Oh, now i get it! "Peanuts" is because they are nuts inside a pod-like thing, just like peas!

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s because the pea is stored in the nuts.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s SCIENCE

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They’re not nuts that resemble peas, they’re peas that resemble nuts.

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  • Metostopholes@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nutpeas.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Charlie Brown saying “good grief”

  (I was very confused by the thread title)

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  • misterdoctor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same. I was over here thinking “is the world we live in just a closed pod, are we alone in here?” like it was maybe really deep and inspiring

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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They are more “pea” than “nut”, though. They are a legume.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well, pineapple aren’t apples and starfishes aren’t even fish, so…

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pen. Pineapple. Apple. Pen.

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    • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When literally every other language said “ananas”, English panicked and mentally combined the concept of a pinecone and a freakin’ apple

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  • judgyweevil@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    By that logic, pea should be called peapeapeapeapeapeapea

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s a type of pea which is called “Kiechererbse” in German. “Erbse” is the German word for pea. And “Kiecher” is the old German word for pea.

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• tkw8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think they’re actually legumes, not nuts.

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If you can find some that are not roasted, this actually becomes quite obvious. They do taste a lot like peas.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    3rd rock from the sun did a whole episode on this, starring the woman who played Roseannes sister as Dick’s new love interest.

    25 years later, and I still pronounce legume the way they did in that episode as I recite this fact.

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• logos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  English is my 1st language and I didn’t realize this until you just pointed it out.

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• Bo7a@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Get an uncooked one and eat it. It tastes like peas.

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