any different: it is arranged by human values for human consumption. I think there is likely a strong reason that alien values would converge here, but that doesn't really affect its arbitreity. The elements don't have value unto themselves, they just are.
And there are plenty of different ways to arrange it. For one, if all you care about are the metals for some reason, you can arrange the nonmetals out of it completely. You could keep a linear, alphabetical list because whatever work you're doing is derived from chemistry but does not actually care about atomic values.
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I've heard every combination of "[food] is actually [plant part]" so any time anyone says this type of sentence, I just roll my eyes.
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.
Potatoes
are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings
too.
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I want to fill a spoon with strawberry seeds and see how it tastes
You gotta shell them first.
So what this nerd is saying is that we can milk a strawberry??
Before the tech gets there, let's commission some "art" on that subject?
(For real, the seeds being nuts is a stretch)
Strawberries do not have nipples. :(
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.
The real problem these days is with intensive almond farming. Almond tastes better from free range almonds, with space to graze in peace and calm between the bushes.
Have you heard of "bitter almonds"? Turns up in mystery novels. It's what you get from caged almonds raised on steroids.
I love it when activists save caged almonds & how their little faces light up when, for the first time in their nutty lives, they arent sucked on by a relentless machine.
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Like cashews!
I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.
Like, peanuts aren't actually nuts.
There's a legumes joke in there, but I dunno.
Peanuts claim to be nuts, but they aren't a legumtimate part of the taxonomy.
I dunno.
Ah, my favorite flavor enhancing chemical:
Monosodium Legumtimate.
Honest attempt. 7.5/10.
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You need to put an exclamation mark (!) before you insert the image, like this:
Thanks. I don't comment much anymore.
While peanuts are not nuts, but legumes.
I hereby christen thee, pealegumes.
Is this why strawberries are common allergens? Like so much more common than other fruits?
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Like cashews?
This is nuts!
Strawberry nut flour - it's gluten free!
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