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Halloween Botany (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

wait until you hear about vegetables

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes you feel like a peanut is not a nut!

Sometimes you don't!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

Bad practice, picking generic terms to define differently.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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 that plant structure something in Latin, ffs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

"Weather" is a nice ultimate touch

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Scary-berry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Berry Wight

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